Stephanie Tavares

April 8, 2003

Planners Request Student Opinions

By Stephanie Tavares

Planning consultants hired by UCSB Campus Design and Planning, who will be in the UCen today and tomorrow, are asking students, faculty and staff for input on what physical changes they think should be made to the UCSB c...

April 8, 2003

Author Brings ‘A Problem From Hell’ To University

By Stephanie Tavares

Power is speaking as part of the "Global Forces in the Post-Cold War World" lecture series sponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Global and International Studies Prog...

April 8, 2003

Actors To Present American Voices

By Stephanie Tavares

"American Dreams: Lost and Found," a theatric adaptation of a book of interviews published by Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel will be performed by The Acting Company on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.

April 3, 2003

Suit Attacks UC Nondisclosure

By Stephanie Tavares

The San Jose Mercury News, the Coalition of University Employees (C.U.E.) and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Charles Schwarz have filed a joint suit against the University of California in Alameda County Superior Court.

April 2, 2003

Mediator Urges New Contract for C.U.E., UC

By Stephanie Tavares

Almost two years of contract negotiations between the University of California and its clerical workers may finally come to an end in the coming weeks.

March 7, 2003

UCSB Junior Found Dead in Bedroom

By Stephanie Tavares

Junior pre-psychology major Chris David Becker passed away Monday morning of unknown causes. He was 23 years old. UC police responded to a call that a male resident was found not breathing in his room at the campus-owned...

March 5, 2003

Recycle Bin Melts in Weekend Fire

By Stephanie Tavares

Community Service Organization officers discovered the receptacle engulfed in flames at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday in front of the UCen near the University Art Museum.

March 4, 2003

UCSB Weightlifter Wins Competition

By Stephanie Tavares

A UCSB student was declared one of California's strongest powerlifters this weekend after lifting over three-fourths of a ton in two days of competition.

February 20, 2003

Nonprofit Group Buys Local Radio Station

By Stephanie Tavares

Santa Barbara Foundation is in the process of finalizing the purchase of KDB radio station after waiting two years for while UCSB failed to raise enough money to purchase it. The current owners are donating or selling th...

February 18, 2003

A Healthy Balance

By Stephanie Tavares

Cristina Sandoval, the director and sole employee of the Coal Oil Point Reserve, is tucked away in the vine-covered wooden shed that serves as her office.

February 14, 2003

UC Takes Former Partners to Court

By Stephanie Tavares

The University of California filed suit Thursday against three large financial reporting institutions for allegedly engaging in accounting fraud.

February 13, 2003

WETT’s Vaginas To Engulf UCSB Tonight at 7

By Stephanie Tavares

Women's Ensemble Theater Troupe, better known as WETT, will be presenting "The Vagina Monologues" at I.V. Theater tonight at 6:15. Follow-up performances will be held Feb. 21 and 22.

February 10, 2003

Pi Kappa Alpha Works Up a Sweat at Coal Oil Point

By Stephanie Tavares

Sweaty with exertion, bent over in effort, 40 members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity came together last Saturday to clear weeds and pull out rusty fence posts and pipes from the Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve.

January 28, 2003

UC Briefs: January 28, 2003

By Stephanie Tavares

Saturday morning a passerby noticed a foul smell coming from the bushes that line Hilgard Avenue on UCLA campus and called UC Police Dept.

January 24, 2003

Chicana Artist Kicks Off Exhibition

By Stephanie Tavares

The MultiCultural Center Theater was overflowing Thursday afternoon with UCSB students, staff and faculty buzzing with excitement for the appearance of a controversial Chicana artist and UCSB alumna.

January 22, 2003

Campus Mourns Lecturer

By Stephanie Tavares

Dr. Shirley Kennedy, UCSB alumna and lecturer, died Monday at 8:00 a.m. of complications associated with cancer at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. She was 76.