Track and Field: Santa Barbara To Run Double Duty Again
The UCSB track and field team has split its roster three times this season to send competitors to separate meets in separate cities. This Saturday it will do it for the second weekend in a row while it competes in the final two meets of the year before the Big West Conference Championships. Eagle Rock, […]
IVRPD Springs for Skate Park, Vernal Pool
The Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD) voted to fund two major projects at its Thursday meeting, giving the green light to an $800,000 skate park and the $28,000 restoration of a vernal pool on Del Playa Drive.
Ring Girls of 2005 Told Not to Skimp on Their Costumes
Spectators attending the 14th annual Fight Night this Friday will be met by a slightly more dressed-up event this year as new restrictions have been placed on the event’s ring girls and their outfits.
The Mighty Monolith of the Desert
When approaching a sprawling venue and 90-band lineup such as Coachella perhaps my most naive plan of action was to have a plan of action. Boasting acts from the comeback kids of Nine Inch Nails and New Order, the dance feigns of Bloc Party and Kasabian, and the newly crowned kings of theatricality Bright Eyes and the Arcade Fire, 2005’s party in the desert was bigger, better and a hell of a lot cooler than years past, leaving this lowly fan-come-reporter to spend the majority of her weekend tent hopping and physically struggling to see as much as humanly possible.
Look Out Behind You
I was stuck in traffic today because someone drove the wrong way on the 101, and it reminded me of another dumbass from my high school.
Gauchos Rope in Eight New Recruits for 2005
If the New York Yankees of men’s college soccer thought that UCSB was going to pull a Florida Marlins and let its 2004 national finalist team fall by the wayside, then the Hoosiers, Terrapins and Blue Devils all have a nasty surprise waiting for them in 2005.
Private Dancer: Clearing the Angry Air
Given the large number of misinterpretations of my last column (“Private Dancer: The Deception Behind Gender Studies,” Daily Nexus, April 19), a few things need to be cleared up. First off, there is a reason I referred to gender feminism, rather than its other forms. Gender feminism is the stark opposite of the authentic feminism that led to equality and suffrage movements in early America.
Graduating Into War
With their backs to a skyline of research buildings and residence halls, a squad of camouflage-clad cadets charges up the side of a blufftop ridge between the UCSB Lagoon and Campus Point. On this sunny, breezy Wednesday afternoon last month, several dozen students from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, toting mock M-16 rifles made of rubber, understand they are training for the real thing.
Better Than Casual Sex
I kicked gratuitous amounts of ass this weekend at the Coachella Valley Music Festival. For the unenlightened, Coachella is a steamingly hot music festival in the middle of the desert. You spend two days engulfed in music, overpriced chicken sandwiches and snobbishly beautiful indie girls, and all you can think about is how anyone finds time to shower.
Club Sports Thrive Despite Small Budget
There’s always a price to play, but sometimes that’s not always so bad. Despite limited financial assistance from the university, the UCSB Sports Club Program, a division of UCSB Recreational Sports, has excelled.