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October 16, 2002

Local Wildlife Reserve Also Welcomes People

By Katie Sowell

The thrills of Isla Vista attract most UCSB students, but some choose to venture beyond Del Playa Drive and Sands Beach to explore the Coal Oil Point Reserve.

October 16, 2002

Tenacious Tar Sticks Around

By Courtney Weaver

Due to the high presence of tar, walking on Santa Barbara beaches can quickly become a sticky situation. But before you call the Environmental Protection Agency and start protesting oil drilling off the coast, there are ...

October 16, 2002

October 16, 2002

By Staff

On Friday, Oct. 11 at 10:39 a.m., IVFP officers responded to a report that someone was spitting in customers' food at Burger King on the 900 block of Embarcadero Del Mar.

October 15, 2002

MCC Fee Wins; A.S. Fails

By Stephanie Tavares

In UCSB's first-ever online election, students reaffirmed their support for the MultiCultural Center lock-in fee, but were less supportive of the Associated Students' base fee increase, which failed.

October 15, 2002

Employees Walk Out on UCSB

By Nathan Clarke

As offices around campus shut down and cars honked to support strikers Monday, UCSB made it through the first of three days without many of its clerical workers and lecturers.

October 15, 2002

UCSB Smokers May Have to Step Back

By Missy Maynarich

The Tobacco Control Ordinance, which bans smoking within 20 feet of businesses in Isla Vista and other unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County, was passed in November 2001.

October 15, 2002

A.S., Marshall Approve New Blue Phones

By Kristina Ackermann

Third District County Supervisor Gail Marshall is working with the Associated Students Safety Committee to identify appropriate locations for blue light emergency phones.

October 15, 2002

Police Cite Eight at DUI Checkpoint

By Jennifer B. Siverts

The UCSB Police Dept. and California Highway Patrol set up the Driving Under the Influence checkpoint on El Colegio Road between Stadium Road and Ocean Road from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m.

October 15, 2002

Robot ‘Judy’ Center of Futuristic Theater Piece

By Travis Cannell

As computers continue to become faster, smaller and cheaper, some cognitive scientists wonder if tomorrow's computers will ever match human intelligence and become self-aware.

October 15, 2002

Pentagon Thrusts Missile into Pacific Sky

By Josh Braun

The strange lights in the Santa Barbara sky last night were not indicative of the second coming. They were, however, the latest in a series of missile defense tests held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in north Santa Barbar...

October 14, 2002

C.U.E., UC-AFT To Begin Strike

By Cara Boroda

The Coalition of University Employees and the University Council-American Federation of Teachers will begin a systemwide strike this week after recent negotiations with the University of California failed.

October 14, 2002

Plover Summer of Love Yields 14 Hatchlings

By Drew Mackie

The endangered western snowy plovers of Isla Vista's Sands Beach hatched 16 chicks from nine nests between the months of March and July. Of the 16 chicks, 14 survived to adulthood.

October 14, 2002

Downtown Celebrates Coming Out Day

By Sara Smith

Approximately 20 people celebrated National Coming Out Day on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Plaza Del Mar Park in downtown Santa Barbara to support each other and reach out to those still in the closet.

October 14, 2002

UCSB Researchers Receive Funding For Rain Forest Study

By Nathan Clarke

In the first phase of a two-phase project, UCSB researchers found last April that the amount of CO2 discharged is triple that of earlier estimates.

October 14, 2002

Twisted Sister

By Staff

Chad Bishop,aka Buffy, gets down and dirty during "her" rendition of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" at the Santa Barbara Gay Pride Festival held in downtown SB's De la Guerra Plaza.

October 11, 2002

PAC Hits I.V. Traffic Jam

By Kristina Ackermann

The Project Area Committee (PAC) and the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) held meetings on Wednesday and Thursday evening to discuss Isla Vista's transportation and parking issues with members of the community.