In its sixth game in three days a fatigued UCSB women’s water polo team lost 8-6 to #8 Arizona State in February’s Gaucho Invitational. This Friday the Gauchos, rested and wielding a newly improved pressure defense, seek revenge on the Sun Devils at Campus Pool at 4 p.m.
My eyes have been opened. When I read Bill Shiebler’s article (“Fight Against Financial Aid Cuts,” Daily Nexus, March 9) I was faced with a haunting question I had never before considered: How did Bill Shiebler get accepted to UCSB?
Local students looking to give peace a chance will have the opportunity to learn how they can protest against war during the first annual Isla Vista Peace Festival on Saturday. The festival, which is co-sponsored by KCSB-FM 91.9, the UCSB Solidarity Against War group and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), will feature a teach-in at I.V. Theater and a free concert.
The #7 UCSB men’s volleyball team looks to take its two-game winning streak up north this weekend, when it travels to face Stanford tonight and Pacific tomorrow night.
UCSB students should be aware of a new petition drive to put “parental notification” back on the California ballot. Californians have just spoken on parental notification – and they said, “NO,” loud and clear. Prop 73 was soundly defeated in last November’s election.
Crowds of strangers, eager for a spot on reality television, will try to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being real at an open casting call for “The Real World” in Santa Barbara this weekend.
If the owner of Saigon Express gets his way, customers might be able to buy a beer with their meal at the restaurant’s grand opening. The restaurant, which is taking the place of Menehunes on Pardall Road, is scheduled to open by the end of the month, once remodeling is finished.
If I was in a rock band, I would ride onstage on a gold-plated motorcycle. Unfortunately, the members of The Academy Is… had too much integrity for this death-defying stunt. However, Artsweek did interview Academy guitarist Mike Carden, which is death-defying in and of itself.
The human is becoming increasingly perplexed as to why teachers constantly refer to final written documents as “papers.” Sure, that is what you are turning in, “paper.” But can’t you just turn in 8-10 blank pages of “paper?”