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February 4, 2003

Sports Talk Inspires Women

By Melissa Thomas-Anderson

The national event began in 1986 in recognition of Title IX, an education amendment adopted in 1972 that prohibits sexual discrimination in all education programs or activities that receive federal funds.

February 4, 2003

I.V. Community Center Plan To Seek Approval

By Jenny Mayock

The I.V. Community Center Task Force heard presentations from the project designers and consultants at a meeting Monday night at 961 Embarcadero del Mar.

February 4, 2003

Queer Student Union Raises Funds for UC Conference Trip

By Zaviaire Williams Reporter

The Queer Student Union is working to raise money to send 35 students to the University of California Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Association conference later this month in Riverside.

February 4, 2003

City of Goleta Celebrates 1st Birthday

By Drew Mackie

The motion passed with a 4-1 vote, with Hawxhurst dissenting because he felt many of the thresholds were poorly worded or irrelevant to Goleta.

February 4, 2003

Living Room Struggles to Find New Home

By Jessica Jardine

Located at 430 S. Fairview Ave., in the Airport Plaza, the alcohol- and drug-free venue will need to clear out so that the property owner, ORIX Equity Development of Chicago, can erect a large office complex on the site.

February 4, 2003

UC Briefs: February 4, 2003

By Stephanie Tavares Staff Writer Travis Hunter Staff Writer

The two 17-year-old suspects and one 16-year-old suspect will be tried as adults on counts of rape, rape in concert, oral copulation and oral copulation in concert with force.

February 3, 2003

Shuttle Losses Hit Home for Project Veterans

By Josh Braun

Santa Barbara County was once home to the space shuttle. It was to be launched from the California coast only weeks after the Challenger disaster forced the military to give up the program. A few people remain from the S...

February 3, 2003

SB County Firefighter Dies on Duty

By Jennifer B. Siverts

A Gaviota firefighter died Saturday of what officials said appeared to be a massive heart attack. The death of 51-year-old Moseley is the first on-the-job death the department has experienced since 1967, Johnson said.

February 3, 2003

Lecture To Focus on Women’s Sports

By Missy Maynarich

In the midst of a renewed national debate over Title IX, professional volleyball player and 1988 United States Olympian Liz Masakayan is kicking off National Girls & Women in Sports Week at UCSB with a lecture on her lif...

February 3, 2003

Police Arrest 2 Boys for Bomb in Parking Lot

By Kristina Ackermann

On Sunday, Jan. 26 a homemade bomb was thrown in the parking lot of Albertsons on Calle Real in Goleta. The device exploded at about 4:40 p.m., causing no damage.

February 3, 2003

Federal Report Shows Abuses of Lab Funding

By Josh Braun

Over $1.5 million in lab property was lost by or stolen from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb, between 2000 and 2002, a recent government report says.

February 3, 2003

Ship Hosts UCSB Students for Marine Geology Research

By Christine Bai

Studying the San Clemente Basin in a book is one thing. Studying it on a ship is something else entirely. The students lived at sea for five days and mapped an area of the basin where a hole appears to exist in a ripped ...

February 3, 2003

The Band Who Played Wolf

By system

January 31, 2003

UCSB Runner Eyes Sea-to-Sea Bid

By Daniel Haier

When Peter Goren embarks this summer on a cross-country "journey run" from Sands Beach in Isla Vista to Sand Beach in Maine, he will have as many miles of pain, hardship, sweat and fatigue behind him as he will in front ...

January 31, 2003

State Ponders Changes to CCC Bylaws

By Drew Mackie

On Thursday, the State Assembly voted to change the terms of California Coastal Commission (CCC) appointees to fixed, two-year terms to satisfy an appellate court ruling that deemed the current structure unconstitutional...