Beach Crosses Stand in Honor of Dead Troops

The Santa Barbara chapter of Veterans for Peace (VFP) continued its weekly anti-war protest near Stearns Wharf this Sunday with some special guests.

Alumni Party at Caeser Uyeseka

With cheers of “back to back” ringing in their ears, the 2004 Gauchos fell to a rowdy squad of UCSB baseball graduates for the second time in a row in this year’s annual Alumni Game on Saturday.

Hip Hop Battle Winner Takes Home $1000

MCs from all over the West Coast came to the UCen Saturday night to battle each other for a $1000 prize in front of an audience of 800 people.

Dry Rocks

Musicians from JAM43, a local band, serve up an alternative to alcohol at I.V. Live Friday.

Full Moon Fleecing

I ran into the Wolf at the store yesterday. I was on my guard, as I always am when around him.

UCSA Battles The Governator

University of California students and civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday with the State Supreme Court against Gov. Schwarzenegger asking the court to overturn the recent reduction of vehicle license fees and block budget cuts – particularly to University of California – in the governor’s 2004-05 budget proposal.

A Tale of Two Halves

If you missed the second half of the UCSB men’s basketball game on Thursday night, you missed the CSUN team play. The Santa Barbara Gauchos (10-5, 4-2) took on the Cal State Northridge Matadors (6-9, 2-5), in a game in which each team dominated one half.

Cleaning Up CalPIRG’s Name Mouhibian’s Column Soils the Reputation of Student Group

In the Jan. 15 issue of the Daily Nexus, Alec Mouhibian expressed a rather ignorant and distorted view of the Public Interest Research Groups (the PIRGs) as “totalitarian and anti-human rights” (“Campus Littered With CalPIRG Representatives,” Daily Nexus, Jan. 15).

Booze Czar to Check Out How I.V. Gets Down

In pursuit of a $100,000 grant to help crack down on the provision of alcohol to minors by local businesses, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol is taking state authorities out for a night on the town.

Santa Barbara Edges Matadors

With conference-leading Pacific coming to town on Saturday, the UCSB women’s basketball team needed to make a statement to the rest of the Big West Conference that they were ready for the stretch run.