Tuesday Ballin’ With Nexus Sports
With the Boston Celtics off to a sluggish 6-9 start to the season and currently tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, rumors have been swirling that General Manager Danny Ainge may decide to break up the team. More specifically, the rumors assume that Ainge could abandon the prospect of competing for a title […]
Tuesday Ballin’ With Nexus Sports
The Orlando Magic currently hold an 11-4 record in the NBA this season, good for second in the eastern conference. Most of their success is attributed to the best big man on the planet: Dwight Howard. “Superman” is dominating the NBA in a way that has not been seen in decades, and he is on […]
Society Isn’t Colorblind Yet, So Our Laws Shouldn’t Be
Affirmative action is the misunderstood child of liberal politics in America. The reasons for and details of its implementation are hardly understood by most Americans today. It’s not “reverse racism,” it’s not a form of reparations and it’s not the rubber-stamp, automatic green-light admissions policy that a lot of people make it out to be. […]
Don’t Let That First World Problem Get You Down: Why You’re Bored and What You Can Do About It
As a student here at UCSB, life is tough. Sometimes we fall off our bikes; maybe we lose our favorite headphones. Maybe we get sad because we don’t have any friends, or it’s raining, or we’re pissed because that last grade wasn’t nearly high enough — we deserved better! On the other hand, sometimes life […]
Pitting Race Against Race Doesn’t End in Diversity
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair my friends. Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream … I have a dream that my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged […]
People’s Assembly Inside Regents Meeting 1/19/12 Courtesy of 2013FreeUC
Students protest the budget cuts to the University of California system on January 19th, 2012 at the Riverside campus. Video courtesy of 2013FreeUC. Tweets by 2013FreeUC
SB Zoo Welcomes Giraffe
Michael, a 16-foot-tall Masai giraffe, made a new home at the Santa Barbara Zoo last Tuesday as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums cooperative breeding program. Born in Toronto in August 2006, Michael spent the first five years of his life at Quebec’s Parc Safari before transferring to Santa Barbara. Zoo officials hope […]
UCPD Makes Arrests at UCR
UC students and faculty members from across the state gathered on the UC Riverside campus last Thursday to protest during UC Board of Regents meeting, ultimately resulting in the arrest of two protesters including UCR art lecturer Kenneth Ehrlich. As the meeting commenced inside the Highlander Union Building, demonstrators held a public forum outside, eventually […]
Hospital Passes Federal Inspection
The Santa Barbara County Psychiatric Health Facility was found to be back in compliance with federal regulations last month after undergoing a major overhaul of its premises and services over the past year. Following the death of a patient who was being held in seclusion in 2010, auditors from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
New Bill To Deter Executive Greed
State Sen. Leland Yee introduced a bill in the state legislature that would attempt to curb administrative salary increases at California universities within two years of tuition hikes or state budget cuts. If signed into law, SB 967 would mandate that new executives at California State Universities earn no higher than 5 percent more than […]