Opinion
Santa Barbara is an expensive town with a high cost of living that everyone is familiar with. So for those us who support ourselves, it requires a lot of work to stay afloat. Luckily, we have the tour...
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Last Thursday I took a break from studying to go grab lunch. The place I wanted to eat charged fifty cents for credit card purchases under $10, and being as cheap as I am, I went to the nearby ATM to ...
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Dateline: Jan. 20, 2009. Washington, D.C. Motor vehicles chafe the streets while eager pilgrims weave in and out of parked cars. The air is solid ice, the frosty chill permeating even the thickest win...
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It’s the end of the month, and the cops can’t seem to scribble out tickets fast enough. I’ve seen them waving down bikers in Isla Vista and perched along the bike paths on campus, re...
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I hope you all busted out your 3-D glasses for those Super Bowl commercials, because they were awesome.
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On the night of Nov. 5, at Harder Stadium I was arrested and hauled to the Santa Barbara County Jail for public intoxication while wearing nothing more than a tuxedo g-string and handcuffs. I started ...
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Sometimes we Gauchos â€" surrounded by pristine beaches, a party scene that could muddle the mind of a rocket scientist, spoiled by warm weather in the middle of winter and surrounded by a ...
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Nobody was put on this earth to be a waiter. People were not born to work, yet we have no choice. A human’s right to be alive is oppressed by money. Without money to buy those items...
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I feel like every day I’m reading something about Steve Pappas: he’s attempting to overturn the results of the 3rd District Supervisor race; he’s subpoenaed the university; he wants ...
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This past Monday, Jan. 26, I was surprised that the presentation on the “Crisis in Gaza” failed to uphold UCSB’s academic integrity and quickly turned into a forum of anti-Israel rhe...
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At this moment - at the culmination of an age of unfettered capitalism and the dawn of an era of government activism - we are begged to consider the constitution of our financial markets. I think we c...
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On Jan. 26, 2009, 50,000 people in the United States were laid off. On Jan. 27, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on UCSB's campus asked for a $6,000 raise per employee ...
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There is something very disturbing happening on this campus. I believe that some of our professors are using their prestigious positions as academics to pass off biased and partisan political position...
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
