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Voters Veto Props, Re-elect Mayor

November 9, 2005 by

As of 12 a.m. this morning, preliminary returns from yesterday's special election showed that all the statewide propositions failed by very narrow margins and Santa Barbara City's incumbent Mayor, Mar...
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Church’s Paulist Fathers To Leave Local Ministry

November 9, 2005 by

After nearly 40 years of serving the UCSB and Isla Vista community, the Roman Catholic priest order of the Paulist Fathers announced that a dwindling number of priests and lack of resources has caused...
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Student Health Runs Low on Shot Stock

November 9, 2005 by

While other local facilities have an ample supply, UCSB Student Health has nearly exhausted its stock of the influenza vaccine due to a high volume of students, faculty and staff seeking inoculation a...
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CHP To Give Thanks by Donating Turkeys for Underprivileged

November 9, 2005 by

Officers from the Santa Barbara chapter of the California Highway Patrol will hand out turkeys as well as tickets this Thanksgiving season for locals who cannot afford to finance their own feasts.
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SB County Tests for Infected Mosquitoes in Various Locations

November 9, 2005 by

Several mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been found inhabiting pools of standing water countywide since the disease's first discovery in Santa Barbara in 2004.
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Ex-Professor To Serve 2 Years

November 9, 2005 by

Former UCSB professor and Nobel Prize winner John Robert Schrieffer was sentenced to two years in state prison Monday for gross negligence vehicular manslaughter.
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New Campus Center To Examine the Mind

November 9, 2005 by

UCSB will soon evolve from a place where minds can study to a place where researchers can also study the mind. The recently founded SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind will offer faculty and student...
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I’m kind of a big deal. People know me.

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So a cowboy and a marijuana leaf walk into a bar…

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Top UC Official Resigns Amid Hiring Inquisition

November 8, 2005 by

In the midst of an investigation concerning possible improper hiring practices and conflicts of interest, University of California Provost and Senior Vice President MRC Greenwood resigned last Friday,...
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Local Citizens, Companies Build House for Hurricane Survivors

November 8, 2005 by

Over the past five weeks, local volunteers worked with Habitat for Humanity to construct a house that will provide much-needed shelter for a Mississippi family whose home was swept away by Hurricane K...
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A.S., Activists Urge Action Against Student Loan Cuts

November 8, 2005 by

Over 150 students phoned in their opinions to a Southern California congressman yesterday, urging him and other congressional members to "Stop the Raid on Student Aid."
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A.S. Finance Board Funds NAACP Comedy Show With Remaining Fall Quarter Budget

November 8, 2005 by

The Associated Students Finance Board relinquished the last of its Fall Quarter funds yesterday after allocating $256.61 to the UCSB chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
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Special Election Presents Props to State’s Voters

November 7, 2005 by

Local polling places and political groups are gearing up for tomorrow's statewide special election, which is expected to yield the lowest voter turnout in California's history.
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Activist Speaks To SB Students About Morality

November 7, 2005 by

Nobel Prize winner and anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a packed audience in Arlington Theatre on Friday night, advocating forgiveness over retribution and a belief in the esse...
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