New Plan Endeavors to Save Endangered Trout
The National Marine Fisheries Service released the final version of a comprehensive report about the issues and possible solutions for endangered steelhead trout populations throughout Southern California’s creeks and rivers. The “Southern California Steelhead Recovery Plan,” issued last month, is based off 12 years of research and claims river and watershed degradation have had a […]
Gauchos Nab First MPSF Win
Weeks of hard work in practice finally paid off for the No. 15 UCSB men’s volleyball team, as they captured their first MPSF victory on Friday with a 3-1 victory over Pepperdine. Previously losing their first four conference games, the Gauchos used a potent offensive attack and improved blocking to overcome No. 8 Pepperdine on […]
New Network Hosts Event Planning
UCSB alumnus Omri Cohen has created a web startup called Capsule, designed to enhance the event-planning and photo-sharing experience by connecting attendees in a private manner. After a year filled with events like weddings and bachelor parties, with no simple way of sharing the memories surrounding them, Cohen and his friend Cyrus Farudi, the website’s […]
Study Finds Positive Trend in Freshmen Class Success
A UCLA survey conducted during Fall 2011 indicates that incoming freshman are spending less time in the bottle and more time in the books. The Higher Education Research Institute of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies recently published the results of the “American Freshman” survey, which revealed that the class of 2015 consumes […]
Cal Poly Defeats UCSB
There’s a saying that goes “if something’s not working, change it.” But even that didn’t work for the UCSB women’s basketball team, which lost 67-52 Saturday afternoon to Cal Poly. It was the first time the Mustangs swept the series against the Gauchos since Cal Poly’s entry into the Big West in the mid-1990s. UC […]
IRS Tool Streamlines FAFSA
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid recently implemented an online tool that allows students to upload their parents’ and their own income tax information directly from IRS records. The IRS Data Retrieval Tool, a joint venture between FAFSA and the IRS, will replace the process of producing paper records of tax returns to verify […]
UCSB Grad Student Earns Fellowship
UCSB graduate student Alejandra Jaramillo is one of 15 recipients worldwide of the prestigious United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-L’Oréal Fellowship for Young Women in Life Sciences, recognizing her work in parasitology and epidemiology. Of the 165 fellows named since 2000, Jaramillo is the first UCSB student — fourth from the UC system overall […]
Keep Cyclists Safe While They Keep Your Gas Prices Low
I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to Nicholas Winger, Nico Cervantes and the unidentified others who came to my aid when I crashed my bicycle during my (successful) attempt to avoid impact with a vehicle driven by someone who apparently did not notice a cyclist in the bike lane. I’m grateful beyond words to […]
The Wednesday Hump: Heternormativity at Its Finest
I enjoy the crude humor and candid tone of the Wednesday Hump just as much as any Gaucho. However, what strikes me most about this column is its sense of exclusivity. It’s about one thing and one thing only: heterosexuals. Heterosexual intercourse is literally only the half of sexuality. How can a column that prides […]
Why the iPhone Will Never Carry That ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Stamp
Two weeks ago, the New York Times published a report entitled “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work,” detailing how Apple went from manufacturing most of its products in the United States in 2002 to today, where virtually all manufacturing is done abroad, especially in China. The piece provides an in-depth look at the […]