News

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...

January 31, 2003

Police Target Seatbelt Violators

By Jenny Mayock

For Isla Vista residents, the beginning of 2003 marked an increased presence of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), as well as a related increase in traffic tickets. In 2001, the CHP issued 206,480 seatbelt tickets in C...

January 31, 2003

Student Magician Dazzles Vegas

By Brendan Kearns

National champion is a title synonymous with ESPN coverage, Wheaties boxes and peerless excellence. While one UCSB student lacks the television exposure and cereal box appearances, he embodies the truest characteristic o...

January 31, 2003

NSF Awards Funding for Grad Studies

By Chris Hampton

Two UC Santa Barbara graduate programs received multimillion dollar grants to fund research last week, a third was to made available to graduate students at all UCs.

January 31, 2003

IVRPD Upgrades Sue–o Park

By Jennifer Verissimo

Thanks to some elbow grease from the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD), Sueno Park has gotten a major facelift.

January 29, 2003

Nobel Winners Oppose U.S. War With Iraq

By Travis Hunter

The signers of a recent anti-war statement believe you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know the United States should not go to war with Iraq - you just have to be a chemist or theoretical physicist.

January 29, 2003

I.V. Search Yields Two Arrests

By Jennifer B. Siverts

Twenty-five authorities made up of I.V. Foot Patrol officers, Santa Barbara Sheriff's detectives, UC Police Dept. detectives and probation officers went to 16 different locations in I.V. on Jan. 28 on a probation sweep.

January 29, 2003

Meeting Addresses Beach Conservation

By Lacadia Olsen

Heads butted last night at a community meeting concerning the preservation of Goleta Beach, a local landmark slowly being washed away by the ocean's current and El Ni–o's winter storms.

January 29, 2003

Unarmed Criminal Robs Goleta Bank

By Nexus Staff Report

A yet unidentified man robbed a branch of the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust on Thursday, Jan. 23 at about 3:30 p.m. The bank did not disclose the amount of money the alleged thief stole.

January 29, 2003

BD/SM 102 Dispels Myths

By Cory Anthony

HeadSpace, a Santa Barbara queer organization, held a BD/SM - bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism - seminar Tuesday night at 7 on the second floor of Girvetz Hall.