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The UC Santa Barbara Associated Students Senate passed a bill at their Oct. 11 meeting to create a memorial for Isla Vista cliff fall victims alongside the Isla Vista Community Services District and S...
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Three years after the creation of the Diversity and Inclusion task force, here is how we have honored DEI.
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“I just don’t understand why the pineapple is in the middle,” he fervently explained. “Everything about that banana is raw sex appeal.”
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It can feel as though calls for action from UCSB administration fall on deaf ears — but no longer!
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No one here drinks. Seriously. Del Playa is actually just a place that we gather at on weekends to worship Chancellor Yang and give him all our money.
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Empty-handed in my pilgrimage toward the truly exquisite CLIT. My bildungsroman has come and gone … I have passed my point of no return.” Simpcellington, a virgin, turns 22 on Thursday.
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Sarah Danielzadeh, a fourth-year English major and former Letters and Sciences senator, beat 11 other candidates in a special election for Associated Students Student Advocate General.
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Physical distancing requirements have made this Ramadan different from many students’ childhood celebrations.
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As the second game of the Blue-Green rivalry draws closer, staff writer Annika Pearson checked in with Head Coach Tim Vom Steeg to get his thoughts on this historic matchup.
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The T-shirts were created by Carlton-Carew to promote the upcoming premiere of her documentary series.
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Beyond its existence as an event space, the MCC is focused on giving voice to students.
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There is more to a university than its numbers; the way that students are supported and included contributes to their academic and professional success.
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Protestors sang, chanted and cried in resistance to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” on illegal border crossing.
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New Editor-in-Chief Jorge Mercado introduces himself and examines the past three years in college, and the nexus, that has led him to this point.
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College kids everywhere take to trivia events about as well as they do to pizza and beer, but there’s something distinctly Isla Vistan about the tradition at Woodstock’s, which opened its I.V. loc...
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Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
