Gauchos Tame CSUN Matadors 61-44
While senior day isn’t until Saturday, the UCSB women’s basketball team rode its seniors to an impressive 61-44 victory against Cal State Northridge, its 11th consecutive win against the Matadors. The Gauchos improve to 6-7 in the Big West and 12-14 overall. Northridge drops to 10-4 in conference and 16-11 overall. “[I was] excited to […]
Revised Bill Would Allow A.S. To Freely Endorse New Candidates
After weeks of deliberation, the Associated Students Legislative Council passed an amended version of a bill restructuring the Election Code for the upcoming spring elections at Wednesday night’s weekly meeting. A.S. President Harrison Weber vetoed the council’s initial legislation — unanimously adopted two weeks ago — on the grounds that its provision preventing current elected […]
Jeremy Lin: Greatest African-American Basketball Player Ever
Linsanity has reached a new milestone. After only two-and-a-half weeks of stellar play, the basketball world is in agreement that Jeremy Lin has eclipsed Detlef Schrempf as the greatest African-American basketball player ever. So what? In this day and age is it truly necessary to categorize athletes on the basis of race alone? I thought […]
Board Debates Tentative Plan to Finance Bankrupt Shelter
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors convened on Tuesday to discuss plans to find permanent funding for the recently closed Bridgehouse Homeless Shelter in Lompoc. The 52-bed facility — previously operated by nonprofit Lompoc Housing Community Development Corporation — shut its doors on Jan. 17 and left many Bridgehouse residents in temporary emergency shelters […]
UC’s Web Courses Combat Increasing Class Enrollment
The UC system is offering a preparatory calculus class at UC Merced for its first online course and aims to expand the option to all nine of its undergraduate campuses by the end of the year. The UC Online Instruction Pilot Project is designed to test the feasibility of offering certain courses on the internet […]
New Study Reports Impact of Financial Status on Education
Stanford University sociologist Sean F. Reardon’s recent study revealed a 40 percent increase in the difference between standardized test scores of high-income and low-income students. The data indicates that financial status plays a pivotal role in American youth’s educational success. A University of Michigan study found a 50 percent increase in the gap between rates […]
Gauchos Fall to Long Beach State 70-58
Long Beach State continued its dominance of the Big West conference Saturday night, as the 49ers (20-7 overall, 13-0 Big West) beat visiting UCSB 70-58. In front of a sold out crowd in The Pyramid, Long Beach improved to 10-0 at home. With the loss, Santa Barbara (15-9, 9-4) falls to third place in the […]
UCSB Takes On League-Leading CSU Northridge
The Gauchos will say goodbye to their two seniors Emilie Johnson and Kelsey Adrian when the UCSB women’s basketball team plays its final two home games of the season this week, beginning with Cal State Northridge tonight. “They’re going to have friends and family here,” Head Coach Carlene Mitchell said. “But we’ll try to keep […]
Exploring a Game of Chance: La Lotería at Gallery 479
Many of us are familiar with the Mexican bingo-style game Lotería, whether we played it at home with our families, at day-care with our childhood friends, or with classmates to learn basic Spanish vocabulary. Recently, fourth-year art major Alyssa Guerra Brown took the brightly colored illustrations that inspire so many fond childhood memories and gave […]
Artsweek Finds Light “In Darkness”
I’ve never been inside a sewer. I’ve never been trapped in complete blackness for over a year. I’ve never had to fear for my life every second. But after seeing “In Darkness,” I feel like I have. This is a brutal, uncompromising movie. It’s not fun to watch. However, that doesn’t make it a bad […]