It was dirty, ugly and tough, but the UCSB women’s basketball team came out clean last night when it scraped out a victory against Cal State Northridge on the road 54-51. Head Coach Mark French and the rest of the Gauchos (9-8 overall, 4-2 in the Big West) have always been given fits in the Matadome, and last night’s victory was no exception.
With the exception of a few careless students walking inside to empty classrooms, most people left North Hall on Thursday afternoon, as a 45-minute fire alarm caused the building’s three wings to be evacuated. At about 1:30 p.m., a third-floor main electrical panel overheated, causing light smoke to emit from a fixture in the hallway, Capt. Wes Herman of the UCSB Station 17 firehouse said. Firefighters responded to the scene, but found no evidence of an actual fire.
Next Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. in Embarcadero Hall there will be a town hall meeting.
The UCSB men’s volleyball (2-5 overall, 1-3 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) team hosts a pair of MPSF opponents this weekend, starting Friday night against Pacific (2-5 overall, 1-3 MPSF).
Countering and perhaps shifting the paradigms that the Western world holds toward the Islamic world, religious scholar Reza Aslan will give a Santa Barbara audience this Sunday a closer look into the War on Terror.
During my three years at UCSB, I have been consistently frustrated with the massive amounts of waste that I see everyday around campus and in I.V.
Tickets to see legendary blues guitarist Riley “Blues Boy” King – better known as the great B.B. King – on May 16 go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.
Nina Love Anthony’s article, (“Bask in Porno’s Pleasures,” Daily Nexus, Jan. 25) is a sad example of how unaware she is of the destructive effects that pornography has on our society and on individual lives.