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UCSB Student’s Goodwill Touches Former Professor

A UCSB alum received a pleasant surprise Monday when his wallet was returned with the cash and credit cards still inside.
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UC Briefs: January 7th, 2004

More UC Budget Cuts, Global Warming Brings Big Changes to CA's Coastal Waters, Foundation Awards $17.5 Million for 30-Meter Telescope Plans
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Men at Work


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Teen Stabs 16-Year-Old in I.V. Brawl

A 13-year-old boy was arrested on Friday, Jan. 2, following a confrontation in Isla Vista that left a 16-year-old boy with a stab wound to the stomach.
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I.V. Homes Suffer Little Theft

Isla Vista had another winter break with relatively few burglaries, continuing the low crime rate that has become a trend over the past few years. As of Monday, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol had received...
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Caller Leaves Bomb Threat at Beep

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 I...
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C.U.E., UC Return to Negotiations

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.
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Visiting Professor Wins ‘German Nobel Prize’

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.
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UCSB Sacrifices Trees, Prepares for Construction

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.
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Scholar Wins Honor for Work in Chicano Studies

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.
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Anthropology Professor Dies During Break

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...
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County Briefs

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


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Post-Christmas Rush


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TAs Reach Agreement With UC

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 ...
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