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UCSB’s New GLBT Director

In October, UCSB was blessed with a new director for the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Samuel Santos. Santos started his career at UC San Diego and has worked with college students for quite some time now, helping to increase tolerance and create a safe space for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) community.

Waging Peace at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Dennis Apel was sitting in Santa Barbara’s federal courtroom last Thursday morning with two of his coconspirators in crime, quietly sweating some of the possible, if unlikely, outcomes confronting them. The matter before the federal magistrate was strictly procedural-a two-month delay in their arraignment, which by any reckoning would seem a slam dunk.

New Year’s Eve Guide

The best way to ring in the New Year is with a proper goodbye to the old year. For some, that might mean curling up on the couch with a bucket of ice cream and watching a favorite movie; others might want to hit that party where a lampshade on your head is appropriate attire.

A Medical Team Gives Aid to the Homeless

By the Moreton Bay Fig Tree, across from the flood control tunnels that run under the 101 and a million miles from the Santa Barbara of the Conference and Visitors’ Bureau, a band of volunteer doctors and social workers search for sick homeless people. I followed this Doctors Without Walls (DWW) street medicine team on their Wednesday night rounds a few times this fall, watched them bandage up skin infections and measure the blood pressure of people no one wants to deal with.

Coach Charged With Sexual Assault

Former Santa Barbara High School assistant tennis coach Peter Jeschke was arrested on Friday, December 14 for unlawful sex with a minor, possession of marijuana, and driving on a suspended license

Frimpong Found Guilty of Rape

The former UCSB soccer player was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old student late Monday afternoon.

Close of Friday, December 14

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