News

October 28, 2002

Campaigns Deplete Funds

By Kristina Ackermann

With time for campaigning rapidly dwindling, parties on both sides of the recall campaign are spending money faster than they are taking it in.

October 28, 2002

Model May Conserve Groundwater Supply

By Haichi Fuerman Reporter

UCSB Professor of Geographical Sciences Hugo Loaiciga has invented a groundwater-pumping model that will help determine how much water landowners can pump without depleting shared aquifers.

October 28, 2002

California Democrats Mourn Dead Senator

By Jennifer B. Siverts

Only days before the Nov. 5 election, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, along with his wife, daughter, three campaign members and two pilots, died Friday morning when his airplane crashed in northeastern Minnesota.

October 28, 2002

#1 Hoosiers Overcome Feisty Santa Barbara

By Michael Long

#1 Indiana lived up to its reputation as a national power and showed the #17 UCSB men's soccer team the full meaning of tradition. The Gauchos lost 3-1 to the Hoosiers (13-2-2) on Sunday night in Fullerton in a nonconfer...

October 28, 2002

Vietnam Era Insider Gives Anti-War Talk

By Nathan Clarke

Hundreds filled Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on Friday for a presentation by the man partially responsible for the end of the Vietnam War and the Nixon presidency.

October 25, 2002

Armed Man Holds Up I.V. Clothes Shop

By Drew Mackie

Isla Vista Foot Patrol Lt. Tom McKinny said the suspect walked into the local clothes boutique, brandished a handgun and demanded money. The suspect then fled the scene.

October 25, 2002

SD Student May Sue SB Sheriff’s Dept.

By Drew Mackie

Peter Butcher, the 21-year-old UC San Diego student who was arrested and then cleared for three syringe attacks last April, has filed a claim of misconduct against the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department.

October 25, 2002

Researchers To Unravel Spider Silk Secrets

By Adam Brown

The U.S. Army and UCSB physics researchers have collaborated in search of a protein only found in dragline spider silk, the silk a spider weaves when it suspends itself.

October 25, 2002

SB Continues to Evaluate Living Wage

By Sara Smith

The ordinance provides a wage of $12.25 an hour without benefits to 211 temporary city employees of Santa Barbara. Joan Kent, Santa Barbara's assistant city administrator, said the living wage targeted the city's more sk...

October 25, 2002

Run To Benefit Fight Against Breast Cancer

By Marcile Vadell-Strickland

In commemoration of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, UCSB's Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority is holding its 2nd annual 5 kilometer "Kappa Dash" along the Campus Lagoon on Saturday to raise money for breast cancer resear...

October 25, 2002

IVRPD Bends Rules for Celebration

By Missy Maynarich

Halloween weekend will be a non-stop celebration in Anisq' Oyo' Park this year as the D’a de los Muertos festivities continue through sunrise with drumming and conch sounds to promote the Mexican tradition.

October 24, 2002

Car Flips, Lands Three in ICU

By Brendan Buhler

Three UCSB students are in the intensive care unit of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after an accident on Highway 217 Wednesday afternoon.

October 24, 2002

Freshmen Find Comfort in Fish Away From Home

By Chris Seabock

This fall, thousands of freshmen came to UCSB and suffered their first bout of homesickness. Often, it is induced by the memory of a furry companion they left at home.

October 24, 2002

I.V. Planning Committees Review, Prioritize Report

By Bonnie Holladay

The meeting, held at Isla Vista Elementary School, introduced a report summarizing a planning workshop held in April. Titled (Re)Vision Isla Vista, the report was divided into 10 chapters.

October 24, 2002

Leg Council Meeting Focuses on Phone Voting

By Jason La

A.S. Leg Council members, who did not meet last week in support of Coalition of University Employees' strike, primarily discussed a bill which would eliminate voting by phone.

October 23, 2002