News

January 5, 2004

C.U.E., UC Return to Negotiations

By Jason La

The Coalition of University Employees (C.U.E.), the union that represents University of California clerical workers, has re-opened talks with UC on wages, parking and health benefits.

January 5, 2004

Caller Leaves Bomb Threat at Beep

By Daniel Haier

A suspected client or former client of the Devereux Medical Center on UCSB's West Campus left a bomb threat on the center's answering machine sometime late Dec. 29 or early Dec. 30, according to the Isla Vista Foot Patro...

January 5, 2004

UCSB Sacrifices Trees, Prepares for Construction

By Jenny Mayock

Students returned to school on Monday to find the empty lot near Snidecor Hall a little emptier after the university cleared roughly a dozen trees from the area.

January 5, 2004

Visiting Professor Wins ‘German Nobel Prize’

By Nexus Staff Report

Frank Allgoewer, a visiting professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, was awarded the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize on Dec. 11 by the German Research Foundation.

January 5, 2004

Scholar Wins Honor for Work in Chicano Studies

By Nexus Staff Report

A UCSB professor will receive a national award for his research and writing about Mexican Americans and for contributions to developing Chicana and Chicano studies as an academic discipline.

January 5, 2004

Anthropology Professor Dies During Break

By Caitlin Adams

Professor Emeritus William Madsen died of lung cancer on Dec. 24 in his home in Santa Barbara surrounded by his family. His wife, Claudia Madsen, said he had been diagnosed with cancer three weeks before he died.

January 5, 2004

County Briefs

By Nexus Staff Report

On Wednesday, Dec. 10, a man walked into the South Coast Community Federal Credit Union on Calle Real with a handgun and demanded money .

January 5, 2004

Feature Photo: Out With the Old

By system

January 5, 2004

Post-Christmas Rush

By system

December 4, 2003

TAs Reach Agreement With UC

By Jason La

The strike by teaching assistants, tutors and other academic student employees that would have started today was avoided when the University and the labor union reached a tentative contract agreement late Tuesday night.

December 4, 2003

IVFP Gets Money to Enforce Alcohol Laws

By Nihal Dhillon Reporter

For those who are thinking about getting a fake I.D. over break, you might want to think twice. The Isla Vista Foot Patrol recently received a $50,000 grant from the regional Alcohol Beverage Control board to strengthen ...

December 4, 2003

I.V. Burglars Loot Residences Over Holiday Weekend

By Daniel Haier

Twelve reported residential burglaries over Thanksgiving weekend cost Isla Vista residents just over $25,000 in stolen property, according to the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, but residents can sign up to have their house look...

December 4, 2003

Experts Fault Tech Rush for State’s Budget Woes

By Travis Hunter

Speakers at a forum on California's budget crisis agreed that the use of "money from heaven" from the late-1990s Internet boom is largely responsible for putting the state in its current fiscal hell.

December 4, 2003

Fireman Earns Award for His Risky Rescue

By Daniel Haier Staff Writer Kristina Ackermann Staff Writer

When firefighter Howard Orr fell on a live power line last August while fighting a brush fire in Lompoc Valley, the thousands of volts flowing through his body shocked fellow firefighter Jonathan Veale as he tried to res...

December 4, 2003

Lecture Looks to the Stars, Glaxies

By Ben Krasnow

Sally Oey, from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., gave a talk in which she described how galaxies evolve and are affected by massive stars.

December 4, 2003

SB Homeless Shelter Reopens for Season

By Jenny Mayock

On Monday night, the Casa Esperanza Homeless Center in downtown Santa Barbara opened its doors for the winter under its new name, welcoming community members, shelter board members and the homeless.