Campaigns Deplete Funds
With time for campaigning rapidly dwindling, parties on both sides of the recall campaign are spending money faster than they are taking it in.
UCSB Shellacks The Beach
The players on the #5 UCSB women’s volleyball team proved that they belong among the elite programs in the country after downing #7 Long Beach State in four games in front of a record crowd of 4,258 fans.
McWorld Series
I was an Angels fan as a kid. If you like rooting for the underdog, there’s nothing like a baseball franchise that hasn’t won a series since 1961.
A Ghost of Halloween Past
Take a typical weekend in Isla Vista, pack the streets to a standing room capacity of 15,000 18- to 22-year-old residents and visitors, add costumes and a cultural excuse to deny inhibitions; what do you expect?
Model May Conserve Groundwater Supply
UCSB Professor of Geographical Sciences Hugo Loaiciga has invented a groundwater-pumping model that will help determine how much water landowners can pump without depleting shared aquifers.
Weekly Column Helps Me Get Over the Wednesday Hump
Every Wednesday morning, the students at UCSB wake up, get dressed and grab themselves one of the greatest newspapers in the world: the Daily Nexus.
California Democrats Mourn Dead Senator
Only days before the Nov. 5 election, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, along with his wife, daughter, three campaign members and two pilots, died Friday morning when his airplane crashed in northeastern Minnesota.
Vigils Help Us Remember the Destructive Power of Hate
Women, queer and trans-identified individuals face violence and palpable hostility everyday. If you doubt it, think about the last time that you heard someone say fag, dyke, bitch or queer.
#1 Hoosiers Overcome Feisty Santa Barbara
#1 Indiana lived up to its reputation as a national power and showed the #17 UCSB men’s soccer team the full meaning of tradition. The Gauchos lost 3-1 to the Hoosiers (13-2-2) on Sunday night in Fullerton in a nonconference game for both squads.