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October 20, 2006

Conference Explores Nuclear Alternatives

By Lizzie Blumenthal

At the second annual Think Outside the Bomb Conference this weekend, attendees might start worrying and stop loving the bomb in order to find alternatives to nuclear war and weapon production.

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October 19, 2006

Protest Campers Call for Aid From Chancellor Yang

By Aria Miran

The Open DoorStudents and community members agitating for the university's support stormed Cheadle Hall yesterday, vowing to sit in until they had concrete answers to their demands.

October 19, 2006

A.S. Proposes Lock-in Fee for Group Funding

By Lindsey Miller

The 29 organizations that are part of the Students' Initiative have gathered more than the 2,130 student signatures necessary to get the fee increase on the ballot for next week's special election. The final signature co...

October 19, 2006

Weekend Event To Combat E-Waste

By Evan Wagstaff

Beer-soaked laptops and smashed cell phones are not an uncommon sight in Isla Vista, and now students can get rid of these electronics legally as Electronic Waste Management hosts a free e-waste disposal and recycling ev...

October 19, 2006

Activities Faire Spotlights UCSB Clubs

By Brandy Deminna

With dancing, music, free food and scores of smiling faces, the 22nd Annual Activities Faire prodded students to stop vegetating and starting participating in campus life.

October 19, 2006

Leggies Meet Outdoors to Support Tenants

By Valerie Tidwell

Associated Students Legislative Council approved an unusual request last night and held its weekly meeting outdoors under a twilight sky.

October 19, 2006

IVRPD To Send Power Underground

By Lauren Crecelius

The lofty poles and power lines on El Colegio Road and Camino Corto will soon be another relic in Isla Vista's history, now that the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District has unanimously approved a grant of easement wi...

October 18, 2006

Evicted Tenants Rally, Protest

By David Ferry

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors publicly announced yesterday that it will not be able to help the Cedarwood Apartments tenants in their campaign against being evicted.

October 18, 2006

Coalition Calls for Rape Truce, Assault-Free Day

By David Saidi

In preparation for what they have declared as a rape and sexual assault-free weekend, members of Students Stopping Rape will table in front of the Women's Center this week to educate passersby on how they can help.

October 18, 2006

New Eatery To Serve Up Local Food

By Geoff Skelton

Isla Vista's China Garden has been uprooted, but a blossoming new restaurant, Eclectic I.V., will soon take its place.

October 18, 2006

Student Finds Success in Trade Site

By Anastasia Alen

His background is in selling Star Wars collector's cards and his major is sociology, but Jeff Gill, a fourth-year at UCSB, has a stock trading website that has made him approximately $40,000 since April.

October 18, 2006

Groups Gather to Warm Up for MTV Contest

By Sabrina Ricci

It's getting hot in here, so a few campus groups are coming together to fight global warming by competing in an MTV-hosted competition for environmental sustainability.

October 18, 2006

Kids, UCSB Students To Make Music

By Chris Fitch

Using a $10,000 award he earned from a scholarship foundation, UCSB student Areo Saffarzadeh recently founded a music mentoring program that will employ Gauchos to teach tunes and serve as role models to local school chi...