Women’s Rugby: Gauchos Rout Rival UC San Diego

The UCSB women’s rugby team picked a great time to shine, playing their best game of the season, defeating rival UC San Diego 27-5 Sunday at Harder Stadium, behind a smothering defense that kept San Diego in check on every possession.

Gaucho Rolls the Dice

I’ve recently started playing the classic board game Monopoly again. I was struck by an idea: The Monopoly board is a fitting metaphor for my time here at Santa Barbara. There are four sides on the board, each corresponding to a different year spent here.

Peace Group To Host Event In Place of Planned Speech

UCSB Arts & Lectures has had to cancel an upcoming lecture on nuclear weapons after keynote speaker Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, sustained a serious neck injury during a fall.

Nexus Crosses First Amendment Line in Column

Editor, Daily Nexus, If “Zone Out to Illicit Lust” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 6) by Ericka Koyama was supposed to be a joke, your readers didn’t get it. For one, it was not, in any way, funny. Second, it was unnecessarily graphic for the Nexus, even if it is a college paper. I literally stopped in […]

Board Funds Five Student Groups

The Associated Students Finance Board allocated its final $1,282.41 for Winter Quarter and discussed the annual budgets of two dozen A.S. entities at its meeting last night.

Fantom Must Return to the Dome for Gauchos’ Spirit

Editor, Daily Nexus, When I came to this institution two years ago, I was immersed in all that was UCSB – the nightlife down on DP, the lazy afternoons spent at the beach and the most beautiful women in the world. I hear the library is nice too, though I’ve never been. Now, I am […]

Student Health Seeks To Provide Incentives for Healthy Lifestyles

UCSB Student Health hopes to give students an ounce of prevention in return for the usual pound of cure with its Wellness Center (WellCen) program, slated to begin Fall 2006.

One Big Hurdle

Worthless ‘human

The incompetence of the Seahawks seemed to have rubbed off on the Nexus. Damn this small space that prevents the ‘human from making some witty super bowl reference.

Santa Barbara Cracks Cal Poly in Road Win

They say that vengeance is bittersweet, but don’t tell that to the UCSB women’s basketball team. Santa Barbara (11-8 overall, 6-2 in the Big West) went to Cal Poly and came away with an 80-71 victory Saturday afternoon.