Daniel Haier

April 9, 2003

U.S. Army Recruits Locals

By Daniel Haier

A computer screensaver behind Staff Sergeant Steven Mollnhauer depicts an endless line of animated U.S. Army paratroopers jumping rhythmically from a transport plane and descending onto unseen terrain.

April 8, 2003

Marine Gets Citizenship After Death

By Daniel Haier

When Filipino-born Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa, 33, died for the United States during combat in Iraq on March 27, he was not a U.S. citizen. By the time he is buried in Tracy, Calif., later this week, he will have become ...

April 4, 2003

Car Strikes Two Students

By Daniel Haier

Freshmen Rachelle Lieppman and Gabriella Ascione, both 18, were struck from behind at 10:30 p.m. while traveling southbound with four friends on Camino Corto toward Abrego Road.

April 3, 2003

County Project Smooths Way For Pedestrians

By Daniel Haier

everal hundred feet of Isla Vista sidewalks have recently been repaired to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act specifications and Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. drainage and safety guidelines.

April 2, 2003

Elderly Man Kills Wife, Calls 911

By Daniel Haier

Sheriff's deputies arrested an elderly Lompoc man Tuesday morning on suspicion of murdering his wife. Officers responded to the home of Eugene Carl Morgan, 77, after dispatch received information from a male caller who s...

March 31, 2003

Local Student Incurs Injury in DP Attack

By Daniel Haier

A Santa Barbara City College student suffered head injuries in an apparently unprovoked attack early Friday morning on Del Playa Drive. Ian Gililland, 20, was admitted to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital with several injur...

March 7, 2003

KCSB Sale Offers Sound Deals

By Daniel Haier

Staffers and disc jockeys from KCSB 91.9 FM carted hundreds of archaic, rejected or duplicate CDs and vinyl records from their collection out to Storke Plaza on Thursday and sold them at bargain prices.

March 4, 2003

New Computer Gaming Club Wants to Throw Large Parties

By Daniel Haier

A new campus club aims to bring real social interaction to the virtual world of Internet gaming. Glenn Wyatt and Michael Warren said they want to bring the large UCSB online gaming community together for social events a...

February 27, 2003

Bake Sale Bashes Affirmative Action

By Daniel Haier

On Wednesday, UC Berkeley's College Republicans held a bake sale, not to raise funds but, as is the trend these days, to raise awareness. It was an anti-affirmative action bake sale, one of several at college campuses ar...

February 25, 2003

UCSB Appoints New Director of Health, Safety Department

By Daniel Haier

After more than 25 years of service to the university, Larry Parsons has been appointed director of UCSB's Environmental Health and Safety Dept. EHS creates and implements emergency response and management plans in the e...

February 21, 2003

CalPIRG To Call On EPA to Clean Air

By Daniel Haier

Volunteers from the California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) will be providing cell phones in front of the UCen today for students to call the Environmental Protection Agency and voice their opposition to prop...

February 19, 2003

Mother’s Gift Memorializes Slain Children

By Daniel Haier

Last week, almost a year after her four children were murdered by her ex-husband while she was on a morning jog, Dr. Christine McFadden made a $250,000 donation for additional construction on the planned UC Merced librar...

February 19, 2003

Campus Doves Cry Out Against War

By Daniel Haier

An anti-war rally on the steps of Storke Plaza drew the presence and voices of 150 to 200 students, faculty and community members who echoed in unison, "The people united will never be defeated."

February 12, 2003

Friends Help Two Burned Out Freshmen

By Daniel Haier

Almost a month after flames gutted their Anacapa Hall dorm room, fund-raising efforts and sympathy have helped ease the disruption for freshmen Natasja Swartz and Alison Woods.

February 11, 2003

Biologists Study Parasites, Invaders

By Daniel Haier

All roommate jokes aside, UCSB researchers have determined that moving an animal to a non-native habitat decreases the number of parasites that species carries.

January 31, 2003

UCSB Runner Eyes Sea-to-Sea Bid

By Daniel Haier

When Peter Goren embarks this summer on a cross-country "journey run" from Sands Beach in Isla Vista to Sand Beach in Maine, he will have as many miles of pain, hardship, sweat and fatigue behind him as he will in front ...