Student Notes Loss of Landmark Ashtray, Approves of Foliage
Rushing through the crowds of students making their way to and from the UCen on my first day back to campus, something caught my eye.
Birthday Beatdown
Funny how people feel the need to get you ridiculously shitfaced on your birthday. Each year we embark on a new journey, and the first steps taken are wobbly ones.
The Artful Dodger: A GOLDen Shower for All
Normally, if I said so-and-so went down on me and didn’t come up all night, I’d get a high five. But when the so-and-so that started to blow has the initials G-O-L-D, the result complicates my life considerably.
Men’s Water Polo: UCSB Falls Against Top Tier
This weekend’s Southern California Water Polo Tournament was supposed to be an opportunity for competing teams to size up one another. There was just one problem, nearly all the teams that showed up were already familiar with each other.
Professor, Former Provost Dies
The university lost a passionate teacher and valued administrator with the passing of professor Everett Zimmerman on Monday. Zimmerman died at his home in Santa Barbara, four months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. He was 66.
County Aims to Reduce Trash With Mandate
Over the summer, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously decided to implement mandatory recycling programs in all unincorporated areas of the county, including I.V. The decision is an effort to divert solid waste from Tajiguas.
Knight Jousts with Queers on Prop. 22
Republican State Senator Pete Knight issued a challenge Monday to the Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003, previously AB 205, signed into law by our very own Gray Davis on Sept. 19.
Idiots Don’t Represent
I’m about as loyal a Dodger fan as you can get. I loath the San Francisco Giants, especially Barry Bonds, like any bitter rival would. I swear to “Bleed Dodger Blue” as they like to say.
Local Volunteers Clean Trashy Shorelines
While it may be common in Santa Barbara County to find bottles, cans and the occasional lost partygoer washed up on the beach, a crack pipe is not your typical beach debris.
Cops Suspect Suicide With Train Victim
A man seen standing on the train tracks near the Santa Barbara Zoo was struck by a train and killed Sunday night. Police identified the victim as Jess Scaggs, a 21-year-old transient.