Outside Opinions

April 25, 2024

Rick Benjamin: Cultivating curiosity and community through unconventional teaching

By Josie Hurwitz

Josie Hurwitz reflects on the power of teaching unconventionally and her experience with professor Rick Benjamin.

April 18, 2024

We are Cannibalizing Ourselves: Israel-Palestine Is Not a Competition

By Yiu-On Li

Yiu-On Li reflects on how the Israel-Palestine conflict reveals a problem with how we discuss contentious issues.

October 16, 2022

Outside Opinions: Vote YES on Prop. 1

By Opinion Editor

Joan Hartmann and Gregg Hart make the appeal for voting YES on Prop. 1 this coming month.

May 20, 2022

Reaching for the Stars, the TMT Project Fails Those Below

By Opinion Editor

The Mauna Kea Protectors at UCSB critique the UC's involvement in the Thirty Meter Telescope project, urging divestment.

April 28, 2022

The Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Migrant Essential Workers in California

By Opinion Editor

A research team at the UCSB Center for Publicly Engaged Scholarship breaks down four things you need to know about being a migrant essential worker in California during the pandemic.

March 10, 2022

Graduate Students Deserve Better Dental Care, and Resources Other Than Student Groups

By Janna Haider, Jamiee Cook

Janna Haider and Jamiee Cook unpack the importance of dental care for graduate student employees and the apparent lack of support from the University of California in ensuring its provision.

January 20, 2022

Where is the Green Badge for Mental Health?

By Devin Anderson

Devin Anderson critiques the campus' response to an ongoing mental health crisis amidst its students and the true depths of its severity.

December 1, 2021

The Lack of Windows is Not the Only Design Problem With Munger Hall

By Marc Vukcevich

UC Santa Barbara alumnus and former member of UCSB's Design Review Committee, Marc Vukcevich reflects on the main failures of the campus' Munger Hall project.

June 29, 2021

International Students Reflect on a Year of Online Education

By Multiple Authors

International students at UCSB reflect on this year's transition to online learning, highlighting its various benefits and consequences.

June 10, 2021

The Malfeasance of the Modi Government in India

By Julia Everson, Josephine Quock

Julia Everson and Josephine Quock highlight the Indian government's wrongful imprisonment of Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, pointing to a larger overall violation of human rights in India.

April 7, 2021

Why You Should Work on Campus

By Lindsey Terra

Lindsey Terra discusses the UCSB IT internship and why you should want to work on campus.

March 7, 2021

We Need Noncitizen Suffrage

By Eric Heilmann

Eric Heilmann lays out the reasons why non-citizens should be able to vote in this country.

February 4, 2021

There Is Power In A Union

By Taylor Clark, Riley Hull

Taylor Clark and Riley Hull emphasize the power of organized labor and the need for strength in numbers.

February 4, 2021

An Old Rage: The Overdue Need To Encourage Women’s Anger

By Emma Mackie

Emma Mackie gets into female empowerment and the need for women to speak up.

February 3, 2021

We Can’t Hide From Our History

By Jarod Ramirez

Jarod Ramirez discusses the racist aspects of American history and what we need to do better throughout our systems in the future.

February 3, 2021

With Eating Disorders, You Will Never Feel “Sick Enough”

By Andrea Chavez Trejo

Andrea Chavez Trejo discusses the destructiveness of eating disorders.