Puff the Magic Hookah

UCSB students Amy Sanchez, Ashley Ebert, Colin Coggins and Matt Lehrmam celebrate the opening of their “Blaze Hookah” club. Meetings will be held Sunday through Thursday from 7:30 to midnight at Sam’s To Go in Isla Vista. Hookahs originated in Turkey and can be seen in the movie “Alice In Wonderland.”

Keep Moving and You Won’t Get Hit

It’s about this time of the year that everyone looks forward to moving. You’ve discovered all of the leaks, splinters and hanging live wires that your apartment has to offer and you can still fantasize that the next place will be different somehow.

Baseball: CSUN Slips in Rain Against Visiting SB

The Gauchos may have just found the secret to success. Now they just have to convince the Big West schedule makers to let them play Cal State Northridge every weekend.

The Daves-Rougeaux Show

Since taking over this year as executive director, Don Daves-Rougeaux has brought stability to an organization that desperately needed it. However, with that stability has come a perceived control over the organization.

Locals Put Their Dukes Up

The 12th annual Pi Kappa Alpha Fight Night, held Friday at the Events Center, raised about $6,000 for the Say Yes to Kids program, a Santa Barbara-based youth boxing program.

Softball: 49ers Hand Gauchos Bittersweep Series

The 2003 season has been memorable for the UCSB softball team. Tying a school record with 34 wins, they needed just one more to etch their place in history on Sunday.

Isla Vista Foot Patrol Deserves Residents’ Praise, Not Derision

I would like to strongly echo Henry Sarria’s article (Daily Nexus, “Defending the Foot Patrol,” April 30). We are very lucky to have this excellent style of community policing in our small, dense, student-based town.

UCSB Hosts Feminist Playwright

Eve Ensler, the writer and producer of “The Vagina Monologues,” visited UCSB on Friday to deliver two speeches that were five years in the making.

Community Forums To Focus on Suicide

Suicide can be a difficult topic to discuss, but one local group is trying to give the subject a public voice. Two community forums will be held this week to address the effects of suicide and explore possible means of prevention.

SB Group Plans Water Sample Day

People wondering what is in their water will soon get some answers as communities from across California volunteer to take water samples of coastal creeks, streams and rivers feeding into the ocean.