UCSB Takes Swing at Big West Championships

So it begins.

In their quest for an NCAA Tournament spot, the UCSB women’s tennis team will play rival Cal Poly in the first round of the Big West Championships on Friday at 3 p.m. in Indian Wells. The teams have met in the quarterfinals the past two seasons.

Workshops To Inform on Climate Change

This Saturday, UCSB will host the first of a series of climate conferences addressing the impact of global warming on the local environment.

Otherworldly ****

English artist Natasha Khan brings back the atmospheric, intricately orchestrated style of her debut album on her follow-up, Two Suns, a record that explores the instability and multiplicity of identity and takes place in a landscape filled by people with alter egos aplenty (Khan herself is best known by her musical stage name, “Bat for Lashes”).

Put Your Drink Aside, and Go for a Glide

At approximately 3:30 p.m., I was asked by Gary, the man sitting in the seat behind me, to pull the yellow handle that connected our 650-pound glider to the tow plane in front of us. My heart skipped a beat when I pulled and felt the handle reach a point of friction, move past it […]

Hair Stuck to Your Lipgloss?

Students struggled to ride their bikes even on flat ground yesterday, as strong winds swept the campus.

No Chance of Parole *

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A naïve and rage-filled man date rapes a girl so schnockered that she doesn’t realize the vomit on her blouse is her own. He pounds away at her until he notices that she has passed out, at which point she yells, “Whyayoostoppin’ moothurfucka!”

Endorsements: A.S. President

THREE PEOPLE came in to our office with plans. Only one made sense. The A.S. president is the face of the entire association. The president is the person freshmen first see when they come to campus and the person the administration looks to as a representative of the student body. Daniel Plotkin can be that […]

A.S. Tackles Fight Night, Racism

At last night’s Associated Students Legislative Council meeting, members traded barbs during a heated conversation that ranged from Fight Night to racism.

“Dragonball” Zzzzzzz… *

Over the holiday weekend, I found myself cornered at the Passover Seder table by a cousin (aged five-and-three-fourths years old) who seemed determined to tell me a story.

Blast From the Past

Due to imaginative and budgetary constraints, today’s weather comes to us from the past.