Month: September 2011

Sports

Letters From Your Editors: (Ryan Porush/Brent Pella) Welcomes You To The Daily Nexus Sports Page

September 22, 2011 by Brent Pella

UCSB! Welcome back. For the new faces, welcome to campus. It was this time last year that I was first walking the streets of Isla Vista as a Gaucho, fresh off the transfer boat from UC Santa Cruz. I played basketball at UCSC, a Division III...

Sports

Letters From Your Editors: (Ryan Porush/Brent Pella) Welcomes You To The Daily Nexus Sports Page

September 21, 2011 by Ryan Porush

Hello, my name is Ryan and I am one of your proud new sports editors. I am kind of obsessed with sports. You could say I bleed Gaucho blue and gold (and occasionally red). A couple things about me: I believe that basketball is the greatest ...

Water Polo

No. 8 Gauchos Have Record-Setting Weekend

September 15, 2011 by David Russo

Sports

UCSB Splits Pair of Games Over the Weeekend

September 15, 2011 by Paul-Michael Ochoa

Borrowing a travel tip from the men’s team, the UCSB women’s soccer team took a red eye flight to Michigan last Wednesday night to get an extra day’s rest to prepare for their pair of matches this past weekend. The extra rest immediat...

News

Students Urge Brown to Make Dream Act Reality

September 15, 2011 by Marissa Wenzke

Students and UC workers’ union members from across the state gathered in Sacramento on Monday in support of AB 131 — the second half of the California DREAM Act — which would enable students without full citizenship or permanent resid...