It was an extraordinary weekend for the UCSB men’s tennis team, as top players senior Mike Placek and junior Alex Anselme represented the Gauchos at the 47th Annual Southern California Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament on Nov. 6-9 at the Los Angeles Tennis Club.
Future job hunters had their prey laid out for them at an event in Storke Plaza Wednesday afternoon. The Business Economics Association and the Latino Business Association presented its eighth annual Career Fair.
I’m a UCSB alumnus and have heard that the UCSB College Republicans have been trying to host a debate between Phyllis Schlafly and a professor of women’s studies, but despite several polite invitations and offers, all the professors in that department have refused their entreaties.
Finally, Plaid has come out with an album that doesn’t sound like an attempt at rehashing Not for Threes. Sure, their past two albums sounded lovely enough, but you couldn’t help but get the feeling that the duo was trying to relive their 1998 success
Citizens for County Organization (CFCO) submitted 30,000 signatures to the county clerk assessor Wednesday. The group has been petitioning for over a year to put a measure on the 2006 ballot that would, if passed, split Santa Barbara County in two.
Regarding Shawn Nielsen and Natalie Spritzer’s column “Carl’s Jr. TV Ads Put Sleaze Into the Special Sauce” (Daily Nexus, Nov 12), I appreciate the fact that a couple of lousy punk teenagers think they need to warn me about this brand new monster called sexist advertising.
Emerging from the underground with their second full-length album, anarcho-punks Against Me! are back and rocking as hard as ever. Their newest release, The Eternal Cowboy, resonates with the infectious hand-clapping, foot-stomping energy of their live shows.
Getting paid to travel around the country, get drunk and mingle with the people was once only a dream job until Comedy Central’s late-night show “Insomniac” came around and turned fantasy into reality.
1) The Rapture | Echoes | Strummer/Universal
2) Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | Barsuk
3) Hieroglyphics | Full Circle | Hiero Imperium