Dining Commons Blatantly Maximizes Its Bland Utilities
As you may have noticed during Parents’ Weekend, the folks tend to be impressed with odd aspects of our school. Particularly noticeable are their expressions upon entering one of UC Santa Barbara’s finer dining halls; it’s as if the huddled masses had just reached Ellis Island. After the initial shock wears off, they proceed to give a grim verbal picture of the eating conditions in their day.
Student Health Runs Low on Shot Stock
While other local facilities have an ample supply, UCSB Student Health has nearly exhausted its stock of the influenza vaccine due to a high volume of students, faculty and staff seeking inoculation against illness.
New Budget Reform Cuts Federal Aid, Heightens Student Fees
Congress is poised to consider a budget bill that will brutally cut federal safety-net programs for people who need and deserve assistance. The bill would cut food stamps, child support, foster care and health care for the poor, such as the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
CHP To Give Thanks by Donating Turkeys for Underprivileged
Officers from the Santa Barbara chapter of the California Highway Patrol will hand out turkeys as well as tickets this Thanksgiving season for locals who cannot afford to finance their own feasts.
SB County Tests for Infected Mosquitoes in Various Locations
Several mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been found inhabiting pools of standing water countywide since the disease’s first discovery in Santa Barbara in 2004.
Ex-Professor To Serve 2 Years
Former UCSB professor and Nobel Prize winner John Robert Schrieffer was sentenced to two years in state prison Monday for gross negligence vehicular manslaughter.
New Campus Center To Examine the Mind
UCSB will soon evolve from a place where minds can study to a place where researchers can also study the mind. The recently founded SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind will offer faculty and students the chance to focus on and research the human mind from every discipline, said Michael Gazzaniga, future director of the center.
And it Rocked Me
Who was the first person to say “rock the vote”? I think it was Clinton. I think the pilgrims had it better with “stone the vote” though.