News

C.U.E., UC Return to Negotiations

January 5, 2004 by

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.
read more

Visiting Professor Wins ‘German Nobel Prize’

January 5, 2004 by

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.
read more

UCSB Sacrifices Trees, Prepares for Construction

January 5, 2004 by

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.
read more

Scholar Wins Honor for Work in Chicano Studies

January 5, 2004 by

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.
read more

Anthropology Professor Dies During Break

January 5, 2004 by

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 bef...
read more

County Briefs

January 5, 2004 by

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

Feature Photo: Out With the Old

January 5, 2004 by


read more

Post-Christmas Rush

January 5, 2004 by


read more

TAs Reach Agreement With UC

December 4, 2003 by

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 ...
read more

IVFP Gets Money to Enforce Alcohol Laws

December 4, 2003 by

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 ...
read more

I.V. Burglars Loot Residences Over Holiday Weekend

December 4, 2003 by

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 h...
read more

Experts Fault Tech Rush for State’s Budget Woes

December 4, 2003 by

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.
read more

Fireman Earns Award for His Risky Rescue

December 4, 2003 by

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 Veal...
read more

Lecture Looks to the Stars, Glaxies

December 4, 2003 by

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.
read more

SB Homeless Shelter Reopens for Season

December 4, 2003 by

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.
read more