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Reel Loud Fest To Screen Silent Films

A UCSB tradition will reel students in with music, films and ninjas tonight at Campbell Hall. The 14th annual Reel Loud Film Festival will feature 13 student-made silent films accompanied by live musi...
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Candle-Lighting Ceremony To Honor U.S., Iraqi Dead

An army of candles will light the bases of over 1,600 crosses on West Beach this Memorial Day weekend, as the Santa Barbara Veterans for Peace honor the memory of U.S. military personnel killed in Ira...
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Kids To Chalk It Up at Painting Festival

Over 400 local artists and schoolchildren will be decorating the streets at the three-day I Madonnari Italian street painting festival outside the Santa Barbara Mission this weekend.
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County Plans to Extend Segovia Paths

Students frustrated by the incomplete sidewalk and lack of bicycle access along the trek from Segovia Road to campus may see a respite to their commute troubles by the end of the year.
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UC-wide Union Strikes for Higher Salaries, Fairness

University of California research and technical workers will strike today at campuses throughout the UC system, including UCSB, to protest what union leaders claim are unfair wages and negotiation pra...
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PAC/GPAC Propose I.V. Lights, Walkways

The Project Area Committee and General Plan Advisory Committee (PAC/GPAC) considered two programs at its meeting Wednesday that could help make Isla Vista streets brighter and easier for pedestrians t...
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“Murmers” Speaks Volumes


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IVRPD To Fix Three Coastal Access Points

The journey from land to sand should become safer in the next few months, once local officials work out the final details of a project that will reinforce three I.V. beach accessways.
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UC Regents To Make Final Vote on Lab Contract

A University of California Regents committee unanimously recommended Wednesday that the UC bid for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) contract, which if won would extend the University's nearly...
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Officials Seek Solution to Crumbling Cliffs

In 2001, the university replaced a 30-year-old fence that lined the east campus bluffs because it became damaged due to erosion. At present, four years after the repair, the university is looking to r...
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County Delays Discussion of Oak Tree Protection Plan for 90 Days Until Hearing

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors decided to suspend discussion about an ordinance protecting local oak trees and heard suggestions for keeping the county safe during fire season at its me...
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Biologists Link Blindness to Gene

Biologists at UCSB recently published research that identified a gene responsible for the most common form of irreversible elderly blindness in developed countries.
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SB City Council Aims to Keep 101 in Motion

While physical improvements to Highway 101 through Santa Barbara may still be a long way down the road, the Santa Barbara City Council is continuing to discuss methods of decreasing traffic congestion...
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Repent Sinners, Students


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Wage Increases Fail to Appease Union Demands

Members of one union are preparing to strike this week despite receiving a new wage proposal from the University of California, while members of another will vote on whether they wish to do the same f...
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