The Lincoln Bedroom
I hope everyone had a happy Presidents’ Day. I celebrated my day off in honor of Calvin Coolidge, who slept a mandatory 11 hours per day.
Gauchos Nip Northridge
Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race. With their fast-paced approach to basketball, the UCSB women (15-8 overall, 12-2 in the Big West) dashed their way to a 74-46 victory and put an end to Northridge’s (15-8 overall, 10-5 Big West) eight-game winning streak.
Private Dancer: Practice Your Preaching
Last week we learned that some members of the Academic Senate have launched a crusade to ban the ROTC from campus. The crusade is being led by Charles Bazerman, chair of the Dept. of Education, and Thomas Scheff, a retired sociology professor who has written a book entitled Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory. The effort is not only wrong, but sickly hypocritical.
An Oceanside Revolution
With 1,000 angry students surrounding the administration building, their bodies packing the concrete plaza in front of Campbell Hall, university officials moved to resolve the situation peacefully.
UCSB Upsets Long Beach
Paralleled with Santa Barbara’s recent torrential rainstorm, the #7 Gaucho men’s volleyball team thundered through Southern California like a tropical hurricane this weekend, upsetting #4 Long Beach and hammering unranked San Diego.
Late Gonzo Journalist Leaves Legacy
Over the weekend, the world lost one of its truly unique figures in journalism, Dr. – as he was dubbed by a 1960s mail-order church – Hunter S. Thompson. The man who, fueled by a heroic intake of substances and a manic passion for action verbs, opened the floodgates for “gonzo journalism” – the art and science of hybridizing both epic fact and epic fiction into one’s reporting – is gone.
Talk Considers Global Impact of Big Business
Two UCSB professors spoke about the role of corporate powers in global economics and politics during a lecture titled “Do Corporations Rule the World?” presented Saturday by the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara.
SB Wrangles Mustangs
With UCSB’s 78-66 drubbing of Cal Poly on Saturday night, Gaucho fans were treated to a glimpse of the past and visions of the future. Freshman guard Alex Harris tied for a team-high 16 points to help halt Santa Barbara’s 11-game road losing skid.
ROTC To Go on Active Duty for Bidders
Buyers at tonight’s second annual ROTC fundraising auction can order cadets to wash cars, dishes, do laundry and an array of other service tasks. The ROTC will auction off 10 of its cadets from 8 to 10 p.m. at Giovanni’s in Isla Vista.