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Campaigns Deplete Funds

October 28, 2002 by

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

October 28, 2002 by

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.
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California Democrats Mourn Dead Senator

October 28, 2002 by

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 northeast...
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#1 Hoosiers Overcome Feisty Santa Barbara

October 28, 2002 by

#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 Full...
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Vietnam Era Insider Gives Anti-War Talk

October 28, 2002 by

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.
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Armed Man Holds Up I.V. Clothes Shop

October 25, 2002 by

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.
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SD Student May Sue SB Sheriff’s Dept.

October 25, 2002 by

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 Departme...
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Researchers To Unravel Spider Silk Secrets

October 25, 2002 by

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.
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SB Continues to Evaluate Living Wage

October 25, 2002 by

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 targete...
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Run To Benefit Fight Against Breast Cancer

October 25, 2002 by

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 ...
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IVRPD Bends Rules for Celebration

October 25, 2002 by

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 Mexica...
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Car Flips, Lands Three in ICU

October 24, 2002 by

Three UCSB students are in the intensive care unit of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after an accident on Highway 217 Wednesday afternoon.
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Freshmen Find Comfort in Fish Away From Home

October 24, 2002 by

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.
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I.V. Planning Committees Review, Prioritize Report

October 24, 2002 by

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.
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Leg Council Meeting Focuses on Phone Voting

October 24, 2002 by

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.
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