Travis Hunter

April 5, 2004

North Tower Reopens After Renovations

By Travis Hunter

Francisco Torres residents switched towers last week and found slightly smaller rooms and more complicated toilets waiting on the other side. Work was recently completed on FT's North Tower, which has been undergoing sei...

April 1, 2004

Math Professor Gets Sizeable Sum

By Travis Hunter

A distinguished visiting UCSB professor received a mathematics prize on March 30 comparable to the Nobel Prize-at least in terms of the prize money. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded the 2002 Abel Priz...

March 30, 2004

Tools Drop From Crane Top

By Travis Hunter

Two budding Isaac Newtons, aged 11 and 14, conducted their own gravitational experiments from the top of a 115-foot crane on campus for more than an hour before firefighters brought the youngsters back down to earth.

March 5, 2004

Top Student Chosen for Prestigious Grant

By Travis Hunter

After receiving a prestigious fellowship, the top student in this year's senior class of electrical engineers will only have to worry about half his tuition when he continues on to graduate school.

March 3, 2004

Isla Vista Attack Claims Life of SBCC Student

By Travis Hunter

An assault Saturday night in Isla Vista left one Santa Barbara City College student dead and another being held at the Santa Barbara County Jail.

March 2, 2004

Rain Drives Groundbreaking Indoors

By Travis Hunter

As campus leaders gathered Monday to break ground on a new academic building, the only thing missing was the ground. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Psychology Building addition was moved from the building site to in...

March 2, 2004

Science Grant To Expand Pathways, Minds

By Travis Hunter

UCSB will use some of a $2 million grant to throw the coolest science slumber party ever. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCSB announced Feb. 26 it had received the grant from the National Science Foundati...

February 27, 2004

Campus Wolfs Down Film on Price of Lupine Liberty

By Travis Hunter

A film showing tonight will bring a heated environmental debate from the wilderness of Idaho to the screen at Campbell Hall. "Cost of Freedom" follows wolves relocated from Canada to Idaho as part of an effort to restore...

February 26, 2004

Error | Self-Titled | Epitaph

By Travis Hunter

How hard is it to describe how this record sounds? Well, the first draft of this review included the word "morphy." Guitarist Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, synth-programmer Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails and singer Gr...

February 18, 2004

SB Hosts Spring Speaker Series

By Travis Hunter

A new lecture series will teach UC a different way of thinking about sustainability. The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP) will bring renowned authors and environmentalists to five UC campuses, including UC...

February 12, 2004

Probot | Probot | Southern Lord

By Travis Hunter

Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters spent a few years putting together an album's worth of metal tunes, then recruited such all-stars as Lemmy from Motorhead, Cronos from Venom and Max Calavera of Sepultura to provide...

February 10, 2004

Union May Get Thousands of UC Employees

By Travis Hunter

On Wednesday the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) will send ballots to administrative professionals throughout the UC system offering the choice between the status quo of no representation or joining t...

February 3, 2004

University Says Thanks a Million, Michael Douglas

By Travis Hunter

Academy Award-winning actor and UCSB alumnus Michael Douglas contributed $1 million toward the construction of a new Center for Film, Television and New Media, the university announced Monday.

January 28, 2004

Film Examines Life of Famous Architect

By Travis Hunter

The maker of a film showing at Campbell Hall tonight toured the globe visiting the works of one of the 20th century's greatest architects, not only to study the buildings themselves, but also to discover the father he ba...

January 27, 2004

UCSB Receives $1.1 Million for Catholic Studies

By Travis Hunter

At a Friday benefit celebrating his 85th birthday, Father Virgil Cordano received the sizable gift of a $1.1 million donation to the endowment bearing his name.

January 26, 2004

Woman Escapes Potential Rapist

By Travis Hunter

The UC Police Dept. arrested a 35-year-old male transient on campus Sunday morning after the man allegedly threw a woman to the ground and attempted to rape her.