An X-Game by Any Other Name Still Isn’t All That Extreme
It is that time once again, and I’m seriously not looking forward to it. The X Games are coming to fascinate the minds of so-called extreme viewers and spectators of the sport spectacle of the century. I won’t be one of them though.
NSF Awards Funding for Grad Studies
Two UC Santa Barbara graduate programs received multimillion dollar grants to fund research last week, a third was to made available to graduate students at all UCs.
Men’s basketball: Gauchos Find Anteater Dish Best Served Cold
Anteater stew was served at the Bren Center Thursday night, and the Gauchos cooked the large-snouted mammals to a roaring boil.The UCSB men’s basketball team sautŽed, stuffed and nuclearized Irvine 70-54 in a Big West clash for second place in the conference on Thursday.
Don’t Be Quick to Assume the Residency of UCSB Students
I imagine that I am not alone in being a little disturbed by Justin Ruhge’s column (Daily Nexus, “Temporary Student Residents Shouldn’t Play with Voting Blocks,” Jan. 28, 2003).
IVRPD Upgrades Sue–o Park
Thanks to some elbow grease from the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD), Sueno Park has gotten a major facelift.
Men’s volleyball: UCSB Loves Taste of Home Cookin’
The UCSB men’s volleyball team will finally get a chance to come home this weekend, hosting Pacific tonight and Stanford on Saturday at Rob Gym.
The Wednesday Hump Bumps, Grinds and Misses the Point
I guess it takes a woman writing about women to create even more contradictions and problems. I applaud Beth Van Dyke’s attempt to take a crack at the battle of the sexes.
If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get out of Canada!
Besides being at the forefront of yet another recent musical movement, the Canadian quartet Hot Hot Heat just might be able to break Artsweek’s habit of cracking totally unfounded Canadian jokes on the basis of them being, well, purely Canadian.
They’re Out for Blood
It’s the prickly presence of a nuclear mosquito, a member of the oversized, bloodthirsty, buzzing, scummy lagoon-spawning, itch-inducing tribe of bugs that that now apparently calls UCSB home.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Unless the concept of “more bang for your buck” directly relates to a massive spontaneous failure of the kidneys, two and a half hours is just too long.