Marisa Lagos

April 24, 2003

Loud Morning Power Tools Can Blow Me

By Marisa Lagos

Certain politicians maintain that an earlier noise curfew could help curb rowdier partygoers, though anyone who has stayed in I.V. for more than five minutes would recognize the sheer stupidity in that assumption.

April 14, 2003

Veterans Want Peace, Support for U.S. Troops

By Marisa Lagos

Is it possible to oppose a war and still support the men and women fighting in it? Can the same person thoughtfully attend both a peace vigil and a pro-troops rally? Dan Seidenberg and Lane Anderson, both Vietnam veteran...

January 29, 2003

B-boy Brings Hip Hop Club to UCSB

By Marisa Lagos

If hip hop is synonymous to you with a way of life, you may have a new hangout on Wednesday nights. The Hip Hop Club will hold its first meeting today at 5 p.m. in North Hall, Room 1006.

January 21, 2003

Happy Trails

By Marisa Lagos

There are tons of other, more hikes to check out in Santa Barbara County - Seven Falls, which is only about a mile and a half each way, is well known and beautiful, as is Red Rock, although both can be a bit unrewarding ...

November 26, 2002

County Split Boosters To Try Again Later

By Marisa Lagos

After months on the front line of signature-gathering, the group that hopes to put a county split on the ballot is scrapping its efforts and beginning anew in the new year.

November 14, 2002

UC President Leaves Post

By Marisa Lagos

After eight years at the head of the largest public university system in the world, University of California President Richard C. Atkinson is stepping down.

November 5, 2002

Unarmed Man Robs Bank

By Marisa Lagos

The Goleta branch of Montecito Bank and Trust was robbed Monday afternoon when a single male suspect entered the bank and demanded cash from a teller.

November 5, 2002

Locals Urge Students to Vote

By Marisa Lagos

On today's ballot, voters have several choices to make, from our next congresswoman and state governor to the new county deputy district attorney.

October 16, 2002

Isla Vista Gears up for Halloween

By Marisa Lagos

The I.V. Foot Patrol historically steps up enforcement at the start of the school year, during what it calls the "Fall Education Period," and makes its presence felt even more on the days before and after Halloween.

October 10, 2002

War on Iraq: Not in Their Name

By Marisa Lagos

On Sept. 21, approximately 400 people gathered on Cota Street in downtown Santa Barbara to march in opposition of the proposed military action against Iraq.

September 20, 2002

Homecomings and Shortcomings

By Marisa Lagos

When I arrived in Siena this June, I spoke barely a word of Italian and knew virtually nothing about the place I had chosen to spend my summer.

September 20, 2002

Attias Begins Sentence in Hospital

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias, the former UCSB student who was convicted June 11 of four counts of second-degree murder and found legally insane a week later, is now in Patton State Hospital, where he will spend a maximum of 60 years.

June 6, 2002

Jury Finds Attias Guilty of Murder

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias showed little emotion on Wednesday afternoon as Judge Thomas Adams read guilty verdicts for all four second-degree murder charges to the former UCSB student and a packed courtroom.

June 6, 2002

Defense Rests Case in Sanity Phase

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias was legally insane when he murdered four people and almost killed a fifth last year, according to two psychiatrists who have testified for the defense.

June 6, 2002

Jury Declares Attias Insane

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias was legally insane on February 23, 2001, when he killed four people, and seriously injured another person, a jury found on Thursday.

May 29, 2002

Dad Wanted Attias to Have ‘Normal Life’

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias' father, Daniel, testified in court on Tuesday that his son wanted to come home from UCSB in the months preceding the deadly Feb. 23, 2001 collision, but that he told the freshman he should stay in Santa Bar...