Campus Pool Leaves Players Standing
UCSB is in the early planning stages of constructing a new pool facility that better adheres to the water-depth rules mandated for the university’s water polo teams.
W.Water Polo: Gauchos Face #8 San Diego, #1 UCLA
The UCSB women’s water polo team will try to climb the national rankings this weekend when it takes on two of the top teams in the country.
Council Names Student to Bus Board
The Santa Barbara City Council appointed UCSB student Logan Green to the Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) Board yesterday, giving Isla Vista bus riders a voice for the first time in decisions concerning public transportation.
M.Tennis: SB Takes Another Three-Game, Three-Day Road Trip
A six-game losing streak and yet another three-games-in-three-days weekend road trip wouldn’t seem to bode well for the UCSB men’s tennis team, but the Gauchos appear to be on the verge of turning the corner.
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Here at Artsweek, we feel your pain and hereby attempt to bring you the facts as the gloved one and his team of experts move toward what is sure to be one of the most highly publicized court cases in history.
In Bold Fashion
I have the perfect solution for those people who have a problem deciding what to wear: Just don’t do laundry. Like, ever.
#19 UOP Cuts Down Nets on SB
For 28 minutes, it seemed like the Gauchos were poised to do the unthinkable against #19 Pacific, but fruitless shooting over a seven-minute stretch turned the notion into fiction. Down 48-44 with 11:45 remaining in the second half, having faced a double-digit deficit for the majority of the period, UCSB appeared to have all the momentum, and even Head Coach Bob Williams couldn’t help but cheer his underdogs.
A Waste of Sex Education
Most of the time, I can see past President George W. Bush’s incoherent babble and understand his message. Other times, his policies fly in the face of logic and simple-minded, right wing ideology conquers both science and reality. My most recent beef with the President is not the war in Iraq; in fact, I diverge from my ideological counterparts in my support for Bush’s removal of Saddam Hussein from power. This time, it is his militant support for abstinence-only sex “education.”
UCSB Students Call for Fewer Education Cuts
The United States Student Association (USSA) organized a campaign asking people to call congressional representatives who sit on House or Senate budget committees or members from their district to protest various cuts to education loans and programs in President Bush’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
Denial Should Be a River in France
Early Monday morning, the media world converged on the otherwise normal town of Santa Maria for the jury selection for the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. Among the impersonators, fans and sleepy Artsweek correspondents, there were two individuals who seemed to stand out. Only identifying themselves as Rory and Obi-Wan (as in Kenobi, for all you “Star Wars” fans), these students came all the way from France to support MJ.