Blackshire Finishes UCSB Home Career
The UCSB women’s volleyball team (18-8 overall, 12-2 in the Big West) swept Davis to win its final home match of the season, and notch its 15th consecutive victory in Santa Barbara.
Isla Vista Post-Halloween Cleanup Accomplishes Goal
The Adopt-A-Block program hosted its annual Halloween cleanup after the busy weekend. Adopt-A-Block is a community cleanup program administered by the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District and sponsored by the County of Santa Barbara, UCSB, and the Goleta West Sanitary District. This year, over 200 volunteers participated in the cleanup, removing 7,000 pounds of garbage from the streets of Isla Vista!
Event To Protest UC-Lab Alliance
While the fate of the University of California’s contract with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) remains undecided, students opposing the UC’s role in the lab will host “The University’s Role In War and Peace” presentation tonight in the MultiCultural Center Theater at 7.
Top Teams Trample Gauchos in Season Opening Road Trip
For the first time since 1993, the UCSB women’s basketball team lost its first two games of the year. Santa Barbara (0-2 overall) fell behind two tough opponents in #10 Michigan State and Louisville and could not play catch up, losing 86-55 to Michigan (2-0 overall) and 76-56 to Louisville (1-0 overall).
Meeting Presents Fossil-Fuel Alternatives
Electric buses and car-share programs were only two of the many topics fueling discussion Saturday afternoon, as local environmental activists and county planners talked about ways to make Santa Barbara less reliant on nonrenewable resources.
Men’s Water Polo: 49ers Earn Final MPSF Tourney Spot
The #14 UCSB men’s water polo team will have to wait until next year to quench its playoff dreams, dropping its finals matches Saturday 10-7 at #8 Long Beach State and Sunday 9-7 at home against #4 Irvine.
Author Discusses a New History of Human Creation
Visitors to the Karpeles Manuscript Library last Saturday had a close encounter with an author who presented his theory that aliens are responsible for creating humans. Marshall Klarfeld, independent researcher and author of Adam: The Missing Link, spoke in downtown Santa Barbara at the Karpeles Manuscript Library at 1:30 p.m.
Artist in Profile: Allison Anders
We here at UCSB are extremely lucky. No not for our unnaturally close proximity to the great pacific Pacific or our numerous Nobel laureates but for something else. We have at our school a filmmaker who offers her unconventional brand of education to us once per quarter. Professor Allison Anders is the director of such films as “Mi vida loca” and “Four Rooms” and is recognized as one of the premiere female directors in the United States.
Finally
Finally, it has happened. The Nexus has officially turned into a smut tabloid. You’ll notice that the Opinion page is filled with it today, so get out your tube socks.