News

June 26, 2002

UCSB Expands 2002 Class Offerings

By Alexis Adkins Reporter

In the second year of state-sponsored Summer Sessions, UCSB is seeing more students, more classes and a new program for incoming freshmen.

June 26, 2002

Marshall Recall Election Likely in November

By Drew Mackie

The campaign working against the recall of 3rd District Supervisor Gail Marshall achieved a critical victory that will likely put the recall election on the November ballot.

June 26, 2002

Careless Co-op Smoker Causes Damaging Fire

By Drew Mackie

The Isla Vista Cooperative will begin reconstruction today after a fire on June 7 caused excessive smoke damage and filled the streets of I.V. with the scent of smoking granola.

June 26, 2002

UC Deliberates Settlement for SAASB Repairs

By Stephanie Tavares

The University of California Regents are tying up litigation with the architectural company responsible for the faulty design of UCSB's Student Affairs and Administrative Services Building.

June 26, 2002

Goleta Files Suit Against Airport Extension Plans

By Kristina Ackermann

The city of Goleta and Santa Barbara ChannelKeeper filed a lawsuit Thursday, June 6 in an attempt to overturn the April 9 decision to expand Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.

June 26, 2002

Students Take Advantage of EMT Experience

By Sarah Gorback

Some students prepare for medical school by studying organic chemistry, taking a Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) prep course or interning at a doctor's office. Others, like the 16 UCSB student emergency medical tec...

June 26, 2002

Prospective Vice Chancellor Awaits UC Approval

By Jason La

The University of California Santa Barbara named an Oregon administrator the new permanent vice chancellor of administrative services earlier this month.

June 26, 2002

Goleta’s New Paper Hits Newstands

By Brendan Buhler

The South Coast Beacon is two issues old today. Tom Bolton and William Macfadyen, the two top editors at a paper of 18, try to explain why they started a 20,000-circulation paper for the new city of Goleta.

June 26, 2002

UC Briefs: June 26, 2002

By Staff

The spoof issue of UC Davis' student-run California Aggie has provoked an outcry that may send the incoming editor in chief searching for a new job.

June 6, 2002

Jury Finds Attias Guilty of Murder

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias showed little emotion on Wednesday afternoon as Judge Thomas Adams read guilty verdicts for all four second-degree murder charges to the former UCSB student and a packed courtroom.

June 6, 2002

Defense Rests Case in Sanity Phase

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias was legally insane when he murdered four people and almost killed a fifth last year, according to two psychiatrists who have testified for the defense.

June 6, 2002

Jury Declares Attias Insane

By Marisa Lagos

David Attias was legally insane on February 23, 2001, when he killed four people, and seriously injured another person, a jury found on Thursday.

June 6, 2002

IVFP Re-Arrests Pike Member for Resisting

By Staff

Russell Bryant Lester, a 21-year-old UCSB junior and member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, was arrested by Isla Vista Foot Patrol deputies on various drug-related charges on May 18.

June 6, 2002

UC Cancels Fall 2002 EAP in India After State Dept. Alarm

By Cameron Balakhanpour

The University of California Office of the President announced Wednesday that the Education Abroad Program in India will be suspended for the Fall 2002 term in light of increasing tensions with neighboring Pakistan.

June 6, 2002

UC Approves New National Lab Director

By Josh Braun

UC President Richard Atkinson appointed Michael Anastasio the next director of the lab on Tuesday. The regents approved the appointment and Anastasio, formerly Livermore's deputy director for strategic operations, will t...

June 6, 2002

SB Citizens Take Sides Over North, South County Split

By Elizabeth Lovero

A group of North County residents called The Responsible Taxpayers Against the County Split (R-TAX) hopes to keep Santa Barbara County from splitting in two in 2005.