She Said: Valentine’s Day is A Good Excuse for Chocolates and Sex

Ah, Valentine's Day. The sing-song-sweet sound of the romantic celebration's moniker drizzles down lovers' spines like chocolate on strawberries. Of all the holidays in the year, this one makes for th...
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Fire Alarm Empties North Hall

With the exception of a few careless students walking inside to empty classrooms, most people left North Hall on Thursday afternoon, as a 45-minute fire alarm caused the building's three wings to be e...
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Aslan, Miles To Address Understanding of Islam

Countering and perhaps shifting the paradigms that the Western world holds toward the Islamic world, religious scholar Reza Aslan will give a Santa Barbara audience this Sunday a closer look into the ...
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Surfrider Founder’s Lecture To Explore Ebbing Surf Values

This Sunday, the normally laid-back world of surfing will receive a scholarly critique and words of warning from one of its own members.
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Activist Gives Lecture Amid Protests

More than 100 students, faculty and community members - about 20 of them protesters - attended controversial academic and activist Ward Churchill's lecture in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. last nig...
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Governor’s Budget To Rescind UC Fee Hike

University of California and California State University students may not have to pay a several hundred dollar fee increase next school year, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to fund the systems wi...
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Setting Sail on a Swell Voyage

"I'm just looking forward to the first fight," says Liz Clark as she sits diagonally across from fellow UCSB graduates Shannon Switzer and Mark Schumacher on her 40-foot vessel, dubbed the Swell.
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Police Hold Student On Attempted Rape, Burglary Charges

UC Police Dept. officers arrested an 18-year-old male UCSB student early Saturday morning in connection with an attempted rape at a university residence hall.
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Local Students To Fly Against U.S. Hand in Overseas Militaries

In preparation for larger protests this weekend, several UCSB students will table and rally this week against the U.S. government-funded Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSE),...
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Church’s Paulist Fathers To Leave Local Ministry

After nearly 40 years of serving the UCSB and Isla Vista community, the Roman Catholic priest order of the Paulist Fathers announced that a dwindling number of priests and lack of resources has caused...
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Activist Speaks To SB Students About Morality

Nobel Prize winner and anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a packed audience in Arlington Theatre on Friday night, advocating forgiveness over retribution and a belief in the esse...
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Family, Friends Remember UCSB Alumnus

This Saturday, friends and family of former UCSB chemistry graduate student Michele Guidoni will gather to share memories and celebrate the life of the man they describe as exceptional in brilliance a...
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Potential Voters Offered Final Chance to Register

Students have one last chance today to make their voices heard - and help UCSB hold a record - by registering to vote for the upcoming, statewide special election.
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Assembly Celebrates Queers, Peers

Nearly 100 queers and allies came out yesterday afternoon to the National Coming Out Day rally in Storke Plaza to support each other's identities. Speakers at the rally talked about such issues as que...
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Students Sign Banner to Boost U.S. Troop Morale

Regardless of their personal feelings toward the War in Iraq, 117 students and passersby expressed their support Thursday afternoon for American soldiers stationed in Baghdad.
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