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DP Weekend Clash Ends in Injury, Arrest

A brawl in a Del Playa Drive apartment Saturday night left the alleged instigator with a head wound from a miniature baseball bat, in addition to an arrest on charges of unlawful entry and felony batt...
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Lemon Lovers Enjoy Food, Leisure at Fest

"When life gives you lemons, make lemon beer" could be the new motto of UCSB students who discovered lemon beer at the 12th annual California Lemon Festival held in Goleta.
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Zoo Gives Elephants More Room to Roam

The Santa Barbara Zoo began renovating its Asian elephant exhibit, the Elephant Barn, last week. The additions will cost an estimated $2.6-2.7 million and will triple the size of the 5,000-square-foot...
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Chemistry Professor Wins Award, Funds

Assistant chemistry Professor Jeffrey Bode recently received a$40,000 grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Awards Program for his research in the synthesis of organic molecules.
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Police Reports: October 19, 2003

Deputies saw a woman staggering along Del Playa Drive following a group of people. The woman, perhaps deciding that walking was for suckers, sat herself on the bumper of a slow-moving van.
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The Mammas and the Pappas


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Towering Above the Rest


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Hwy 101 Plan Finally Gets on the Road

Give your brakes a rest, because the drive from Santa Barbara to Ventura may be quicker and more spacious - eventually. The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) approved the Highway...
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Talk Traces Chinese-Americans’ Past

A lecture at Campbell Hall last night detailed Chinese-American struggles both past and present. One hundred and fifty people heard Iris Chang, journalist and best-selling author on global Chinese his...
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UCSB To Go Clubbing at Annual Activities Fair

What do a group of unicyclists, Democrats and wrestlers have in common? They can all be found today at the 19th annual UCSB Activities Faire, which is being held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Storke Plaza...
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Stabbings Injure Prison Guards

Two guards were stabbed Wednesday afternoon at the Lompoc maximum-security penitentiary near Vandenberg Air Force Base. The guards' conditions and identities, as well as the circumstances under which ...
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Water Monitoring Day Seeks to Make a Splash Worldwide

On Saturday, Oct. 18, America's Clean Water Foundation is sponsoring World Water Monitoring Day. During the past month the foundation has given people the opportunity to test their water and enter the...
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UC To Scrutinize Admissions

Admissions throughout the UC system will now undergo a review of admissions policy, but the scope of the review and the makeup of the study group that will undertake it have not yet been announced.
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Locals Seek Solutions to Erosion of Goleta Beach

The future of Goleta Beach remains uncertain after a meeting held Wednesday night to discuss possible solutions to the beach's erosion problem. Goleta Beach lost 200 feet of beach width after the 1983...
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Professor Gives Talk on Middle East Conflict

"We need to begin by acknowledging one simple fact, on one level, and some things aren't as complex as they're made out to be. And that is we are sad. We are sad that after 3 years of intifada, almost...
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