Watch Out
This weekend Santa Barbarians are being encouraged to take a timeout from their usual rabblerousing and take an educational trip abroad. Presented by Arts & Lectures, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival hopes to enlighten moviegoers on global politics and challenge attendees to recognize and acknowledge the ongoing struggle for human rights. The original festival, which takes place in London and New York, chooses a select number of films to tour the country as part of the organization’s traveling film festival. Human Rights Watch Director Bruni Burres says that they hope to make the film festival an annual event for the UCSB community.
Welcome to the Machine
Remember back in the day when only the who’s who had cell phones? Now if one cannot get a hold of another’s cell, their lives are in disarray. The ‘human was befuddled when two – that’s right two – kids in lecture the other day answered their respective phones in class just to tell whoever […]
Waves Drown UCSB
The UCSB baseball team’s old habits came back to haunt it as the squad issued 13 walks and hit two batters in a 10-5 loss to #20 Pepperdine University. Five of the Waves’ (38-18 overall) 10 runs came on free passes, and the squad combined timely hitting with the extra base runners to take an 8-3 lead after three innings.
“The walks and our lack of intensity put us in a hole and it seemed like we were down 20-0 the whole day,” Head Coach Bob Brontsema said. “Our lack of command pitching-wise kind of sucked the wind out of us.”
Sex Dolls End Humanity
I don’t know what killed off the dinosaurs. Maybe it was an asteroid. Maybe it was disease. Maybe it was a combination of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola. I’ll probably never know for sure, but I do think I’ve managed to figure out the eventual source of humanity’s demise. That’s right, I think I’ve managed to pinpoint the exact cause of our extinction. RealDolls are the world’s finest love dolls. These overgrown Barbie and Ken cousins feature ultra flesh-like silicone rubber skin, an articulated skeleton for realistic sexual positions and enough portals of love to keep the whole family occupied during holiday get-togethers.
Students Rally to Impeach Bush
Over 100 students gathered in Storke Plaza yesterday to protest President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping policies during “Impeachfest,” which featured presidential impersonations and the throwing of peaches at the national leader’s effigy. Students for Impeachment hosted the rally and brought local Isla Vista band Iration to play a set. Impeachfest included speeches from retired UCSB sociology professor Dick Flacks and Students for Impeachment member and third-year political science major Jake Thorn. Second-year political science major Patrick Donahoe donned a plastic George W. Bush mask at the event and gave a sarcastic oration, and the rally also featured a voter registration drive and a bank of local representatives’ phone numbers and e-mails. Thorn said Bush’s orders permitting warrantless surveillance of citizens’ telephone calls and e-mails violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which authorizes the government to collect foreign intelligence information through surveillance, but also includes limitations of that power.
Fear Factor
Picture this: a country living in fear after a series of brutal terrorist attacks and a president manipulating that fear to strip citizens of their democratic freedoms. Sound familiar? That is because Pamela Yates wants it to. Yates is the mind behind “State of Fear,” a documentary dealing with the 20-year war between the Peruvian government and the Shining Path terrorist group. The film features interviews with everyone, from a former Shining Path member who fondly recounts her devotion to Maoist leader Abimael Guzman to a woman who was abducted, raped and tortured by the Peruvian military during former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s war on Guzman and his terrorist activities.
Santa Barbara Closes Out Season
The #71 UCSB men’s tennis team ended its season Saturday with a 4-0 loss to #20 Cal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Gauchos (15-11 overall) lost the doubles point and went on to lose three singles matches before play was suspended with Cal having already clinched the 4-0 victory. With a Big West Championship trophy and a multitude of postseason accolades, the end to Santa Barbara’s season could hardly be considered a disappointment.
Hey, Readers, Take a Look, It’s in a Book
Books: What are books but odd bricks of paper we are supposed to read in order to pass our exams? A pile of books brings the top-shelf liquor into reach. They provide a quick scrap of paper to jot down a phone number – endless possibilities. Ask anybody over 40, however, and they will be completely ignorant of the myriad of uses of books.
Volleyball Pros Face Off at AVP Stop in SB
UCSB students will have the opportunity to watch – and even try their skills against – world-class volleyball players this weekend as the Association of Volleyball Professionals hosts the Santa Barbara Bud Light Open at West Beach downtown. The tournament starts at 8 a.m. today on Cabrillo Boulevard, and it is one of 16 stops on the AVP/Crocs Pro Beach Volleyball Tournament – the nation’s largest volleyball tournament.