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Film Festival Wraps Up After 11 Days

Downtown Santa Barbara will be a lot quieter and hotels will be less packed this weekend than they have been in a while, now that the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival has rolled u...
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Precautions to Guard Personal Data

UCSB information and technology department is launching a campus-wide initiative to reset UCSBnetID passwords in order to make students' personal information more secure.
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Fire Dept. To Provide Disaster Tips to Locals

This weekend, Santa Barbara firefighters are offering local residents a chance to relearn how to stop, drop and roll.
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CSNI Freshmen Course To Focus on Big Brother

A new course will soon offer students a three-point perspective on public surveillance by fusing science, sociology and engineering.
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Take Me to Your Leader


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Former Terrorist Sparks Debate During Lecture

Moderator to last night's Walid Shoebat lecture, Professor Robert Rauchhaus, opened the presentation by urging audience members to respect the speaker's freedom of speech and refrain from disrupting o...
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Cleanup Stops Contamination of Local Forest Contamination

Last night, as a crew of more than 80 people worked to clean up a recent 210-gallon oil spill at Tar Creek, a second 20-gallon leak was detected in the same pipeline running through the Los Padres Nat...
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Leg Council Votes To Support Anti-War Strike

At a lengthy four-hour meeting, Associated Students Legislative Council passed one bill and approved three resolutions, including two concerning the war in Iraq.
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Capps To Assist Crippled Agriculture

After a streak of abnormally cold winter weather caused more than one billion dollars in crop damage across the state last month, local politicians are now working on a disaster relief bill to provide...
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News-Press Layoffs Spark Protest

The Santa Barbara News-Press continued making its own news yesterday, firing three more staff writers, bringing the toll up to six terminated employees in 48 hours.
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Former Mexican Leader To Explore Mexico-U.S. Concerns, Immigration

Three-time Mexican presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano will speak in Campbell Hall tonight to address issues affecting U.S.-Mexico relations in the present and in the future.
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Former PLO Member To Lecture

Self-proclaimed former terrorist from the Palestine Liberation Organization Walid Shoebat will speak on campus tonight about the current situation in the Middle East and his violent experiences involv...
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Group Contests Land Approval

The serene and scenic Las Positas Valley has recently become the fighting ground for a land dispute between the City of Santa Barbara and the local environmental group Citizens Planning Association.
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Women To Perform Local Artist’s New V-Day Play

Santa Barbara theatergoers can look forward to seeing 13 women present heartfelt lectures about their vaginas on stage this year - in addition to the local annual performances of "The Vagina Monologue...
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Program Set To Improve Equipment

The Disabled Students Program is planning a substantial upgrade for its technology systems in hopes of giving its students easier access to new educational resources.
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