Sac Town Soloquist: Hidden Gems
Contrary to popular belief, a UCSB men’s soccer team did, in fact, win a national championship last winter. Before accusing me of hitting ye old crack pipe one too many times, hear me out on this one. No, this isn’t the penalty kick debate. As absurd as it is to decide a national championship on penalty kicks, the point is moot, Indiana won fair and square. They can take their sorry Hoosier asses back to the Midwest and let us have our goal post thieving memories.
Confronting the Real World
Graduating this spring has its perks: I didn’t have to scrounge for another overpriced apartment in I.V., the enemy known as general education requirements will be forever wiped out and distant family members who squeezed my cheeks when I was eight will show up to take embarrassing pictures of me in a cap and gown.
UC Employees To Strike for Better Wages
As the University of California settles contract negotiations with a service workers’ union, another union voted Monday to strike. After spending 11 months bargaining with the UC for wage increases, 85 percent of the 17,000-person University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) membership voted in favor of striking against the UC, said Bob Stevenson, president of the UPTE Santa Barbara chapter.
Men’s Lacrosse: SB Attempts To Defend National Title
It happens every spring here at UCSB. The sun comes out, the weather becomes perfect and the UCSB men’s lacrosse team takes a trip to the national championships.
It Requires Guts to Challenge Feminism
Alec Mouhibian’s column (“Private Dancer: Clearing the Angry Air,” Daily Nexus, May 5) brought up a key problem in the college community: our inability to tolerate ideas and conclusions that don’t fit into the politically correct version of reality. I expected Mouhibian’s earlier column to be met with strong opposition.
Pole Collisions Cause Deaths of Migrating Birds
Up to 30 birds flew toward the light last week, crashing into the new light poles illuminating the recently installed artificial field next to the Rec Cen.
Women’s Lacrosse: UCSB Vies for First-Ever National Championship
Winning the Western Women’s Lacrosse League (WWLL) Championship was a warm-up; now the UCSB women’s lacrosse team wants a national championship. Santa Barbara (16-1) enters this weekend’s U.S. Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates National Championship Tournament as the #1 seed, determined to complete its best season in school history as the top team in the country.
Los Padres Grant Looks to Save Vehicle Trails
Los Padres National Forest officials are pining for public comment on a grant application to the State of California, which could help maintain and protect the forest’s off-highway vehicle (OHV) system.
Grant Funds Grad Global Studies Program
Graduates with globalization on the brain will soon have the opportunity to earn their master’s degree in Global and International Studies, thanks to a new $500,000 per-year grant from the Orfalea Family Foundation of Santa Barbara.
Big Anniversary, Small World
Disneyland is celebrating its 50th anniversary. How, I wonder? Parades? Fireworks? Costumed
characters? Launching missiles at those commie Knott