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UCSB Plans More Housing for Grad Students, Faculty

Campus housing project plans are in the works as UCSB continues the struggle to accommodate faculty, graduate students and student families in need of inexpensive living quarters.
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Task Force Debates Possible GE Changes

The Academic Senate is considering revising the university's general education requirements, which would narrow choices in some areas but allow students to take more electives.
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UC To Face Budget Cut for ’02-’03

After seven years without raising undergraduate student fees, the regents talked of fee hikes along with a host of possible cost-cutting methods Wednesday in their meeting at UC San Francisco.
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UCSB Researchers Discover Island Off SB Coast

Researchers at UCSB recently discovered a submerged island off the Santa Barbara coast, which has been named Isla Calafia after a mythical queen who once ruled a Utopian island of beautiful, warrior w...
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Fight Breaks Out During Party at I.V. Fraternity

According to the Isla Vista Foot Patrol police report, officers found 19-year-old Ryan Smith sitting on the curb in front of the fraternity house holding a towel to his lower lip. An approximately two...
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Court Postpones Rape Suspect’s Arraignment

Rape and kidnapping suspect Luis Canseco will not be arraigned until Thursday, after a judge continued the hearing to allow the defendant time to consult with a public defender.
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UCSB Considers Escort Service for Minority Students

The Graduate Students Association (GSA) is proposing an escort service for Middle Eastern and minority students who feel threatened by backlash from the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Tra...
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Police Report

A Cop’s “Intuition” At approximately 12:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 14, Isla Vista Foot Patrol deputies patrolling the 6600 block of Del Playa Drive observed an 18-year-old female sta...
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Detectives Arrest Rape Suspect

Luis Canseco, a 31-year-old Isla Vista resident, was arrested Friday, Oct. 12 on suspicion of rape and kidnapping, following a weeklong police investigation.
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Suspicious Powder Causes Santa Maria Anthrax Scare

County Fire and Hazardous Materials personnel and Public Health officials responded to a potential anthrax scare in Santa Maria and Orcutt on Monday afternoon.
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Drive Attracts Marrow Donors

Caucasians have a one in 100 chance of finding a marrow donor match, Latinos one in 100,000, and African-Americans one in 500,000," said Senior global studies major and Nu Alpha Kappa member Felipe In...
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Goleta Council Candidates Discuss I.V. Annexation at City Incorporation Meeting

On Nov. 6, residents in the 93117 zip code - excluding eastern Goleta and Isla Vista - will be voting on the future of Goleta, Isla Vista and UCSB.
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