News

May 15, 2001

Much Ado About Nothing: Lecturers Hold UCSB Seminar on Nothingness

By Josh Braun

Nothing can hold people's attention for two days. Specifically, a conference on "nothingness" held the attention of a full crowd in Buchanan 1910 last weekend.

May 15, 2001

Annual Free Concert Will Satisfy All Musical Tastes

By Scott Davis

Associated Students Program Board has announced the lineup for the 2001 Extravaganza concert, which will be held on Robertson Field this year while new sod is laid in Harder Stadium.

May 15, 2001

Feature Photo: It Slices, It Dices, It Bewilders Passersby

By Staff

This sculpture, donated by internationally known artist George Rickey, stands adjacent to the University Art Museum.

May 15, 2001

Police Blotter

By Staff

True Stories of the Isla Vista Foot Patrol!

May 14, 2001

Drama Major Collapses Onstage

By Brendan Buhler

Greg D'Amico, a 20-year-old dramatic art major, lost consciousness and died on stage at 9:30 p.m. on May 10 while performing at the Studio Theater in Snidecor Hall.

May 14, 2001

Distracted Motorist Strikes 2 Lecturers in I.V. Friday Night

By Marisa Lagos

At approximately 9:20 p.m. on Friday evening a vehicle struck two pedestrians crossing Embarcadero del Norte at Cervantes Road.

May 14, 2001

Locals Gather to March for Economic Justice

By Kate Shaw

Eight hundred people from around Santa Barbara County flooded State Street on Saturday for the First Annual People's March for Economic Justice.

May 14, 2001

Seminar Ends With Talks on Social, Economic, Environmental Concerns

By Rebecca Turek

Approximately 100 people filled Isla Vista Theater on Saturday night to attend the final installment of the Many Faces of the Environment, a conference focused on promoting discussion concerning environmental injustice.

May 14, 2001

Feature Photo: Here Come the Brides

By Staff

Jill Rodriguez, a resident of Santa Barbara, is swept off her feet by senior women's studies major Colten Tognazzini during the 10th annual Queer Wedding on Friday.

May 11, 2001

Downtown Labor March To Protest Economic Injustice

By Marisa Lagos Jennifer B. Siverts Staff Writers

Labor activists will take to the streets this Saturday to protest as they educate locals of economic inequalities within Santa Barbara in the People's March for Economic Justice.

May 11, 2001

Campus Labor Action Coalition Sues Santa Barbara

By Kristin Davis Reporter

The Campus Labor Action Coalition (CLAC) ran into problems trying to organize Saturday's March for Economic Justice and filed a lawsuit against the city of Santa Barbara to clear up permit procedures it found confusing a...

May 11, 2001

Visiting UCSB Alum Professor, Students Develop Universal Bill of Human Rights

By Sarah Healy Staff Writer Brian Henley Reporter

Political science professor Kirk Boyd, a UCSB alumnus visiting the campus this quarter as a lecturer, and a group of students are continuing Roosevelt's vision by developing a website, which lays out a basic framework fo...

May 10, 2001

Press Council Picks Nexus Editor in Chief

By Staff

The decade-long tradition of transition is upon the staff of the Daily Nexus, and a new space monkey has volunteered for the insomnial duty of editor in chief.

May 10, 2001

Little League Fights for Park

By Rebecca Turek

Santa Barbara County supervisors Gail Marshall and Susan Rose recommended Wednesday that the county donate $800,000 to help Dos Pueblos Little League remain at the baseball fields located adjacent to Girsh Park in Goleta...

May 10, 2001

Leg Council Debates Trustee Accounts

By Eric Simons

Students lined up outside the door Wednesday night to speak to Associated Students Legislative Council on behalf of its campus organizations.

May 10, 2001

Film To Introduce Activist Julia Butterfly Hill to UCSB

By Stephen Hall

Before Julia Butterfly Hill climbed a 200-foot redwood tree to protest logging in December of 1997, she had never been involved in environmental activism.