Gauchos Snap Win Streak
In a game fraught with disorder, Santa Barbara fell to the #18 Anteaters 2-0 on a cold Wednesday evening in Irvine. While a win would have clinched a Big West Conference Championship, the loss gives the Anteaters (13-3-3 overall, 6-2-1 in the Big West) a one-point edge over the Gauchos (11-7-0, 6-3-0 Big West) with only a game left to play.
Measure D Will Not Get Funding For I.V. Projects
There is an important local issue on the ballot in the Nov. 7 election, called Measure D. This measure would change the amount of sales tax you pay for local transportation from the existing one-half cent per dollar to three-fourths cent per dollar, starting in 2010.
Leggies Hear Resignation, Resolutions
The Associated Student Legislative Council held a busy meeting last night, discussing three bills and two resolutions, allocating money, approving appointments and accepting the resignation of yet another member. Leggies passed a resolution supporting better campus lighting, but tabled a controversial resolution supporting the recent protests in Oaxaca. As for the bills, the council failed to pass a bill to expedite meetings, tabled a bill concerning the A.S. Isla Vista Tenants’ Union, but passed a bill calling for the Bhakti Yoga Club to be recognized as a nonprofit organization, allowing them to continue serving lunches to its members on campus – an activity recently banned by the Office of Student Life.
Check Out the View
Landscape paintings can be, well, boring at times – showing vast panoramas of unknown spaces with great artistic skill, but not always providing a direct connection for the viewer.
SB Drops First Conference Match
While most UCSB students were recovering from their adventurous Halloween weekend, the UCSB men’s club water polo team made a quick trip up to San Luis Obispo on Saturday for a match against rival Cal Poly.
Proposed A.S. Bill Misses Underlying Grammar Woes
During last week’s Associated Students Legislative Council meeting, a bill was introduced to the floor to decrease the amount of time spent revising grammatical errors in bills on the grounds that the “knowledge of correct spelling and sentence structure has historically been inaccessible to low-income communities and communities of color.”
Frat To Offer Food, Dance, Election Info
Politics, Freebirds and dancing typically don’t enter spheres of influence, but tonight the unlikely tripod will encourage smarter, savvier and less apathetic voters to perform their civic duty.
Honor the Warrior
“Whether revered or reviled in their lifetimes, history’s movers framed their questions in ways that were entirely disrespectful of conventional wisdom. Civilization has always advanced in the shimmering wake of its discontents.”
Jefferson? Paine? Wrong.
Swimming: UCSB Faces More Stress Than Midterms
Head Coach Gregg Wilson of the #1 UCSB swim team has a busy weekend ahead, with his daughter expecting a baby any day now in addition to preparing his team for the competition it will face in the next three days.
Suggestion of Leggings Is a Fashion Faux Pas for Us All
I would like to comment on the opinion piece by Caroline Wolf (“Finding Fall Fashion for Isla Vista Weather,” Daily Nexus, Oct. 26, 2006.) Contrary to her obviously misinformed opinion, leggings are not and will never be considered something “fashionable.