The Opinion page is a place of controversial thought and discourse. It is rarely the moderate thinker or the complacent observer who chooses to write in, as demonstrated by the Jan. 11 letter to the e...
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Richard Rintoul, an orchestra professor at UCSB from 2006 to 2011, passed away in his sleep due to a heart attack on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. He was 56 years old. Last night, the UCSB orchestra performe...
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I have something called an “addictive personality.” This never felt like news to me. My parents shared this knowledge with us kids repeatedly and casually. “You’re equal parts Irish and German...
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Friends gathered at Campus Point Tuesday Sept. 6 to mourn the death and commemorate the life of UCSB student Mark Andrew Romasanta, II. The 22 year-old Santa Barbara native was last seen on the 6600 b...
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So you’ve finally made it, eh? You’ve pillaged Target’s college dorm aisle, awkwardly reached out to your future roommate in hopes of coordinating your bedspread and outfitted your whole extende...
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A petition started by a UC Berkeley activist group last spring is demanding that California’s Attorney General address allegations that certain UC Regents have unethical, vested interests in UC inve...
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I have long been amazed and infatuated with the school spirit at UCSB. Not the fanatical, body-painted sport culture characteristic of ASU or USC, but rather the subliminal, relaxed — but intense ...
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University of California Student Regent Jesse Cheng was arrested for sexual battery last year on Nov. 4, according to the Irvine Police Department.
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Last week the Orange County district attorney charged 11 University of California students with criminal conspiracy for having disturbed a presentation by the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. in 2010.
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Although the university has coped with a smaller budget and preserved essential services through staff cuts, hiring freezes, reductions in operating hours and departmental consolidations, these cutbac...
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Recent Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Ph.D. recipient Sugely Ubaldo Chaidez died in Dallas, Texas on Jan. 5 from bacterial meningitis.
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UCSB student Paul Herbert Frank died in his home on Dec. 15. He was 21 years old.
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Beloved environmental science professor William R. Freudenburg died in his Santa Barbara home on Dec. 28 after a two-year battle with bile duct cancer. He was 59 years old.
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UC Santa Barbara’s annual commencement weekend attracted over 40,000 visitors to campus in mid-June for a celebration of the achievements of this year’s graduating class of 2010.
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The Campus Elections Commission recently rejected a request to hold a re-vote on the Intercollegiate Athletic Scholarships Fee that failed to pass in the campus’s spring elections.
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“dusty rusty crusty musty ass california hills”
“frowning in plaid (haunted radios, bird bones + anthropomorphized wind)”
“warming my hands on bridges i’ve burnt”
“songs that make me see god”
“My Playlist #236”
“classy wine moment and intellectual conversation”
“90s heroin chic model off duty”
“tweet tweet bird emoji map emoji”
“not my circus, not my monkeys”
“a grave is probably cheaper than an apartment”
“ATE THESE BITCHES LEFT NO CRUMBS / DID IT IN DESIGNER PUMPS”
