Dish Failure Hurts KCSB Pledge Drive
In the middle of its week and a half-long annual pledge drive, the transmission of on-campus radio station KCSB was suddenly cut, requiring station members to lift a replacement radio dish up the side of Storke Tower.
Vote YES YES YES!
A.S. wants to (not) have your babies. They’ve been distributing A.S. Initiative propaganda fliers with condoms attached. The connection between giving A.S. more money and having sex is not immediately clear to me.
Don’t Grab That Ass!
For those of you who had the pleasure of hanging out in I.V. over the Halloween weekend, I hope you all had a good time. It got a little crowded, but, overall, things really seemed to go well.
Injury List Lengthens for UCSB
When UCSB men’s basketball coach Bob Williams looks down his bench for a sub in the game against Westmont College tonight, there will be more players clad in long-sleeved shirts and ties than in their sleek new white jerseys.
Physics World Praises Work of UCSB Professor
Spintronics sounds like a Harlem Globetrotter trick, but it is actually a branch of physics in which a UCSB professor has received a nationally recognized prize and published a landmark paper.
I.V.’s Cesspool Needs Regulation
Recently, the Daily Nexus ran two articles that were intended to highlight police abuses in I.V. Both articles were long on conclusions and apocryphal stories but short on facts – actually, they were devoid of any facts.
Anteaters Host Santa Barbara
Revenge is oh so sweet. The first-ranked men’s soccer team has only lost two times all year, once to Northridge and once to Irvine. It already erased the loss to the Matadors on Tuesday night with a 2-1 victory and clinched the Big West title.
Wells Fargo Deposits New Branch in Isla Vista
A Wells Fargo branch recently opened in Isla Vista, becoming the first bank office to enter the area since rioting protestors burned the I.V. Bank of America branch to the ground in 1970.
A.S. Should Stop Scamming Students for Major Bucks
I suppose there are enough undergraduates that directly benefit from Associated Students and its spending, but that is not the case for me. I do not belong to a campus organization that spends my quarterly $9.10; I’ve bought only one required $8 reader from the bookstore.
Gauchos Look to Clinch Big West Title
Heading into this weekend’s showdowns in the Southland, the #19 UCSB women’s volleyball team (19-3 overal1, 3-2 Big West Conference) is in control of its own playoff destiny, as a win in any of its final three league matches will assure it a third-straight Big West title as well as an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament.