The Talented Mr. Johnson
After a disappointing finish to their 2008-09 season that culminated in a semifinal exit in the Big West tournament, the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team returns this season with plenty of reasons to believe in a Big West title.
Campus Pool To Host Big Weekend
The #9 UCSB men’s water polo team has another opportunity to earn its first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation win this weekend as it hosts the #2 Cal Bears on Saturday and then the #13 Pacific Tigers on Sunday. Fortunately for the Gauchos (10-10 overall, 0-3 in MPSF), they have the home pool advantage, which tends to be disastrous for visiting teams.
Fair Provides Students With Career Advice
Representatives from over 80 schools will be in the Arbor today for Graduate and Professional School Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., graduate program admissions officers from a wide variety of academic fields and professions will dish out information and tips on the grad school application process. The event is the culmination of Career […]
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The implementation of trayless dining at campus dining commons has significantly cut back on the average amount of food waste produced this quarter — in some instances by more than half. Last school year, Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board put plans in motion for a Sustainable Foods campaign, which resulted in the removal of all […]
SB Citizens Elect New Top Officer
Former city council member Helene Schneider was the big winner in Tuesday’s election and will serve as Santa Barbara’s newest mayor. The final ballots of the city-wide election were tallied by 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Schneider garnering 10,254 votes, or 44.8 percent of the total vote. Santa Barbara City Councilmember Dale Francisco came in […]
Gauchos Clinch Big West
A tie was all it took for the Gauchos Wednesday night, as #3 UCSB battled Cal Poly to a scoreless draw in front of 9,824 fans in San Luis Obispo. With the result, Santa Barbara left its northern rivals as the Big West Regular Season Champions.
Unexpected Violence Shocks Student
On Halloween day, I was sitting at an outdoor restaurant on campus with a friend when our conversation was interrupted by a strange commotion. We heard some shouts followed by a small stampede of Ghanaians running out of the nearby dorms, through the restaurant area and toward the fields behind the building. I would have gone back to my business if the kitchen staff hadn’t followed the mob in hot pursuit. I was, obviously, curious about what was going on and suggested that we go outside to investigate. Upon leaving the cafe, I noticed a man watching the swarm of Ghanaians running.
“What’s happening?” I asked him.
“There was a thief,” he responded.
“Oh my God,” my friend said in disbelief. “It’s a lynch mob.”
INTERVIEW: Exene Cervenka
“No one is ever going to pay you, and if you do get paid for stuff, that’s good,” Exene Cervenka told me the other day over the phone. “I don’t even care, as long as they listen to my music. In fact, it’s kind of like that Abby Hoffman book, Steal This Book – it’s like, the greatest title for a book ever.”
Former ESS Grads Counter Shutdown
The forthcoming closure of the Exercise & Sports Studies Dept. has spurned a wave of outcry from the student body, particularly the 5,000 undergraduates presently seeking a minor in the program. But lost in the current dilemma between budget cuts and the popular ESS minors are the voices of students that have come and gone through the program.
Local Sees Abuse of Power in Halloween Arrest
It was about midnight on Saturday and I had just about had enough of the Halloween festivities unfolding outside my Del Playa residence. I was completely content with sitting at my window, watching the hordes of out-of-towners wreck the street with stupidity when I noticed three of Isla Vista’s finest sitting on horses in my driveway. They must have felt pretty relaxed among the commotion because the horses were shitting all over the drive and walk.