Drew Atkins

January 21, 2004

Being Turned Loose With Sharks

By Drew Atkins

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 graduate school for reasons...

January 8, 2004

The Artful Dodger: An Early Start for Failure

By Drew Atkins

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 failure.

November 24, 2003

Blue Traffic Lights: Neoconservatism History 101

By Drew Atkins

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 conservatives - like Pat Buchana...

November 14, 2003

New Gauchos Love UCSB Activities

By Drew Atkins

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 enthusiasm this school year...

November 12, 2003

Sexy, Sinister Neo-Conservatives

By Drew Atkins

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 raging like a volcan...

November 7, 2003

Sweet Send-off

By Drew Atkins

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 the gathered musici...

October 31, 2003

Cookies ‘n’ Milk: the New Beer for Halloween This Year?

By Drew Atkins

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 the past go to die.

October 30, 2003

Proposed Plan Kills the Mood for Office Love

By Drew Atkins

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 individual has powe...

October 30, 2003

The Strokes | Room on Fire | RCA

By Drew Atkins

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, because there's been n...

October 17, 2003

Talk Traces Chinese-Americans’ Past

By Drew Atkins

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 history, speak on the h...

October 13, 2003

UCSB To Join Biotech Partnership

By Drew Atkins

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.

October 3, 2003

Presidential Hopeful General Wesley Clark Isn’t All He Claims to Be.

By Drew Atkins

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 debacle.

October 2, 2003

Speaker Denounces Terrorism

By Drew Atkins

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 such as terrorism.

September 24, 2003

Bush’s Doublespeak Jeopardizes National Welfare

By Drew Atkins

I've been giving some thought recently to doublespeak, the concept introduced in George Orwell's novel 1984 that entails people accepting two opposing positions at the same time.

May 16, 2003

RecCen Prepares to Expand

By Drew Atkins, Travis Hunter

A contract has been awarded to Viola Construction Co. of Oxnard to handle the RecCen expansion project. The company's bid of $11,876,000 was about $120,000 lower than the next lowest bidder, FedCon of Valencia.

May 12, 2003

Campbell Hall To Host Presidential Hopeful

By Drew Atkins

Break out the American flags and partisan rhetoric because presidential election season starts today for UC Santa Barbara. Democratic presidential candidate and Ohio senator Dennis Kucinich will speak at Campbell Hall to...