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Future Student Regent Named

May 19, 2003 by Stephanie Tavares

Jodi L. Anderson, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in UC Los Angeles' school of education, was chosen to follow current student regent-designate Matthew J. Murray, a UC Berkeley senior architecture ma...
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Ceremony To Kick Off Black Culture Week

May 19, 2003 by Jason La

This week UCSB will celebrate African-American culture and heritage with Black Culture Week. The culture week is coordinated by the Black Student Union (BSU), and more than half a dozen on-campus and ...
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High School Seeks Funds for New Pool

May 19, 2003 by Daniel Haier

A feasibility study has drowned plans for an $8.5 million aquatic and recreation complex at Dos Pueblos High School, but a smaller renovation and pool construction project is still set to leave Goleta...
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UC Appoints New Director for Los Alamos Lab

May 19, 2003 by Staff

Pete Nanos, the interim director of the embattled Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been asked to be its permanent chief. University of California President Richard Atkinson told regents Thursday th...
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Grants To Assist Local Environmental Projects

May 19, 2003 by Lacadia Olsen

April showers have brought green to the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper in the form of $5,000 grants from the International Academy at Santa Barbara.
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Volunteers Take Action to Help SB Tykes

May 19, 2003 by Lauren Eardensohn

The Santa Barbara Children and Families Commission (SBCFC) accepted a $75,000 matching grant from the Orfalea Family Foundation on May 13, for the Commission's third Spruce Up For Kids Day, which is s...
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Indian Club To Host Cultural Celebration

May 19, 2003 by Meghan Palma

Those who know little of the ancient Vedic culture of India should be prepared for an awakening when the UCSB Bhakti-Yoga Club presents the 8th annual Festival of India, a hands-on exposure to the foo...
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Why You Frontin’?

May 19, 2003 by Staff

‘Buffy’ Fans To Unite for Final Show

May 19, 2003 by Drew Mackie

Students have a chance to watch Buffy before she - like the vampires she stakes - bites the dust. The Santa Barbara Film Society is sponsoring a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" farewell party tonight at 7 ...
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Author To Relate Islamic, U.S. Culture

May 19, 2003 by Daily Nexus Staff

People looking to establish a connection between their lives in Santa Barbara and war in the Middle East are invited to a lecture by essayist and journalist Pico Iyer on Wednesday. The lecture is sche...
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A.S. Finance Board Empties Its Pockets

May 19, 2003 by Jason La

In its final meeting of the year, A.S. Finance Board allocated the last of its funds to three on-campus groups. The board also recommended against the passage of bill being proposed to Leg Council on ...
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May 20, 2003

May 19, 2003 by Staff

Saturday, May 17, at 12:35 a.m.: Isla Vista Foot Patrol officers observed the beginnings of a street fight at the intersection of Camino Pescadero and Sabado Tarde Road. A woman approached two men sta...
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Feature Photo

May 19, 2003 by Staff

Connerly Faces UC Opposition

May 16, 2003 by The Associated Press

A decade of debate over the place of race in academics flared anew Thursday as University of California regents formally opposed fellow regent Ward Connerly's new campaign to ban collecting race data.
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