News

May 15, 2003

Sheriff Defends Funding Request

By Kristina Ackermann

In order to combat terrorism, cover departmental costs and recoup debts incurred by campaigning, Sheriff Jim Anderson is asking his supporters for monetary contributions.

May 15, 2003

MTD Plans Better Ride for Students

By Stephanie Tavares

Metropolitan Transit District representatives presented a proposal for changes to next year's rates and services provided to students and the community in a meeting Tuesday at the Graduate Student Lounge.

May 15, 2003

Frozen Snake May Warrant Charges

By Jason La Staff Writer Travis Hunter Staff Writer

On Wednesday, the UC Police Dept. requested an additional count of felony animal cruelty against an Isla Vista man who was arrested in connection with the multiple stabbing of a 13-foot, 80-pound Burmese python.

May 15, 2003

UC May Ban Faculty-Student Romances, Sex

By Justin Scott

The UC Board of Regents is considering an addition to the Faculty Code of Conduct making it a violation for a faculty member to engage in a relationship with a student for whom he or she has an academic responsibility or...

May 15, 2003

Library Helps Dig Up Family Trees

By Chalyn Cook

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society Library, also known as the Sahyun Library, is a nonprofit organization that provides material useful for researching family history.

May 15, 2003

Persian Culture Night Takes To MCC Stage

By Ashley Doty

The third annual Persian Club Culture Night will bring the sights, sounds, and culture of traditional Iran to UCSB. Culture night will begin tonight at 7 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Theater.

May 15, 2003

Series Ends With Talk on Trust in U.S.

By Samantha Morgan

So the pope and a physicist walk into a bar. Well, it's less a bar, really, than it is a lecture hall. And the pope isn't actually there, but the physicist met him once. So a physicist walks into a lecture hall to talk a...

May 15, 2003

New Bill May Help Victims of Identity Theft

By Brendan Kearns

The Assembly Public Safety Committee unanimously passed AB 1105, written by 35th District Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson on May 6. The bill adds identity theft and filing false documents to the list of crimes for whic...

May 14, 2003

MTD Contemplates Bus Costs

By Stephanie Tavares

Proposed changes in bus service for next school year could leave students a little poorer, but potentially with improved transportation services.

May 14, 2003

I.V. To Decide Barricades’ Fate

By Drew Mackie

Isla Vista residents and business owners have a chance to either speak in defense of local traffic barricades or demand their destruction.

May 14, 2003

UCSB, IVFP Meet Locals on Safety

By Cory Anthony

Students finally got their chance to interrogate police officers at the Associated Students Commission on Public Safety (C.O.P.S) town hall meeting Tuesday.

May 14, 2003

National Science Group Honors UCSB Professor

By Zach Friedberg Reporter

UCSB Physics Professor Herbert Kroemer was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. On April 29, Kroemer added this accomplishment to his list of acclaim, which includes an election to the National Academy o...

May 14, 2003

Students Enjoy Dining Services’ Take-out Meals

By Jamie Morrow

With the dining halls undergoing renovations, students are eating a lot more sandwiches than ever before.

May 14, 2003

UCSB Adds Financial Math Major

By Jason La

UC Santa Barbara students majoring in economics and interested in mathematics and statistics will have the opportunity to graduate with a degree in both, thanks to a new undergraduate major.

May 14, 2003

By Kristina Ackermann

That Deaf, Dumb and Blind Kid Friday, May 9, 11:43 p.m.: It was the perfect beginning to a typical weekend in Isla Vista. I.V. Foot Patrol officers on a routine prowl down the 6500 block of Del Playa Drive spotted the ni...

May 13, 2003

Foot Patrol Goes Undercover

By Daniel Haier

Undercover police officers working with the Isla Vista Foot Patrol have infiltrated throngs of weekend Del Playa crowds to combat increasing occurrences of street fights and violent assaults.