New Web Site Evaluates Professors
A new Web site aims to assist students with picking their professors, based on the grades the instructors give out. UCLA alumni Mike Moradi and Brandon Sos launched theCampusBuddy.com for UCSB this month to provide students with the grade distributions of college professors. The site joins the ranks of similar Web sites, such as RateMyProfessors.com […]
Bigfoot!
Congrats, Warrior fans. Yao’s giant foot just guaranteed your team a place in the playoffs. Too bad Kobe and Co. will sweep through the 1 vs. 8 series.
A.S. Bike Path Improvements Depend on Students’ Input
This Tuesday and Wednesday mark the second UCSB Bike Gripe of the year, put on by Associated Students Bicycle Improvements Keep Everybody Safe, where students will have a great opportunity to alter the course of bicycle path and parking projects here at UCSB.
Students Put Considerable Research Into ICB Protest
In attempting to portray the more than 500 protesters who partially shut down the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies annual conference on Tuesday, Feb. 12 as impulsive and confused, Scott A. Heimerman (“Proper Protests Do Background Checks,” Daily Nexus, Feb. 14) projects his own deep personal confusion onto a group of people who, by contrast, had a clear and well-researched objective. The protesters sought to prevent an institution contributing to unthinkable levels of death and destruction from meeting on their campus. They accomplished exactly that goal.
Police Blotter
Steak, Guacamole and a Deadly Weapon, Please Saturday, Feb. 23, 4:33 a.m. — Officers stationed at the Isla Vista Foot Patrol office received an early-morning call concerning a man “passed out drunk” in front of Freebirds. When deputies arrived minutes later, the 19-year-old man was laying on the sidewalk in front of the door, vomiting. […]
RIAA Crackdown Prompts Forum on File Sharing
The Recording Industry Association of America has stepped up its campaign against illegal file sharing on campus networks, and some UCSB students are bearing the fines.
Group Reviews Facts of Frimpong Trial
With the sentencing of former UCSB soccer player Eric Frimpong drawing near this week, nearly 50 students assembled last night to review the original trial.
Astronomers Strive For Global Network of Telescopes
Santa Barbara’s Las Cumbres Observatory is as immaculately clean as an operating room. On the ground leading to the entrance of its lab lies a four-by-six white sheet, which at first seems insignificant in a room full of rainbow-colored filters and large machines that will build a network of telescopes. However, when someone steps on the sheet, it clings to the bottom of one’s shoes like tree sap and removes all traces of dirt.
“Straight Cash Homey”
I’m amazed that the idiots at the Prevention Research Center would send me a long survey and a $10 bill and think that the money would actually inspire me to fill out the survey and send it back. Thanks for the cash homeys, but now that you’ve paid me, what incentive do I have to […]
Nicki’s Nifty News: I Spy a Delicious Fly in My Soup
Next time you spot a spider in your drink at a restaurant, don’t be so quick to return your plate. Turns out, bugs are actually pretty delicious and good for you. More than 30 scientists got together at a conference in Thailand to talk about munching on insects. They say bugs could be a useful source of food and nutrients if there is some kind of emergency and Mom’s pantry full of canned foods won’t suffice.