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Woman Sues County After Being Fired

A former Santa Barbara County employee filed suit against the county for wrongful termination yesterday, alleging emotional damages and asking to be reinstated.
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Students Fight to Keep Cal Grants

Students from the University of California will gather at their respective campuses at noon today to voice support for a constitutional amendment designed to secure continued funding of the Cal Grant ...
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CERN To Bring Particle Science Forward

Inside a 27-kilometer tunnel below the surface of France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle supercollider is beginning to rise out of dormancy to begin running fundamental physics experimen...
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Crash Ends Fatally for Undergrad

Devin Petelski, a fourth-year UCSB student, died at the UCLA Medical Center on Oct. 17 from injuries she sustained when a police cruiser slammed into her car two days before.
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EAB’s Euro Trip Leads to Funding Concerns

In December, UCSB students will be picking up the tab for 12 people to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Bizarre Act Spurs Scan of Support Resources

The recent incident at South Hall has renewed concern over campus mental health services, which officials say are severely lacking in funds.
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A.S. Helps to Preserve ESS

The Associated Students Finance Board dispensed $19,257.57 to nine student organizations from its unallocated Fall budget at last night's meeting.
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Santa Barbara to Reevaluate Local Booze Ban

The ordinance banning alcohol from Isla Vista's beaches will be up for debate again next week.
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Weekend Wrap-Up

A reckless driver took aim at the Isla Vista Foot Patrol this weekend as he attempted to run down several law enforcement officers.
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Co-op Hosts Festival

Hundreds of fairgoers filled Seville Road Saturday, where farm animals and Isla Vista residents cavorted at the second annual Co-op Country Fair.
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Pedestrians, Skaters May Collide Less

If all goes well, the skateboard path that UCSB added this summer could be a permanent addition to campus. The first of its kind at the university, the five-foot-wide skate path stretches several hund...
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Event Rates Fiscal Outlook

"Well, it looks like things are going to shit at the university," a student said to a friend as he filed out of yesterday's UC Commission on the Future Campus Forum. It was a sentiment shared by many ...
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L&S To See Stricter Class Repeat Policy

Beginning Winter Quarter, College of Letters and Science students will have to submit a petition in order to enroll in a class for a third time.
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UC Delays Fee Hike

A University of California proposal to charge select undergraduate majors an additional $900 in tuition has been postponed indefinitely.
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Officials Locate Campus Prowler

Local authorities' search for the man responsible for this week's South Hall incident ended Tuesday evening with the suspect's removal to a psychiatric facility.
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