East Meets West
Beads, boobies and beer are not the first things that come to mind when one thinks of human rights. Nevertheless, this year the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival will showcase “Mardi Gras: Made in China,” an expos
Column: Hits, Runs and Bonds
It’s only a matter of time before Barry Bonds hits home run number 714*. At least, it seems like it’s only a matter of time before Barry catches the Sultan of Swat on the all-time home run list. Right now the Bay Area slugger is sitting on five home runs for the season and just 713* for his career. He’s been there forever and it isn’t because he’s drawing his typical amount of intentional walks either. Bonds has been watching called third strikes, swinging and missing and looking flat-out washed-up at the plate.
Regents Pass Measures To Reform Payment Practices
SAN FRANCISCO – In the same meeting that three state senators and roughly 30 members of the public demanded University of California President Robert C. Dynes’s resignation, the UC Regents attempted to rectify the compensation scandal currently plaguing the organization. During yesterday’s meeting, held at the Laurel Heights campus of UC San Francisco, members of the Board of Regents unanimously passed Action Item RE-74, a compilation of 23 measures proposed by the Task Force on UC Compensation, Accountability and Transparency. The Regents commissioned the task force to provide recommendations for reforming compensation practices.
Fighting Dirty
Cory Booker is a 32-year-old Yale Law grad, Rhodes scholar, college football star and hopeful future Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a city with one of the highest poverty and crime rates in America. Booker’s opponent is Mayor Sharpe James, a consummate politician who has dominated the last twenty years of Newark politics. Booker takes great lengths to know his constituency. He meets and debates with hundreds of citizens in Newark’s poorest neighborhoods daily.
Three Vie To Fill Vacant D.A. Spot
With no incumbent for the first time in almost 25 years, the position of district attorney is under close contention by two UCSB alumni and a current assistant district attorney. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon is retiring after 23 years in office, and the three opponents vying to replace him include Assistant District Attorney Christie Stanley and private attorneys Doug Hayes and Gary Dunlap.
Piano Man
In a world where one’s middle-class neighbors get shot at their front door, where citizens are afraid to venture across town after dark and where the fear of bombings is neverending, it is a novelty if foreigners are not kidnapped. This is the world of a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and a world we cannot even begin to fathom.
Leggies Pass Facebook, Lighting Resolutions
Yesterday marked the last meeting of the 2005-06 Associated Students Legislative Council before turnover next week, when newly elected members will be sworn in. At their meeting, the Leggies passed two resolutions, one about university judicial policies and another concerning campus lighting.
Redemption
“No More Tears Sister” describes the life and painful death of human rights activist Dr. Rajani Thiranagama in war torn Sri Lanka. Through conversations with family members, letters and dramatizations, director Helene Klodawsky takes her audience back to the 1970s and [980s, when revolution and mortality were on everyone’s mind.
Right to Remain Silent
At 9 a.m. on an overcast Saturday morning, deep in Ellison Hall – the citadel of the UCSB Film Studies Dept. – the organizers of the Reel Loud Film Festival met for this year’s selection day. This is the festival’s 15th year of inspired art and mayhem, and an ambitious body of films culled from a year’s worth of production by our campus’ resident auteurs were up for their judgment day.