UCSB Grabs Sixth at Home Tourney
The defending national runner-up UCSB men’s volleyball team opened their 2012 season with a sixth-place finish at the UCSB/asics Invitational Tournament on Saturday. The No. 14 Gauchos fell to No. 1 BYU in the sixth-place game on Saturday in three sets. Junior middle blocker Dylan Davis, the only returning starter from last year’s team, paced […]
Gauchos Top CSF 77-64, Improve to 2-0 Big West
The UCSB men’s basketball team captured its second straight Big West win in the Thunderdome last Thursday night, beating visiting Cal State Fullerton 77-64 in the team’s conference home opener. With the win, the Gauchos improve to 7-5 overall (2-0 Big West) and end Fullerton’s (10-4 overall, 2-1 Big West) seven game win streak. “It […]
The Reality of Mental Illness: University Edition
I’m diagnosed with a variety of psychiatric conditions: bipolar I disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, ADHD and a learning disability called dyscalculia. As a teenager I battled anorexia nervosa. I’ve been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward three times since the age of 14, tried over 30 different kinds of psychotropic medication (most of which didn’t work) […]
Police Find Smuggling Boat
Off-duty Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department deputies found a boat likely used for illegal drug smuggling abandoned at sea north of Refugio Beach last Monday and are on the lookout for more. According to a SBCS Office press release, the craft — a 30-foot, open “panga” boat — was empty, but contained significant evidence that […]
Closure of Coal Oil Point Reserve Trails Unimaginative, Unfair
I’ve got bad news for those of you who like to jog or hike around the Coal Oil Point Reserve. You will discover that while you were all away for Christmas break, the university has blocked off, and is in the process of obliterating, all the reserve’s internal trails. The only trail which remains is […]
How I Know Who You’ll Vote for in 2012
Welcome back Gauchoans, and Happy New Year! 2012 is destined to be a doozy. Not only will it be the final year of our lives, but in November we will decide who the final president of the United States will be, to bravely lead us into the Armageddon and our impending doom. Ah yes, election […]
UCSB Ranked in Top 10 Universities Worldwide
The Center for Science and Technologies Studies at the Netherlands’ Leiden University ranked UC Santa Barbara 7th of 500 major universities worldwide last month, using a scale centered on global scientific impact and collaboration. UCSB was ranked as the top campus in the UC system, preceded only by M.I.T, Princeton, Harvard, Rice, Stanford and the […]
Gaucho, Nonprofit Honored by White House
Fourth-year ecology major Anai Novoa received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring earlier this month in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the San Diego-based nonprofit Ocean Discovery Institute. Novoa accepted the government’s top honor for math and science educators on Dec. 12 after working with the ODI to mentor young […]