On Saturday, the #11 UCSB women’s water polo team will play #20 Cal Baptist University at Campus Pool at noon. Last week, the Gaucho women watched the Cal Baptist Lancers play during the UC San Diego Tournament and realized this will be a tough game.
The #64-ranked men’s tennis team is traveling to Seattle for matches against Washington and Portland this week. The Gauchos moved down one notch in this week’s rankings after falling to #45 Arizona State and #38 Arizona last weekend.
After two and a half years and nearly $40,000 spent on an “education” for our 20-year-old daughter at UCSB, I had enough of the negative influence of UCSB on her.
Valentine’s Day may just be the most bogus of all holidays, according to Artsweek, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how to celebrate in style. Now, there are those among us with a less than critical eye when it comes to picking the proper smooch-worthy V-Day gift.
California Proposition 55, officially titled the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004, would allow the state to sell $12.3 billion in bonds that would then be distributed to public schools at K-12 and college levels.
I received a letter from a reader upset about my recent Bush bashing. He called this box BS and said it is “about nothing at all.” He didn’t say how he read and got so worked up about nothing at all.
With dazzling passes and remarkable accuracy from three-point range, senior guard April McDivitt makes her presence felt every time she steps onto the court. Midway through her first season as a starting guard at Santa Barbara, McDivitt has been everything the Gauchos hoped she would be.
Whenever people consider the victims of Valentine’s Day, they either think of the boneheaded – those who blow their paychecks on pink and red foolery like those chalky conversation hearts – or the socially untouchable – those whose appearance, hygiene, mental stability, speech impediment or need to wear orthopedic shoes have rendered them dateless.
If you’ve seen the sign, you know… the vaginas are coming. It sounds a bit like some quasi-pornographic gross-out horror flick playing to an audience bespectacled in 3-D glasses. One imagines giant flaming letters would come tumbling out from the screen, toward beehived and crew-cut teenagers, saying “When Vaginas Attack!”