Arts & Lectures’ Only Focus Is Outside Interests
The Arts & Lectures program needs to reexamine its priorities, and I would like to inform you of the misuse of its funding, against student interests. B.B. King is an American cultural icon, and the UCSB-sponsored Arts & Lectures program should prefer to expose students to such events in order to foster greater artistic, cultural and historical learning.
Fight Night Attracts, Raises Thousands
By 6:30 p.m., the line had worked its way from the Thunderdome entrance to the Pardall tunnel. Ring girls dressed in gold bikini tops, mini gold-striped boxing shorts and high heels patiently waited beside the red, white and blue colored boxing ring.
Concerts Promote Peace, Preservation
Crowds of people gathered in Anisq’ Oyo’ Park over the weekend to attend the Isla Vista Peace Festival Concert on Saturday and the Forests Awareness Concert on Sunday. The I.V. Peace Festival Concert – sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the student group Solidarity Against War – was supposed to follow the I.V. Peace Festival teach-in on March 11, but was rained out and rescheduled.
Activist Speaks on Work to Save Kenyan Forests
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai arrived to a sold-out crowd in Campbell Hall last Friday to discuss her award-winning work to restore forests and wildlife in Kenya. Maathai received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in founding the Green Belt Movement in 1976, which encouraged Kenyan women to plant nearly 30 million trees over three decades.