Seniors Sent Off in Style
On a night when four seniors took the Thunderdome floor for the final time, it was a sophomore who stole the spotlight.
Nicki’s Nifty News: Get Down with the Sickness
Cough, cough, cough. Sick? Join the club.
Global Climate Crisis Beckons Attention
The solar cycle, along with glacier cycles and ocean variability, undoubtedly affects the Earth’s climate. The same goes for variations in the Earth’s orbit and rotation. These effects can be charted back for millions of years with relative accuracy. We can use ice cores, fossil records and other geological studies to map these effects. However, the issue popularly labeled “global warming” doesn’t really refer to this.
Authorities Link Former Gaucho to E-mail Threat
The University of California Police Dept. has declared former UCSB student Arash Shamsian as a person of interest in its investigation of threats e-mailed to a UCSB chemistry lecturer last Thursday.
SB Clinches Regular Season Crown
Cases of Andre have been flying off the shelves for a Gaucho pennant celebration since Saturday night, when the UCSB women’s basketball team ran over UC Riverside to lock up its 12th Big West conference title in the last 13 years.
Game Conference Concerns
Last week marked the end of this year’s Game Developers Conference, an annual event held in San Jose, Calif. that focuses on everything relating to videogame development, programming and design.
Reckless Spending Makes No Cents
How many times, over the course of your college career, have you surfed to your online banking Web site to check your cash stores and instead found a giant monster – in the form of a ruthless overdraft fee – greedily ate your last paycheck? Ever find what should have been a balance of $394.12 […]
Globetrotting Journalist To Visit UCSB
Armed with little but his camera, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has trekked to Nepal, Darfur, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to tell the stories of countries ridden with internal strife and violent conflict.
Gauchos Earn Split With Lions
In its first four game series of the season, the UCSB baseball team (5-3 overall) came away with two wins in four well-contested games against LMU (3-5).
Fraud Charges Cause SB Employee to Resign
A former social services employee and an aid recipient were arrested last Thursday for allegedly defrauding Santa Barbara County of over $60,000.