News

April 30, 2002

Feature Photo: Don’t Bite the Mic

By Staff

April 26, 2002

Nader Joins Annual March

By Alison Tearnen

Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader joined Santa Barbara's second annual People's March for Economic Justice on Saturday and gave a lecture about corporate abuses later that night at Isla Vista Theater.

April 26, 2002

Fields of Dreams Intiative Fails

By Sarah Healy

On this week's spring ballots, the $1.75 Women's Center and MultiCultural Center lock-in fees passed, and the $33.83 Sports and Activity Facility lock-in fee failed, but the margins are still unknown.

April 26, 2002

Witnesses Characterize Attias

By Drew Mackie

The David Attias murder trial continued on Friday, with multiple character witnesses who lived near Attias in Francisco Torres during the 2000-01 academic year.

April 26, 2002

Author Puts History of I.V. on Internet

By Lana Burrows

Longtime Isla Vista activist Carmen Lodise will launch a website version of his book Isla Vista: A Citizen's History from Chumash Times to the Present.

April 26, 2002

Regents Delay Lab Director Selection

By Staff

The University of California Board of Regents postponed the appointment of the new director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally scheduled to be announced last Friday in a conference call to all UC schoo...

April 26, 2002

Ralph Nader To Speak at People’s March

By Rebecca Turek

Three-time Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader will speak at the second annual Santa Barbara People's March for Economic Justice this Saturday.

April 26, 2002

County Passes Oil Company Ordinance

By Kristina Ackermann

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance last Tuesday, which requires oil companies to undergo a thorough evaluation before they start up their business.

April 26, 2002

Grad Students Pass Five New Fees, New Constituion for GSA

By Sarah Healy

A record 900 graduate students passed five lock-in fees and approved an item that amends the Graduate Student Association (GSA) constitution with a new constitution.

April 26, 2002

Campus Group To Hold Health Care Conference

By Cameron Balakhanpour

Doctors in a town near Los Angeles known as Bell Gardens have an average of over 150 times more patients than their Beverly Hills counterparts. They're cramped; they're paid less and their community needs more of them.

April 26, 2002

UC Briefs: April 29, 2002

By Staff

The UC Berkeley administration recently decided that the school's fraternities and sororities will not be allowed to have alcohol at parties in chapter houses at least until the end of Spring Semester...

April 26, 2002

Club To Host Filipino Night

By Jessica Jardine

On Saturday evening, UCSB Kapatirang Pilipino club's 11th annual Pilipino Cultural Night, titled "Pieces of the Puzzle," will be held at Campbell Hall.

April 24, 2002

Testimony Begins in Attias

By Kirk Hawkins and Drew Mackie Staff Writers

The David Attias murder trial continued Tuesday with testimony from character witnesses, including Attias' suitemates, all of whom refused to make eye contact with the defendant.

April 24, 2002

Campfire Caring

By Curtis Brainard

It's 6:30 a.m. I'm asleep ... or at least I was asleep. Now there's a 13-year-old camper kneeling beside my bunk, trying to glue my head to the pillow by smearing extra-hold hair gel all over one side of my face. It's th...

April 24, 2002

S.A.C. Sweeps A.S. Elections

By Angela Potter, Diana Ray

The Student Action Coalition rode a record turnout in to a complete sweep in the candidate elections, taking all four executive offices and winning every one of the 23 seats it contested.

April 24, 2002