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Community Tries Out Fire Evacuation Plan

In a practice drill, over 200 Mission Canyon residents evacuated their homes on Saturday morning, urged on by public advisory warnings broadcast from police car speakers and Search and Rescue teams tr...
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Search Team Rescues Injured Hiker

An elderly hiker was rescued early Sunday morning after twisting his knee and spending the night alone on Santa Cruz Island. Willard Thompson, a 65-year-old Montecito resident, was hiking Saturday on ...
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Bringin’ Down the Table


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DA To Move For Gag Order in Trial

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office will be introducing a motion at today's hearing in the murder case of late UCSB graduate student Jarrod Davidson that may slam the door on communica...
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Greek Girls To Bump for La Conchita

Balls will fly as sorority girls, swimsuits and security guards come together on Saturday at Alpha Tau Omega's (ATO) All-Sorority Volleyball Tournament. Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 22 teams of bikini-c...
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Queers, Allies To Tie Knot to End Pride Week

The 16th annual Queer Pride Week at UCSB culminates with a wedding ceremony today at noon in Storke Plaza. Tanya Paperny, Queer Student Union (QSU) co-chair, and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Mi...
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ESLP Brings Environmental Lectures to UCSB Students

tudent-led classes at UCSB are bringing together different disciplines to study and recommend environmentally friendly construction and natural resource consumption policies to the University of Calif...
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Feature Photo: Give Freebirds Some Credit

Kip Lorenzetti, a second-year business economics major and supervisor at Freebirds, swipes a customer's credit card, a payment option that is sure to become popular at the restaurant.
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SB Investigators Arrest Three in Stabbing Case

Three suspects were arrested Wednesday for their alleged role in the fatal stabbing of a Santa Barbara minor Tuesday night following a botched attempt to rob a local drug dealer.
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New Plan May Remove Pardall Tunnel

As part of the long-range campus plan and redesign, urban architects are proposing to remove the UCSB bicycle tunnel that travels under Ocean Road and leads onto Pardall Road and replacing it with a s...
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UPTE Union Contemplates Strike Against University

Technical workers throughout the University of California may decide to strike within the next few months if union members vote in favor this Friday.
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PAC/GPAC Talks I.V. Center, Bus Stops

Discussion about the Isla Vista Community Center and renovation of local bus stops went round and round at a meeting of the Project Area Committee/General Plan Advisory Committee (PAC/GPAC) on Wednesd...
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Rain Postpones Lab Completion Date

Because of this year's unusually long winter rains, construction on the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) expansion has been delayed until this July - four months after the original deadline, univer...
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A.S. Finds, Allocates Budget Surplus

An accounting discrepancy in the Associated Students' 2005-06 budget forced A.S. Legislative Council to reconsider a revised financial plan Wednesday night, even though it approved an incorrect versio...
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Slain Grad’s Former Wife Enters Plea

The ex-wife of slain UCSB graduate student Jarrod Davidson maintained that she had no role in his murder, pleading not guilty to two felony counts at her arraignment Monday.
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