O.P.P Misconduct Ends in Dismissal of Two Candidates

Following an endorsement issued in a UCSB Rec Sports newsletter, two candidates running for positions on the Associated Students Legislative Council were disqualified from the race last night.

Going for Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie was born with music in his blood, and probably a guitar in his hand. As the son of Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie is a pedigreed expert in working his audience. And, in his show at Campbell Hall last Wednesday, he did just that.

UCSC Sets Bar for Responsible Tokage

Uncomfortable. As in the feeling I get when a crackhead-turned-probation officer can’t stop shouting her paranoid delusions at me from the passenger seat: “The fucking pigs are going to recognize my red scooter. They’re gonna arrest us for all this shit!”

NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Picks

The Celtics will cruise through the NBA’s designated B League not because of their storied history or because everyone wants a Los Angeles-Boston final, no sir. Boston will win because of logic any grade-schooler playing 5 v. 5 on the blacktop can reason out: If you put the best players around the playground on the same team, that team will win. Simple, and never truer than when Kevin Garnett joined Ray Allen and Paul Pierce in a deal seconded only in one-sidedness to Memphis’ Pau Gasol “giveaway.” When the Big Three are healthy, Boston has been unstoppable, and, with the Promised Land so close, it would be hard to fathom a team so loaded losing a seven-game series. I almost feel sorry for the Atlanta Hawks, who, regardless of how they play, will get swept in four.

Tickle Me Pink

*Sniff sniff.* What is that smell? Oh, wait, I got it! Crayons! According to a study by Yale, crayon smell is the 18th most recognizable smell for adults. Colourlovers.com put together a whole exposé on crayons and gosh dang if it doesn’t take me back to Mrs. Branum’s second-grade class.

Santa Barbara Sobriety Center Provides an Alternative to Jail

In Isla Vista, many a reveler has learned the hard way that if someone is caught drunk in public, the individual is liable to receive a misdemeanor.

In Santa Barbara proper, things are a little different.

Bobbing for Bobby

By definition, improvisational jazz music thrives on an organic form of expression. Evolving (or devolving) from moment to moment, it flows according to the moods and tendencies of a few musicians on stage. A collective beat emerges from one note, and then it is destroyed. Instruments act like voices; they add, detract, contradict, interject, compliment and complement. Perhaps a vocalist walks out a bass line instead of a bassist, or the drummer utters an unexpected growl. Piano players strike the keys or reach inside to thrum the chords themselves. Every sound and pattern seems familiar yet different, and each time signature is standard yet totally unique.

UCSB Faculty and Staff Encourage Religious Tolerance

On Monday, April 14, the Daily Nexus featured a paid advertisement from an off-campus organization that constituted an unprincipled and grossly inaccurate attack against the UCSB Muslim Student Association. We, the undersigned faculty and staff at UCSB, affirm the right to freedom of expression as established in the First Amendment of the Constitution. However, we strongly denounce the inflammatory and unsubstantiated charges made in this ad.

Power of the Press

The best part about the power of the press is that it doesn’t really matter if you’re good or not, because people believe anything they read. With that in mind, congratulations to the Bad News Beers for their 17-0 IM softball victory yesterday.

The Makings of a Classic: Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Brothers. These three little words helped to completely change and reinvent the entire videogame industry into the behemoth that it is today. No other game even comes close in terms of global recognition, as you could ask almost anyone from any walk of life about this 23-year-old videogame. Everything about Super Mario Bros. has become synonymous with videogaming, but it’s important to know what makes this game such a global classic.