2005 Women’s Basketball Season Preview
It’s a new season and along with it come new goals and expectations for the UCSB women’s basketball team. Last year’s Big West conference champions tip their season off Friday, Nov. 18, in Michigan against last year’s national runner-up, #10 Michigan State. The matchup against the Spartans will test one of Santa Barbara’s weaknesses that has already been exposed in a 74-72 edging against Bakersfield: the zone defense. Bakersfield forced the Gauchos to turn the ball over 34 times, and Michigan boasts a much more athletic team than Bakersfield.
A Disparity of Dialect
I didn’t believe in the language barrier until I took an introductory Spanish class in high school. I had hoped to learn about Spanish culture and its rich history, but I could never actually learn anything because my teacher refused to speak English. Sure, she’d throw out the occasional “yo” or “los blue jeans,” but that was just to tease me.
UC Reacts to ‘Education Crisis’ by Inflating Costs
For the fifth year in a row, the University of California Board of Regents voted to increase undergraduate, graduate and professional student fees in its annual UC budget approval process. The Regents, in a 17-2 vote yesterday, approved an eight percent – $492 for California residents – increase for UC undergraduate student fees, despite the protests of members of the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) and the University of California Students Association (UCSA).
Live: Death Cab for Cutie @ The Wiltern
Sure, Ben Gibbard may appear the atypical tough guy, but after Saturday night, one cannot dispute the fact that the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie had his game face on. Prone to wearing his heart on his sleeve, Death Cab’s frontman seems the grown personification of that middle school dweeb.
Sac Town Soliloquist: In French I Trust
It would be rather peculiar to say that a man that stands roughly a towering 6’8 goes largely unnoticed on campus. However, quietly, calmly and bloody efficiently, UCSB women’s Basketball Head Coach Mark French has constructed a juggernaut, and largely under the radar.
Teachers
We’d all go to our graves happier if we never had to argue about teachers’ salaries again. Nowhere else are fallacious appeals to emotion and images of impoverished idealists who just want to help the kids thrown about so recklessly. When it comes time to ask whether educators are justly compensated for their pains, all elements of fiscal and logical sense are abandoned.
Dissidents Rally Against SOA
Local reggae band Rebelution and about 100 students and converged on Storke Plaza yesterday to protest what they call the U.S.’s “School of Assassins.” While Rebelution intermittently played to attract more people to the event, which began at noon, Chicano Studies 177 students demanded the U.S. close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).
Moview Reveiw: The Ice Harvest | Lloyd Dobler Takes on the Mob
Coming from someone who would like to think that John Cusack can do no wrong, it means a lot to say that the plot description for his latest venture, “The Ice Harvest,” found me hesitant to see it at best. Presented with the idea of a disturbingly removed film noir set on Christmas Eve and directed by the man who brought us “Animal House” and “Caddyshack,” one cannot help but empathize with my diffidence.
Swimming: Santa Barbara Takes on Top Five Opponent
Traveling by bus and plane, the Gaucho swim teams will attempt to keep their hot streak on the move this weekend. In the upcoming meets, the men’s and women’s teams will try to expand on an already impressive season.
Military Recruiter Opponents Don
So let me see if I get this straight: Chris Trenchard’s piece “Rogue Inquiry Evades Prod” (Daily Nexus, Nov. 15), the one where he shadow boxes a fictitious caricature of a U.S. Army recruiter (and unsurprisingly wins), this is supposed to be a wry and clever condemnation of … recruitment? The Army? The fascist military industrial complex? Oh, that is so cool.