News

January 11, 2002

Four Vie for SB County Sheriff Position

By Michael Porzucki

As the March election nears, four candidates have stepped up to fill the position of Santa Barbara County Sheriff in a hard-fought campaign amidst contentious endorsements.

January 11, 2002

UCSB Briefs

By Sarah Gorback, Angela Potter

UCSB Nobel Prize Winner Awarded Top Engineering Medal UCSB professor and Nobel Prize winner Herbert Kroemer has been awarded the 2002 Medal of Honor by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Kroemer was g...

January 10, 2002

UCSB Cuts Available Parking

By Diana Ray

Parking services restricted 218 parking spaces previously available to C permit holders - mostly students - to staff (S) and faculty (A) permit holders during Winter Break.

January 10, 2002

Plover Researchers To Request Fence Funding

By Eric Simons Staff Writer Rebecca Turek Staff Writer

UCSB's Coal Oil Point Reserve will turn in an application for a grant this Friday to pay for permanent fencing around the habitat of endangered western snowy plovers on Sands Beach.

January 10, 2002

Capps Advocates Support for International Students

By Drew Atkins

Capps said foreign students were important to America's diversity and progress, and their rights needed to be respected as security measures increase.

January 10, 2002

New Pump House Improves EEMB Seawater Access

By Stephanie Tavares

After 18 months of construction and $9.2 million in state money, the Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Department now has access to some of the freshest water for research - freshest salt water that is.

January 10, 2002

SB Youth Arrested For Possession of Illegal Explosives

By Ladan Moeenziai

A Santa Barbara High School student was booked into juvenile hall on Monday, after Sheriff's deputies found enough materials at his home to make at least four pipe bombs.

January 9, 2002

North Couty Group Seeks Redisticting

By Elizabeth Lovero

Citizens for County Organization (CCO) is seeking to create a new county north of the Santa Ynez Mountains as a solution to increasing population and what it perceives to be cultural differences in the rural area and a m...

January 9, 2002

City Council Debates Zoning

By Kirk Hawkins Staff Writer

One month away from incorporation, the new city of Goleta is tackling development right off the bat: a proposed housing project, called the Village at Los Carneros.

January 9, 2002

Marshall To Chair SB Board of Supervisors

By Marisa Lagos

As chair, Marshall will run the board's weekly meetings, represent the county on several statewide committees, including the California State Association of Counties, and act as chair of the county's Flood Control Distri...

January 9, 2002

Heater May Be Cause of Picasso Fire

By Rebecca Turek

The fire that tore through an apartment at 6651 Picasso Rd. on Nov. 30, leaving two people dead and two others injured, may have been caused by a space heater, authorities say.

January 8, 2002

Male Student Dies in San Nicolas Hall

By Eric Simons

Campus police responded to a 911 call from the residence hall at 9:42 a.m. and discovered Leo Lydon unconscious and unresponsive, a UCPD statement said. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.

January 8, 2002

UCSA Lobbies for Three Main Goals in ’01-’02

By Stephanie Tavares

The University of California Student Association is working this year to get money for student housing while lobbying against a state budget cut that would leave the UC with less funding.

January 8, 2002

Police Report Drop in Isla Vista Burglaries

By Ladan Moeenziai

Home burglaries in Isla Vista significantly declined in 2001, while the number of sexual assaults, alcohol-related offenses and arrests for couch fires did not change notably in the last year.

January 8, 2002