Oh, Brother
If the success of exported films and sitcoms is any indication, people find the lives of middle-class Britons – even, or maybe especially, the unremarkable ones – to be highly entertaining.
Cross Country: UCSB Receives National Ranking, Closes Season
With both the #13 men’s and #7 women’s teams now nationally ranked, UCSB cross country Head Coach Pete Dolan can use Friday’s Titan Invitational to get a good look at the next generation of Gaucho runners. The top nine runners for each team will skip Friday’s race in order to get extra rest in preparation […]
Horowitz Should Speak as He Pleases While at UCSB
Editor, Daily Nexus, I am writing in response to the article (“David Horowitz’s Lecture Should Not Be Tolerated,” Daily Nexus, Oct. 18). Mr. Tohe claims that Horowitz wants to take away professors’ first amendment rights to state their political opinions in class and then argues that Mr. Horowitz should not be allowed to speak at […]
Leggies Meet Outdoors to Support Tenants
Associated Students Legislative Council approved an unusual request last night and held its weekly meeting outdoors under a twilight sky.
A Fair Trade Lecture to Remember
On Tuesday, October 10, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz came to UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Stiglitz, also a renowned author, wrote the books, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Globalization Work, among others. In keeping with the themes of his literary works, most of his lecture was concerning globalization and how he believes it “affects every aspect of society.”
Column on Text Messaging Strikes Out on Main Points
Adam Wenger’s criticism of text messaging (“Vibration Celebration Inappropriate,” Daily Nexus, Oct. 16, 2006) that people lose conversational skills by relying on text instead of talking to communicate is misplaced. Rather, the problem is text users losing touch with writing at an elementary level. Your self-example of forgetting to capitalize the first word of each […]
IVRPD To Send Power Underground
The lofty poles and power lines on El Colegio Road and Camino Corto will soon be another relic in Isla Vista’s history, now that the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District has unanimously approved a grant of easement with Southern California Edison.
Revenge Is Sweet
UCSB is no stranger to concerts, but it’s a stranger to the stranger side of music.
Jazz Hands
There are no floating music notes on Norton Wright’s canvases, but you can still feel the beat of the music through the brushstrokes. Paying tribute to America’s jazz legends, Artamo Gallery sounds off with Wright’s vibrant show of artistic expressionism, aptly entitled “Jazzworks: a painter’s salute to Jazz.”