The UCSB women’s tennis team competed in the 2010 Cal State Northridge Classic this weekend. Sophomore Erika Cano and freshman Casey Reese both lost in the finals of their respective flights, while also losing together in the finals of the B flight doubles championship.
Gaucho soccer did something it has never done before on Saturday night: capturing its first-ever Big West Tournament Championship in a 3-1 victory over Cal State Fullerton.
UCSB women’s basketball opened the regular season with a pair of losses this weekend at Pepperdine and #15 UCLA, losing 68-56 to the Waves on Friday and 66-52 to the Bruins on Sunday.
In anticipation of next month’s National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s College Cup, UCSB soccer aficionados have been storming into Harder Stadium in record numbers.
My conversion was largely circumstantial. Might I have become Buddhist had fate knocked differently? Actually, I read about Buddhism in high school and found it interesting, but I didn’t meet any Buddhists then.
I don’t claim to know an overarching “Meaning of Life,” but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a “test” propagated by an invisible, intangible Creator — God.
Albert Einstein once said that he desired to know “how God created this world,” for his scientific observations led him to a belief in the existence of a higher power, a “subtle spirit” largely unknowable to the human mind.
The last few prayers I had made were for a sign, sent weakly into the heavens, shriveling in my memory shortly thereafter like grapes left in a desert sun.
“Jewish” is possibly the most under-the-radar, versatile and vague word in the English language. The word “Jewish” can be used almost as frequently as a slang or curse word, but at least seems applicable in each use.
The Office of Student Life held a meeting last Friday to discuss the campus’ upcoming events.