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UCPD Says Hallucinogenic Mushrooms May Have Had Role in Freshman's Fall From Window
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During yesterday's Victory Over Violence Day celebration, a vagina danced through Storke Plaza as students munched on pussy cookies and better-than-sex cake.
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In preparation for the 2008 General Election, presidential candidates like Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. are modernizing their campaign techniques to attract attention from college students.
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Eric Frimpong's lawyer was back in court today, while the soccer player was back on campus after posting $250,000 bail.
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The seemingly unconnected protests of the war in Iraq, resident evictions in Isla Vista, and rising student fees have all been provoked, this weekend's conference postulates, by an invisible force out...
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The Santa Barbara Municipal Transit District is going green this May, as they make the switch from traditional petroleum to biodiesel fuel for their buses.
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Assemblyman Pedro Nava is peddling his way through an uphill battle to pass a new bicycle safety law in response to last year's death of UCSB student Kendra Payne.
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The National Institutes of Health has given a UCSB chemistry professor nearly $2 million in funding to study a new approach to Alzheimer's disease.
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Four years after receiving its lock-in fee, Transportation & Parking Services is now asking students to increase the rate they pay - despite resistance from its oversight board.
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Southbound commuters frustrated by Highway 101 congestion may soon see some relief, but their northbound counterparts will not be so lucky.
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After a few weeks of bureaucratic ping pong, the UCSB chapter of Habitat for Humanity will reapply for funding from Associated Students Finance Board to pay for its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
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Associated Students Legislative Council heard reports from several A.S. committees, discussed future plans and tabled one bill at its meeting yesterday.
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The UC-affiliated Los Alamos National Laboratory will not have to pay the $1.1 million in safety fines it was facing, due to its previously held non-profit contractor exemption status.
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Residence Hall officials are currently looking to replace all existing keyed entries with e-chips that would open doors and monitor student activity.
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