Pride Foundation’s Walk To Give Aid for HIV Services
The Pacific Pride Foundation will host its 21st annual Heart and Sole AIDS Walk this weekend at Leadbetter Beach to raise funds for local HIV/AIDS testing and services. Check-in for the event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday and event proceeds will go toward nurse case management, medical care, therapy, food pantries and community education in […]
Gauchos Finish Nonconference Schedule at .500
With a chance to prove that it is a team on the rise, the UCSB women’s soccer team opens up conference play this weekend with two big games against Long Beach and Fullerton. UC Santa Barbara, which finished its nonconference schedule at a respectable 5-5-2, has a chance to make a big statement to the […]
Baseball MVP Races Heat Up: Kemp vs. Braun For NL MVP
Historically, Major League Baseball’s most valuable player award has been presented to a superb player whose team will play well into the postseason. This season however, things do not seem to be so clear-cut in the race for NL MVP. Los Angeles Dodger’s centerfielder Matt Kemp has challenged this notion with his outstanding play in […]
Baseball MVP Races Heat Up: AL MVP: A Four-Man Race
As baseball season comes to a close, we as fans are presented with several questions. What is the playoff picture going to look like? Who is going to make it to the World Series? What the hell happened to the Red Sox? This is also the time when we start to predict who is going […]
UCSB Falls in Big West Conference Opener
Conference openers are a team’s first chance to prove its prospective worth in league play, and for the UCSB men’s soccer team, that worth was not shown as the Gauchos fell to UC Riverside last night by a score of 3-1. It was just the second time this year that the Gauchos, the preseason pick […]
Holy Crap! Welcome Back to Another Year of Godly Debate
For all of you Nexus readers, Ask an Atheist is a safe haven. An opportunity to ask what it really means to be an atheist, a rationalist, or a skeptic. We listen to everyone, no matter your beliefs, and offer the chance to pose moral, scientific, or even deeply personal questions (and watch us squirm). […]
Berkeley Bake Sale Makes Light of Serious Societal Issue
The bake sale publicity stunt pulled by the UC Berkeley College Republicans was completely insensitive to the challenges faced by minorities who want to obtain a higher education. They basically made it impossible for most people to take them seriously because of their “joking” portrayal of the issue, which is a shame because they may […]
Film Award Chooses Gaucho as Finalist
The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation named UCSB alumna and screenwriter Cameron Lund a finalist in its 56th annual writing contest for an opportunity to gain exposure and a chance to win up to $15,000 in prize money. The organization began in 1955 at UCLA in honor of renowned film producer Samuel Goldwyn Sr. and has recognized […]
Big Sean Plays UCSB
In true UCSB fashion, Big Sean greeted students with an evening of chardonnay, lemonade and bullshittin’ last Saturday for the Welcome Back 2011 concert. The Detroit rapper stepped on stage at 10 p.m. and played a solid, hour-long set for hormonal first-years and excited returners. While the concert seemed less packed than last year’s Major […]
Superheroes: More Than Just the Spandex
For those of you like me (i.e. without lives), you know DC comics created a vast, universe-spanning reboot for 52 titles that are now arbitrarily labeled with #1 issues across the board. This is the biggest reboot for DC since Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985. Superheroes have transcended the comic book world and entered […]