Baseball: Anteaters Sniff Out Wins in SB
Fortunately for the seven seniors from the UCSB baseball team, there is still one more series remaining in their college careers. After dropping two out of three to Irvine this weekend, the Gauchos (23-30 overall, 5-13 in the Big West) will have a chance to finish the season on a positive note next weekend at Northridge.
Left Lane Driver: Twirling Toward Freedom
At long last, my California adventure is over, and I didn’t even get to go to the shitty theme park. I remember the day I arrived here like it was yesterday. I was a tall, lanky Asian kid from the Midwest standing on the street corner outside of Santa Cruz Hall, amazed at the plethora of SUVs zipping by me as I prepared to meet my new roommates – a skinny white dude from the Bay area and a big Mexican guy from L.A. The words “hella,” “sick,” “home boy” and “tight” had not yet been added to my vocabulary, but that would soon change.
Experts Expect Future Increases in Cliff Erosion
While walking on the campus beach down from Lagoon Road, Martie Levy said she heard a rumbling noise originating 25 feet behind her and her daughter – just before a four-foot-wide boulder rolled down from the cliff.
Sactown Soloquist: The Injury Riddle
Baseball typically ages like fine wine. There are career minor leaguers, 26-year-old rookies and younger players who are in an everlasting stage of development. Coaches drool over young talent that is refined, disciplined and play with the poise of a savvy vet.
UC Researchers To Strike To Protect Quality
This Thursday, May 26, thousands of research and technical staff at the University of California will go on strike. We do this with great regret, but we feel we must strike in order to protect the research, teaching and public service we care so much about. After more than one year of negotiations, the University has repeatedly failed to meet its legal obligations to negotiate in good faith in many ways, including failing to provide information about how much money they receive.
Three Survive Plane’s Crash Landing
The pilot and passengers of a small sightseeing plane escaped serious injury Sunday afternoon after their aircraft crashed in the slough beyond the runways of Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.
To Bike or Not To Bike Should Not Be the Question
On Bike to Work Day, CSOs were impounding bicycles at 9:30 a.m. in front of the Biology II Building. Students felt that their bicycles were unfairly impounded and complained. Based on the accounts and examination of bike impound rules, it seems that the CSOs overstepped their authority by impounding bicycles that were clearly more than six feet away from the nearest door and did not block pedestrian traffic.
UCSB Senior Breaks World Record With 909-Pound Lift
After placing a great deal of weight on his goal, a UCSB student literally lifted his burden by shattering the world record in a national powerlifting competition.
UC Sets Bad Example In Deal With Los Alamos National Laboratory
This summer, the University of California will team up with Bechtel Corporation, a controversial global engineering and construction firm, in a bid to renew its 62-year-old managerial contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the nation’s leading nuclear weapons complex.
Press Council, Staff Select New EIC
With a fiery-red passion for journalism matched only by his orange hair, third-year biological sciences major Matt Dozier will become next year’s editor in chief of the Daily Nexus. The UCSB Press Council named Dozier, who served as the paper’s county editor this year, to the position after interviewing him Thursday afternoon.