UCSB Three-Game Win Streak Snapped by UC Irvine on the Road
If the UCSB women’s basketball team wasn’t familiar with Kassandra McCalister from their last meeting, when she scored 21 points, it is now. On Irvine’s senior day, the senior guard proved too much to handle for the Gauchos (5-7 Big West, 11-14 overall) as she led the Anteaters (8-6, 12-14) to a 72-65 victory, snapping […]
UCSB Falls to Long Beach State 3-1
On the road at Long Beach State to kick off a four-game road trip, the No. 12 UCSB men’s volleyball team fell to the 49ers 3-1 on Friday. After defeating No. 15 Northridge on Wednesday, the Gauchos dropped the match to a suddenly hot Long Beach team in a battle for eighth place in the […]
Tennis: Men Pick Up Win Against UCI, SMU, Women Fall to Santa Clara, SMU
After a pair of losses last weekend, the No. 62 UCSB men’s tennis team bounced back with a 5-2 win at No. 55 UC Irvine yesterday and a 4-3 win over SMU on Saturday. Santa Barbara improves to 6-4 overall and 1-0 in the Big West. In other action, the No. 65 women’s team finished […]
Women’s Swim & Dive Falls Just Short of MPSF Championship
After leading the first two days of the MPSF Swimming Championships held in East Los Angeles College, the UCSB women’s swim and dive season came to a disappointing end Saturday night, falling just short of taking home what would have been their first MPSF title and placing second behind BYU, 732-699. Santa Barbara was not […]
Softball Struggles In Season Opening Road Trip
The UCSB softball team concluded its season-opening 11-game road trip this past weekend, losing all five of their games in the Campbell/Cartier Classic, which was hosted by the University of San Diego and San Diego State. The Gauchos have lost 10 of their first 11 games and are on a six-game losing streak heading into […]
Baseball Takes One of Four Vs. No. 23 Oregon State
Head Coach Andrew Checketts began his tenure as a Gaucho this past weekend when UCSB dropped three of four games in a three-day series against No. 23 Oregon State. The Gauchos were able to pull off a one-run victory in extra innings during the third game of the series and fell to the Beavers 7-3, […]
I.V. Stabbing Raises Plenty of Questions for Residents
“They were looking for a fight — you could tell,” Chris Elder, a fourth-year psychology and sociology major said. Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning, Elder and a group of friends left a party at 6662 Del Playa Dr. and headed into the routine post-noise curfew traffic jam when they saw a group of roughly […]
Author To Speak About Creativity’s Role in Education
Educational adviser and New York Times best-selling author Sir Ken Robinson will discuss his newest book Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative at 8 p.m. tonight in Campbell Hall, arguing that Western culture’s existing education paradigm must shift to accommodate the challenges of learning and getting a career in the 21st century. Robinson’s […]
UC Clarifies Patent Rights Contract
Prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that Stanford University’s patent language was too vague to protect its claims, the University of California has reconfigured its patent policy. All employees hired on or before Oct. 31, 2011, are required to electronically sign the new amendment, which asserts that faculty members will forfeit the rights of […]
Local High Schools To Use Drug Detection Dogs
The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education approved the use of drug-sniffing canines in local high schools, beginning this fall. In response to an increase in student drug use, the Board of Education authorized a new partnership with Interquest Detection Canines with a three-two vote at their meeting last Tuesday. According to Interquest […]