Outside Opinions

August 28, 2013

Party On, Gauchos! (No, Seriously…Party On)

By Charlotte Rushforth

Fourth-year communications major Charlotte Rushforth calls on the Princeton Review to reconsider its placement of UCSB on the list of top party schools.

May 31, 2013

Letter to the Editor: The Cocaine Problem

By Janet Ornelas

I graduated in 2011 from this wonderful school of ours with four years’ worth of great memories and friends. I can honestly say that my time at UCSB was the happiest four years of my life. About a month after graduatio...

May 31, 2013

Letter to the Editor: Response to 5/29/13 Wednesday Hump

By Dylan D.

As a man in Isla Vista, I ask “what is wrong with a little experience?” Am I the only one turned off by virgins? Am I the only one who wants satisfaction without having to give a seminar on oral pleasure? While I thi...

May 28, 2013

Luhrmann’s Gatsby: Give It a Chance, Old Sport

By Nika Burnett

I’m not sure if one can be addicted to literature, or to the abstract theories and opinions of said works, but if so, I’m in need of a support group and a 12-step plan. I could give you a full rundown of Caryl Church...

May 24, 2013

Alum Gets Fired Up Over IV Couch Burnings

By Britta Gustafson

Every time I walk down Sueno, no matter what I was thinking about before, I start viciously fantasizing about yelling at kids to get off my lawn … I mean streets. You might not have noticed this, but look down next tim...

May 21, 2013

A Letter from End Fake Clinics

By End Fake Clinics

We are End Fake Clinics. We are feminists. We are queer. We are students. We are for reproductive justice. The reproductive justice approach to activism historically arose from the perspectives of women of color as a way...

May 10, 2013

Concerned Alum Speaks Out Against SB’s Gang Induction

By Brenda Maldonado

LTE- Gang Injunction   In 2011 Police Chief Sanchez, along with Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office, filed a civil legal action against 30 Santa Barbara residents who are allegedly members of the Santa...

May 10, 2013

UC Spokesperson Challenges Claims Against “Digital Education”

By Shelly Meron

Patrick Sheehan’s May 3 Op-Ed, “From the Makers of Massive Budget Cuts: A Digital Education,” is based on the incorrect assumption that the University of California Board of Regents and administration are pursuing ...

May 7, 2013

Gaucho de Mayo: Beyond Shots and Sombreros

By Multiple Authors

I know Cinco de Mayo is approaching when sombreros are being sold on campus, when supermarkets begin to dress their aisles in sarapes and when themed parties begin to overflow the streets of Isla Vista. On the surface, t...

May 3, 2013

From the Makers of Massive Budget Cuts: A Digital Education

By Patrick Sheehan

From the makers of massive budget cuts: a digital education   Over the last four years, the top managers of the UC system — the governor and the UC Regents — have launched an accelerating effort to make online c...

April 26, 2013

Student and Mother Calls for Affordable Childcare at UCSB

By Zhike Liu

I am a master’s degree student at UCSB. I have a 2-year-old son who is in the White Door of the Orfalea Family Children’s Center. Recently, I heard that the university is going to cancel the daycare fee for stude...

April 26, 2013

Left Said Tackles Divestment

By Michael Dean

Some will remember the commotion a few weeks back surrounding a resolution proposed to our student government that would have the university divest from American companies who profit from internationally recognized human...

April 25, 2013

Voices on Voting: Student Backs TBL, Independent Media

By Michael Kenney

We as students face a continuing uphill battle to protect our rights to information even though we attend a public institution. Whether it be information about increasing student fees, cuts to classes, cuts to administra...

April 25, 2013

A.S. Officers Band Together, Back Foronda as President

By Multiple Authors

During every election cycle at UCSB, students are inundated with an immense amount of information. While standing in support of healthy dialogue as a learning process, we as the 2012-13 A.S. Executive Officers have decid...

April 25, 2013

WGSE, Striving for “More Than ‘Adequacy’”

By Multiple Authors

We, A.S. Womyn’s Commission, A.S. Queer Commission, End Fake Clinics, Take Back the Night, Voices for Planned Parenthood and The Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, are extremely frustrated and disappointed wi...

April 11, 2013

Bitcoin: All That Glitters Isn’t Always Gold

By Kevin De Bree

On Monday, I accidentally showed up around thirty minutes early to my 12:30 p.m. history class. The time was just short enough to force me to stay in Phelps Hall, but not long enough to do anything. So I decided to do th...