News

February 1, 2001

Local Group Raises Funds to Aid Indian Disaster Relief

By Alex Sohn

The India Association of Santa Barbara launched a relief effort to raise money and awareness at UCSB for the 500,000 Indian Earthquake survivors.

February 1, 2001

Police Suspect Three Males in Robberies

By Staff

On Tuesday morning, three Asian males dressed in suits, two armed with semi-automatic handguns and one with a black briefcase, invaded and ransacked a Goleta residence, tying up a 26-year-old woman who was temporarily wa...

February 1, 2001

Council Opposes I.V. House Party Registration, Takes Stand Behind Boycott of PictSweet Mushrooms

By Angela Potter

Parties, mushrooms and gambling sparked discussion at Wednesday night's Associated Students Legislative Council meeting, leading the council to unanimously pass two resolutions in protest of mandatory party registration ...

February 1, 2001

Feature Photo: ‘Si, Se Puede!’

By Staff

PictSweet Mushrooms farmworker Jesus Torres shares his hardships in fieldwork during a rally Wednesday in Storke Plaza.

January 31, 2001

Environmentalists Fight UC Over Potential Merced Campus

By Brendan Buhler, Nick Pascal

Puddles, simple depressions in the ground filled with rainwater three months a year, could swamp the $400 million plans for the next University of California campus.

January 31, 2001

UCSB Lunchtime Performances Draw Crowds to International Music

By Michera Colella Staff Writer

Wednesday at noon - the sun is shining, the campus is bustling, and in a little haven behind Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, music is playing.

January 31, 2001

Robbers Tie Up Victim, Ransack Goleta House

By Staff

Two male suspects dressed in suits burglarized a home Tuesday morning, holding a temporary caretaker at gunpoint.

January 31, 2001

Feature Photo: Artist Janna Stern

By Staff

January 30, 2001

Tanner Lecturer Speaks About National Healthcare Concerns

By Christine Bai

Dr William Richardson, the chief executive officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, lectured Monday afternoon in Corwin Pavilion on the state of healthcare in the United ...

January 30, 2001

Housing Panel Reviews Future Urban Growth

By Matt Sweetland

Santa Barbara residents gathered in the Schott Center at Santa Barbara Community College for the second installment of the three-part lecture series, "The Ocean in Trouble." This week's lecture, "Smart Gro...

January 29, 2001

Santa Barbara Youths Skip Super Bowl To Collect Food for Poor

By Ladan Moeenziai

Youth groups across the country collected donations Sunday in the Souper Bowl of Caring.

January 29, 2001

Rolling a Mile in Someone Else’s Chair — A Nexus Reporter Goes Wheelchair Bound and Learns the Oxymoron of ‘Handicap Access’

By Julia Rubin

"It can happen in a second," senior psychology major Erin Fowler tells me on the morning of our UCSB wheelchair tour. "The free para-gliding lesson was a present from a friend for my 20th birthday. Conditi...

January 29, 2001

Planning the Newest UC: 5,000 Students by 2010 — University Says Merced Campus Will Spur Growth in Valley

By Brendan Buhler, Nick Pascal

After two decades of searching, the University of California has settled on the location of its 10th campus: Merced, a city of just over 100,000 people in the middle of the Central Valley. This article, the first in a tw...

January 29, 2001

Fake Money Angers A.S.

By Stephanie Tavares

Associated Students discovered two counterfeit $10 bills in its coffers last week.

January 29, 2001

UCSB Removes Sweatshop Products Found in Bookstores

By Joseph Martinez

Sweatshop laborers in the world's developing countries work in poorly ventilated factories for 10-14 hours a day. When clothing made under these conditions appeared in UCSB's Bookstore a few months ago, students complain...

January 29, 2001