Women’s Rugby: UCSB Takes on #7 Buckeyes
After completing the best season in the program’s seven-year history, the UCSB women’s rugby team is headed to Pennsylvania as the #10 seed in the opening round of the NCAA Division I rugby playoffs to face seventh-seeded Ohio State in the Sweet 16.
Slither | It’s Still Considered Passing
Do the names Roger Corman, John Carpenter and Wes Craven ring any of your bells like they ring mine? These master “horror” filmmakers revel in a trough of second-rate films which, due to their low production quality and lack of star power, make them so hokey that it’s laughable.
Leggies Prepare for Election, Debate Porn Nation Funding
Associated Students Legislative Council spent the majority of their brief 45-minute meeting yesterday discussing the upcoming A.S. spring election.
Track and Field: Santa Barbara Hits the Road for Tournaments
The UCSB track and field team will split up this week to face competition in two different locales. A portion of the squad will compete in the Cal Invitational Multi’s, held in Azusa and the others will head to Walnut, Calif., for the Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) Invitational.
Artist in Profile: Cuesta Drive
You just can’t quite put your finger on Cuesta Drive’s CD, Where the Palm Trees Grow. It sounds so familiar, yet at the same time, peculiarly different. That’s probably because their vast range of extremely dissimilar influences can most often be heard on a bike ride down DP on any given afternoon.
Cuts to College Funding Incite Campus Protests
Student activists joined 35th District Assembly member Pedro Nava and 23rd District Congresswoman Lois Capps in front of the UCen yesterday to speak out against recent federal cuts to education.
The Boy Least Likely To | The Best Party Ever | Too Young To Die Records
While my inner judgmental music critic constantly warns me not to judge a book – or album – by its cover, my inner six-year-old sometimes gets the best of me. Such was the case when I caught sight of the debut full-length album by the quirky British two piece, the Boy Least Likely To.
Blood Banks Converge to Pump Up Efficiency
The Tri-Counties Blood Bank joined with United Blood Services of Ventura at the beginning of the month, creating a new system for collecting and delivering blood throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns | Sub Pop
Political awareness is ultimately frightening. Most of us – or at least most people who would buy a Mudhoney album – are apprehensively aware of the social/political mess that currently envelopes the United States.
UCSA Asks for Hiked Lock-in Fee
In addition to the four other initiatives included on this year’s spring election ballot, the University of California Student Association is requesting a $2 lock-in fee increase, which would bring the total UCSA lock-in fee to $2.35 per student per quarter.