M.Golf: Santa Barbara Golfers Take Strokes in Hawaii
With a barrage of thunderstorms hitting Southern California this week, there is no better time for the UCSB men’s golf team to take a road trip. The Gauchos will head to Hawaii this week to participate in the John Burns Intercollegiate Tournament, which will be held at the Leilehua Golf Course.
Frat To Host Culturally Diverse Show
Organizers of the Sigma Chi Omega Multicultural Fraternity’s Seventh Annual Cultural Showcase said they expect to entertain a full house at their variety show this weekend.
W.Tennis: #73 Gauchos Hit The Road
After losing two matches to the weather, the #73 women’s tennis team goes on the road this weekend, hoping for bluer skies and better fortunes.
Baseball: UCSB Hosts Beavers
After an onslaught of wet weather, a postponed game and one practice session this week, the UCSB baseball team plays host to Oregon this weekend.
Softball: Gauchos Return to Play
After two straight weeks of rainouts invoked by nine inches of rain in Santa Barbara in the past week, the UCSB softball team looks to break out of the .500 mark Saturday with a doubleheader against Saint Mary’s College, if weather permits.
W.Water Polo: SB To Host Nation
Eighteen of the top 20 women’s water polo teams in the nation will join five more teams to participate in the Daktronics Gaucho Invitational to be held at Campus Pool today through Sunday.
Like Vintage Wine
Today I was in a lecture given by some guy, and these 80-year-old ladies next to me thought the guy was named “Richard Hickey.”
Movie Reveiw: Tarnation
Jonathan Caouette’s “Tarnation” is a force to be reckoned with. In a time when documentary film has come to be defined through the highly subjective works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, Caouette’s self-reflexive, mind-altering video collage offers a breath of fresh, albeit unforgiving air, into the art of moviemaking.
#6 Santa Barbara Sweeps USC
The #6 Santa Barbara men’s volleyball team dismantled the Trojan horse last night, constructing brooms out of the remaining rubble in the Gauchos’ uncontested sweep over unranked USC.
Save the Halfway House
There are over 2.1 million people in U.S. prisons today, which is 500,000 more prisoners than are in Chinese jails, even though they have four times our population. Sixty-eight percent of prisoners are people of color, the vast majority of whom are in for nonviolent crimes such as drugs.