SBPD Honors Professor for Service

January 27, 2004 by

UCSB students are used to feeling like they are at their teacher's mercy, but they are probably not used to facing one with the power to throw them in the slammer.
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Santa Barbara’s ‘Jack of all Trades’

January 26, 2004 by

Officer Jeff Browning's voice is dry and level. He is looking out over the bow of his harbor patrol boat at a crowd of yachts and warships bobbing at anchor.
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Being Turned Loose With Sharks

January 21, 2004 by

You might say that I'm on a rampage. An early strain of midlife crisis has struck me like an arrow and it's been making my behavior quite panicky and erratic. I've realized that unless I go to graduat...
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The Artful Dodger: An Early Start for Failure

January 8, 2004 by

They say the best way to guarantee you won't do something is to make it a New Year's resolution. Look at me for living proof of this adage. We're only a few days into the year and already I'm an utter...
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Blue Traffic Lights: Neoconservatism History 101

November 24, 2003 by

The term "neoconservative" has wrongly become a synonym for ultraconservative or zealously right-wing. A distinction should be made between those known as "paleoconservatives" - old-style conservative...
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New Gauchos Love UCSB Activities

November 14, 2003 by

This year's freshman class may be slow to learn the rules of the bike path and how to share the sidewalk with skateboarders, but they have jumped into UCSB's extracurricular scene with unusual enthusi...
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Sexy, Sinister Neo-Conservatives

November 12, 2003 by

I'm writing a romance novel about the neo-conservative takeover of the White House. Bubbling underneath all the exchanged glances over tables of power, the handshakes and smiles, there is raw emotion ...
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Sweet Send-off

November 7, 2003 by

The concert had been thrown together haphazardly, but admirers and friends were swift to respond. Elliott Smith, one of our generation's foremost singer/songwriters, had committed suicide Oct. 21, and...
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Cookies ‘n’ Milk: the New Beer for Halloween This Year?

October 31, 2003 by

Students of UCSB, I come before you today with intrepid ideas and profound propositions. Gone are the days of the kegger, I say to you - gone, cast into that dark place where such barbaric things of t...
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Proposed Plan Kills the Mood for Office Love

October 30, 2003 by

A September 25 draft from the Office of the President of the University of California would alter University policy to prohibit "romantic, physically intimate and/or sexual" relationships in which one...
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The Strokes | Room on Fire | RCA

October 30, 2003 by

As far as anti-climactic albums go, Room on Fire delivers the goods. People expecting the Strokes to mature as musicians or hit the infamous sophomore slump will have no cause for celebration here, be...
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Talk Traces Chinese-Americans’ Past

October 17, 2003 by

A lecture at Campbell Hall last night detailed Chinese-American struggles both past and present. One hundred and fifty people heard Iris Chang, journalist and best-selling author on global Chinese his...
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UCSB To Join Biotech Partnership

October 13, 2003 by

What goes on in a frog's brain is one question among many that could bring millions in federal research dollars to UCSB and, if answered, could shape the technology of the 21st century.
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Presidential Hopeful General Wesley Clark Isn’t All He Claims to Be.

October 3, 2003 by

This is the story of 135 power-hungry status seekers, seemingly chosen at random to take part in the latest and most embarrassing display of political absurdity this side of the 2000 Presidential deba...
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Speaker Denounces Terrorism

October 2, 2003 by

Anita Pratap, award-winning journalist and author, spoke to a crowd of nearly 300 people Wednesday evening in Campbell Hall. Pratap spoke about her experiences as a journalist and author on topics su...
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