Truck Accidents Slow 101 Traffic
Local emergency crews responded to two separate incidents involving truck accidents Monday, both of which involved diesel spills and hazardous materials cleanup.
Cal Poly Ends Women’s Lacrosse Team’s Streak
The UCSB women’s lacrosse team’s hopes for an undefeated season were crushed Friday after a 9-5 loss to rival Cal Poly at Rec Cen field. “I think [the loss] will help us in the long run,” junior Katie Wolsson said. “I think we’ll go into games with a better mentality, expecting it to be our hardest competition.”
Lit Professor Acquires Laureate Appointment
Visiting literature professor Barry Spacks was recently appointed Santa Barbara’s first poet laureate, giving him the opportunity to spend the next stanza of his life elevating the role of the arts in the community.
Tide Takes Tourney
It is Nationals or bust for the UCSB men’s ultimate Frisbee team, who qualified for Regionals after defeating UC San Diego in Sunday’s sectional final 15-8.
Rocks Draw Attention to Exhibit
Call it an avalanche of artistic design – four boulders, installed last May by landscape designer Isabelle Greene, mark the entrance to the University Art Museum as a gateway to a new landscape exhibit.
Ooooh… Student Government…
Quick! Drop whatever you’re doing now (sitting in lecture, breast-feeding, both, etc.), run to a computer, log on to GOLD and vote for the Weatherhuman for A.S. president.
It’s ok, It Can Fix Itself
I spent most of Earth Day trashed out of my mind. The festivities at Anisq’ Oyo’ Park pushed the holiday to an alcoholic extreme, making even the most prudish of students into slothful sex machines. While I enjoy exploiting social awareness holidays as much as the next man, I do care about the environment.
Gaucho Star Nets WNBA Draft Pick in 1st Round
Most children entertain fantasies of playing professional sports when they grow up – senior Kristen Mann will get to live out that dream. Mann became the highest Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft pick in UCSB history Saturday when the Minnesota Lynx selected the swingman with the 11th overall pick in the first round of the 2005 WNBA draft.
Sheriff’s Dept. Arrests Ex-Wife of Slain Student
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested another suspect in the ongoing investigation into the death of Jarrod Blake Davidson, the UCSB graduate student who was murdered in front of his Goleta apartment in July 2004.
He Said: Do More Than Just Cruise While Rolling on Your Cruiser
Before you go about giving that biker on a cell phone the dirtiest look you can muster, perhaps you should commend them for killing two birds with one cell phone-shaped stone.