National Geographic Photographer To Speak in Campbell on Sustainability
UCSB Arts & Lectures will host award-winning film-maker and photographer Mattias Klum in the debut of its new series, “National Geographic Live” this Sunday at 3 lp.m. in Campbell Hall. Klum’s talk, entitled “The Last Wild Places,” will focus on promoting sustainability and environmental awareness by showcasing footage from his latest expeditions in places like Africa, […]
Gauchos Searching for Six
The St. Mary’s women’s basketball team has never won a game in the Thunderdome and UCSB would like to keep it that way when it hosts the Gaels Saturday. UCSB currently holds a 2-4 record while St. Mary’s enters the game at 4-2. “It’s always important to win at home because road games are so […]
Local Student Housing To Participate in World Hunger Relief Project
Tropicana Student Housing will host a meal-packaging community service event this Saturday at the Tropicana Gardens Café through the international hunger relief agen- cy Stop Hunger Now. Started in 2005 by Tropicana Student Housing Executive Director Dave Wilcox, the Stop Hunger Now event assembles Tropicana students and staff to turn Tropicana Gardens Café into an […]
Three Gauchos Earn 2012 All-Big West Honors
Despite a season in which the UCSB women’s volleyball team finished 16-17 and 9-9 in the Big West conference, three players received great praise for their play this season. Freshman libero Taylor Formico and junior outside hitter Leah Sully were each named to the Big West All-Conference team, with junior opposite Katey Thompson receiving honorable […]
UCSB Looks to Snap Two-Game Losing Streak
After losing two straight games, the second a 68-40 blowout to Wyoming, the UCSB men’s basketball team travels to face Santa Clara on Saturday night in search of its first road win of the season. Santa Barbara fell to 2-4 on the season with Wednesday night’s loss to Wyoming, its first home loss of the […]
UCSB to Compete Against Swimming Elite
Seven of the best swimmers on the UCSB swim and dive team will be competing in this weekend’s U.S. Swimming Winter Nationals in Austin, Texas. In the biggest swim meet since the Olympic Trials in summer, the invitational will allow the Gauchos to prepare for the upcoming conference season and possibly qualify for the NCAA […]
Gevirtz Dean Conoley To Temporarily Leave UCSB, Assume Position of Acting Chancellor at UC Riverside
UCSB’s Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Jane Close Conoley, was appointed acting chancellor of UC Riverside by the UC Board of Regents on Tuesday. Conoley will take over the position on Dec. 31 after current chancellor Timothy White steps down to become the chancellor of the entire California State University system. Conoley […]
How Do Evolution and Natural Selection Affect Morality?
To answer the question bluntly, we simply wouldn’t have morality without evolution or natural selection. However, being fair to morality, we probably wouldn’t have survived as a species without it either. If we consider morality to be a defined system of ideas about right and wrong shared by a group of people, then it is […]
Female and Republican? One Lady Elephant Trumpets Her Case
My parents never talked about politics. One night in a bar, this somehow gave me validity as a Republican. The fact that my ideologies were neither a choice to mime my parent’s party politics, nor the cliché rebellion against everything they stand for, seemed to catch the tipsy brunette off guard. Her cheekbones rose as […]
Choosing the Moral High Road When Funny Isn’t So Funny
My story begins at the start of this quarter; one of my classes which I looked forward to taking was titled “Asian Americans in the Media,” a class that I thought would be mostly about watching indie Asian films and critiquing them on plot, casting, film techniques, etc. It just so happens that the class […]