Tiye Baldwin

October 29, 2004

Grad Division Addresses Student Diversity Needs

By Tiye Baldwin

Graduate students, as well as university faculty and staff, met Thursday afternoon to share information and discuss issues of diversity within the graduate division of UCSB.

May 21, 2004

Challenging Your Beliefs

By Tiye Baldwin

Strict adherence to any ideology is the very definition of rigid thinking. To accept a particular line of thought unflinchingly is to imply that your own wisdom is boundless.

May 13, 2004

Turn Negative Media’s Lemons Into Lemonade

By Tiye Baldwin

Peace and happiness - they're in abundant supply. You just have to know where to look. Media-inspired thoughts have the power to undermine your peace of mind. Digital bombs are exploding in and around your consciousness ...

March 30, 2004

White House Finds WMD

By Tiye Baldwin

New evidence of WMD was found on Capitol Hill last week. Weapons of Mass Distraction came pouring out of the White House and through news outlets in an attempt to change the subject of public dialog. The 9/11 Commission ...

March 3, 2004

Richy Rich Gettin’ Richer

By Tiye Baldwin

An open letter to all the self-righteous, high-paid taxpayers and their equally pompous offspring: Dear Pillagers of the Public Trough, I'm poor. I didn't used to be. But now Republicanomics is dictating more pain for th...

January 9, 2004

The State of the State

By Tiye Baldwin

A well-delivered speech can give you a gut feeling. Words are emotionally coded. They carry inferences, demands and promises. Coming from the mouth of a masterful politician and/or actor, well-choreographed word combinat...

September 24, 2003

Colorblind or Just Blind?

By Tiye Baldwin

Higher education is the de facto gateway to economic success and political power in the United States. Like magic, 54 could erase any documented disparity - paper trail - between the blacks and whites and any other ethn...

September 23, 2003

Local Volunteers Clean Trashy Shorelines

By Tiye Baldwin

While it may be common in Santa Barbara County to find bottles, cans and the occasional lost partygoer washed up on the beach, a crack pipe is not your typical beach debris.

September 19, 2003

Volunteers To Clean Beaches, Trail

By Tiye Baldwin

Santa Barbara residents will have several opportunities to participate in a global effort to preserve and care for natural resources as the International Coastal Cleanup, California Coastal Cleanup Day and National Publi...

April 4, 2003

Military Families To Receive Veggies

By Tiye Baldwin

Families of U.S. military personnel will be receiving support on the home front in the form of leafy greens, thanks to Operation "Salad for Soldiers."

January 22, 2003

We Came, We Saw, We Dot-commed; Could You Spare a Nickel?

By Tiye Baldwin

Oh to be a dot-commer when the world was rife with stock options, catered two-hour lunches and, last but not least, jobs. That was then and this is now.

January 9, 2003

Move Over, bin Laden

By Tiye Baldwin

Prior to hopping on that nonstop flight to Columbus, Ohio, we did get to experience the new holiday tradition. Everyone is a suspect. Ever since my five-year-old son was pulled out of line and asked to remove his shoes, ...

January 9, 2003

Filter To Stop Oceanbound Trash

By Tiye Baldwin

A new water quality treatment project is currently under construction at the intersection of Embarcadero Road and Del Playa Drive. The Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. is managing the installation of the undergrou...

January 8, 2003

Boxer, Capps Ask for State Control of Oil

By Tiye Baldwin

Congresswoman Lois Capps and Senator Barbara Boxer recently authored a letter to President Bush asking him to stop the expansion of oil drilling off the coast of California.

November 22, 2002

New Complex To Increase Local Housing

By Tiye Baldwin

A new housing development will be expanding residential Goleta. The Towbes Group, Inc. is building the Willow Springs apartment complex on 18.4 acres of land near Los Carneros Road, Highway 101 and the airport.

November 14, 2002

Capps Advocates Bill to Fund Mission Preservation

By Tiye Baldwin

Newly re-elected Congresswoman Lois Capps is wasting no time getting to work and is already pushing a restoration fund for the missions of Santa Barbara County.