News

April 3, 2002

IVRPD May Allow Sleeping in Parks

By Marisa Lagos

The Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District will a hold a meeting tonight in order to gather public input about the possibility of allowing sleeping in public I.V. parks.

April 3, 2002

Local Foundation Holds Leadership Conference

By Lana Burrows

UCSB's Corwin Pavilion will be open to the public as a site for workshops, forums and guest speakers as part of the "Youth at the Millennium" globalization and youth leadership conference.

April 3, 2002

Students Return to New Sidewalks

By Rebecca Turek

Del Playa Drive residents returning from spring break may have been pleasantly surprised when they stepped out of their car onto one of the many new sidewalks in Isla Vista.

April 2, 2002

IVFP Sees Less Crime Over Break

By Ladan Moeenziai

Vacant homes during the Thanksgiving, Winter and Spring Breaks in past years have been targets for burglars, but this Spring the Isla Vista Foot Patrol reported a comparatively lower number of break-ins.

April 2, 2002

UCSB Provides Organic Garden Plots

By Sarah Healy

The campus organic garden sits on two acres and provides a place where students, faculty and staff can rent plots for growing flowers, vegetables or fruit for less than $30 a year.

April 2, 2002

New Course Looks at I.V. Community

By Laurie Bongard Reporter

David Machacek, an academic coordinator in the Religious Studies Dept., has had students in his Writing 109 class conduct research projects on the quality of life in Isla Vista.

April 2, 2002

Livermore Lab Searches for New Director

By Josh Braun

The Committee to Advise the [University of California] President on the Selection of a Director for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) met in closed session on Wednesday, March 27 to review applications and no...

April 2, 2002

UCen Dining Services Plans Expansion

By Traci Bank

To help fill the ever increasing number of faculty, staff and student stomachs on campus, UCen Dining Services is planning a 3,000-square foot expansion of the Arbor and construction of a new caf

April 2, 2002

CEOs Speak at Annual ‘Entreprenuership 101’ Conference

By Lisa Cooper

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management held its annual Entrepreneurship 101 conference in Corwin Pavilion on Saturday, March 9.

April 2, 2002

New Review Requests Submissions

By Jessica Jardine

The Law and Society Review, recently established by UCSB Law and Society Program Chair Eve Darian-Smith as the nation's first online publication for undergraduate law and society majors, began taking submissions Monday.

April 1, 2002

What’s gone wrong in Montecito

By Staff

Crabgrass. Leased Lexuses. Mid-priced wine. Turgid brie. Gas-powered leaf-blowers shattering the morning silence. Un-neutered dogs mating in the streets. When you add it all up, it has some Montecitans wondering what's g...

April 1, 2002

Sheriff-elect Anderson shave mustache, dyes hair

By Marisa Luis Minenez Staff Writer

Is a new hairdo and shave reason enough to lose a job in Santa Barbara County?If you ask Sheriff Jim Thomas, it is.

April 1, 2002

Nanosystems Institute cures parking problem with very small cars

By Josh Braun

The proposed construction site for the new California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) building will eliminate 1,407 parking spaces at UCSB.

April 1, 2002

Now we’re treating you with respect, you worthless morons

By Eric Simons

We hold our readers in high regard here at the News-Suppress.

April 1, 2002

College Republican American Hero Lecture: Saten, Hitler, Simon

By Eric Simons

The UCSB College Republicans announced a lineup for the fall, 2002 "American Heroes" lecture series that includes several well-known conservatives as well as unknown conservative Bill Simon, Jr., the Republican candidate...

April 1, 2002

Isla Vista building delayed by berrinal, urinal pools

By Josh Braun and Anne Griffen Staff Writers

Local environmental groups are mounting a campaign to oppose the construction of new sidewalks in Isla Vista on the grounds that such improvements would be damaging to local wildlife.