Steven Ruszczycky

February 6, 2003

A Not-So-Sporting Chance

By Steven Ruszczycky

In case you haven't heard, you too can win tuition free for the 2003-04 school year, all you need to do is attend the game, have your name called from the student directory, make it to the floor in two minutes' time and ...

January 31, 2003

Living Without Vowels: A Better Kind of Outbreak

By Steven Ruszczycky

Lots of people are pretty mad about Bush's State of the Union Address, so mad that they held peaceful demonstrations and mocked the commander in chief's pronunciation of the word "nuclear."

January 24, 2003

Living without Vowels: We Don’t Have to GRID and Bare Bigot’s Assignment

By Steven Ruszczycky

Jerry Thacker looks very unassuming. He's middle-aged with a disarming, aw-shucks smile. He looks more appropriately suited for overalls and a nice pumpkin farm where the kiddies come every October.

January 13, 2003

Living Without Vowels: Simian Antics Drive I.V. Residents Ape

By Steven Ruszczycky

Scott is a good kid, even though he smokes cigarettes, cusses and is 27 years old. It's hard not to think of him as a child though because the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome that afflicts him has set his mind permanently around ...

January 9, 2003

Hollywood Globetrotters

By Steven Ruszczycky

The Golden Globes. It sounds the title of a porn flick, starring celestial-body sized breasts and a man with an overactive bladder.

January 8, 2003

Living Without Vowels: I Think I’m a Clone Now

By Steven Ruszczycky

The Internet is a fun place to play. You can find pretty much whatever your heart desires there. How about a little peace of mind that your genetic material will continue forever and ever once you kick the bucket? Oh, yo...

December 5, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Go Home, Sweet Home

By Steven Ruszczycky

The lights are out. Scraps of paper yanked along by the wind scrape along the sidewalks. That's it. Isla Vista during the holidays is a lot like that. Empty. Desolate. Boring.

November 15, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Students Get Schooled

By Steven Ruszczycky

You don't know hell until you've sat through a 15-minute lecture on possessive nouns or 45 minutes of a professor explaining the magic of a thesis statement, and what it can do for you.

November 8, 2002

‘Ghost Ship’ of Fools

By Angela Potter, Jessica Jardine, Steven Ruszczycky

Angela, Steven and Jessica all sit nestled around yet another oversized container, this time holding too-salty popcorn, in hopes that this seemingly trite "ghost story" will justify a perfectly good actress like Julianna...

October 24, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Hooray for Hacktivism

By Steven Ruszczycky

It starts with chalk. Possibly because it reminds the user of the safety and comfort afforded by kindergarten where any mess you scribbled on the ground managed to bring a smile to your teacher's face.

October 3, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Patriotism Sells: Americans Cash In on the Grand Old Flag

By Steven Ruszczycky

If you search for "unity ribbons" on Google, the first two websites you'll find can explain to you the intricacies of pagan cultures. American memorabilia vendors take a back seat, the first starting as the third site in...

September 27, 2002

Living Without Vowels: UCSB, Let ’em Ride

By Steven Ruszczycky

We warned you. Don't tell us that we didn't warn you. Chancellor Yang just approved nine of the recommendations in the Chancellor's Special Advisory Committee on Parking's final report.

September 20, 2002

Last Call

By Steven Ruszczycky

Over the summer, UCSB's Greek system adopted a new set of alcohol regulations for its houses, moving toward a semidry policy that forbids any of the raging Greek parties I.V. residents can so fondly remember.

August 28, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Welcome to Fantasy Isla Vista

By Steven Ruszczycky

I've worked summer Orientation for the past two years, and I could bet my paltry paycheck on the fact that a good number - if not the majority - of freshmen made their way down to I.V. at night to sneak in a little previ...

June 26, 2002

Inside Isla Vista’s Mess

By Steven Ruszczycky

Of the different properties Val walked me through, this house was the dirtiest. All the other properties fluctuated between slightly messy, a little dust and a small hole here and there, to sparkling clean.

May 28, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Wal-Mart Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

By Steven Ruszczycky

For most of us, we're rolling up our sleeves to spend the summer slaving away for a few shiny nickels and dimes. Summer jobs, however, are a learning experience in themselves.