News

April 18, 2003

IVRPD Critic Donates Park Use Fee

By Justin Scott

The Isla Vista Recreation and Park District was presented with a generous offer from an unlikely source at their bimonthly meeting Thursday night.

April 17, 2003

A.S. Debates I.V. Rep, Cash Flow

By William Pham Staff Writer

Associated Students Legislative Council spent the bulk of Wednesday's meeting discussing the shifting sands of committee positions and the shifting salaries of elected officers.

April 17, 2003

FBI Investigates Spy Scandal at UC Nuclear Lab

By Josh Braun

Recent developments have government officials questioning the intelligence of one of the UC's nuclear laboratories. William Cleveland Jr. resigned from his position as the head of counterintelligence at Lawrence Livermor...

April 17, 2003

SB City Council Denies Citizen Review

By Drew Mackie

Although Santa Barbara resident Bruce Rittenhouse disagrees, his city's police department will not be subject to review by a board of local civilians.

April 17, 2003

Night of Surf Rockin’ To Fund Goleta Beach Protection Effort

By Lacadia Olsen

The Surfrider Foundation is hosting a benefit concert to raise money and generate interest in local environmental issues. SOhO Restaurant and Music Club, located at 1221State St., will host the Surfrider Benefit Concert ...

April 16, 2003

A.S. Pursues Sliding Scale

By Jason La

An initiative on the spring elections ballot seeks to amend the Associated Students Constitution to change the number of votes needed to pass future A.S. ballot measures.

April 16, 2003

Gaucho Mythology Debunked

By Brendan Kearns

Much can be attributed to the persistent myths about the school that portray it as a depraved bastion of drunken, promiscuous youths densely packed along the Central Coast. These legends have spread so widely that a larg...

April 16, 2003

Sliding Scale Formula Fails to Add Up

By Brendan Buhler

Wednesday night, quickly and quietly, Associated Students Legislative Council changed a constitutional amendment on next week's ballot to correct a small and quite consequential error.

April 16, 2003

Man Dies From Drug Overdose

By Drew Mackie

Investigation into a death the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Dept. deputies had initially labeled as "mysterious" and "suspicious" has revealed that cocaine killed 36-year-old James Luna.

April 16, 2003

Campaigners Grapple With Sign Rules

By Jason La

Confusion over the number of campaign signs allowed per grass plot during Associated Students elections ended after the A.S. Elections Committee made its ruling Wednesday on the disagreement.

April 16, 2003

Supervisors Vote to Protect Oak Trees

By Daniel Haier

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt new guidelines designed to protect local native oak trees by closely regulating their removal.

April 16, 2003

Researchers Check Quakes’ Irregular Pulses

By Travis Hunter

UCSB researchers using three-dimensional computer models have found that earthquakes work much differently than previously assumed.

April 16, 2003

Crime Stopper Helps Catch Local Robber

By Drew Mackie

The Santa Barbara County chapter of Crime Stoppers International program has allowed its first informant to safely supply the name and whereabouts of a wanted criminal.

April 16, 2003

Latino Cartoonist To Give Workshop, Lecture

By Jake Cadwell

Like its namesake insect, Lalo Alcarez's La Cucaracha comic has proven hard to kill. The sometimes controversial cartoonist Lalo Alcarez will spend the day at the UCSB MultiCultural Center for "Latino USA: A Cartoon His...

April 14, 2003

UCSB To Cut Funding to Teen Center

By Kristina Ackermann

Due to a severely reduced budget at UCSB, necessitated by statewide cuts passed by Gov. Gray Davis, the teen center will lose all of its university-sponsored funding, which accounts for one-third of the center's total re...

April 14, 2003

Anti-War Protests Continue

By Drew Mackie

Even as the image of soldiers toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein seemingly heralded the end of the American invasion of Iraq, Santa Barbarans opposed to the war protested for the 30th consecutive week.