Sports
Good things come in small, smiling packages. At 5'2", junior Kylie McCuen may have an unlikely build for a sprinter, but she has been breaking records since the sixth grade. At her elementary school ...
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Dear dude with curly blond hair who rides a white longboard with blue rails - you know who you are, I understand that I'm a girl in a predominantly male sport and, admittedly, not even one of the bett...
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Contrary to popular belief, a UCSB men's soccer team did, in fact, win a national championship last winter. Before accusing me of hitting ye old crack pipe one too many times, hear me out on this one....
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It happens every spring here at UCSB. The sun comes out, the weather becomes perfect and the UCSB men's lacrosse team takes a trip to the national championships.
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Winning the Western Women's Lacrosse League (WWLL) Championship was a warm-up; now the UCSB women's lacrosse team wants a national championship. Santa Barbara (16-1) enters this weekend's U.S. Lacross...
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Kevin Barger didn't mind that his opponent had him by 3 inches and 47 pounds. In fact, he embraced the disadvantage. In the main event at Pi Kappa Alpha's Fight Night, Barger wore down challenger Nick...
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Even with one of the best pitching staffs in the country, #10 Long Beach baseball couldn't stop the Gauchos from swinging for the fences this weekend at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
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UCSB baseball fans got an unexpected surprise this weekend, and it wasn't just the Gauchos' 2-1 series win over #10 Long Beach. Senior shortstop Chris Malec returned to the team Friday, 22 days after ...
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For some members of UCSB track and field, Saturday was the last chance to qualify for next week's Big West Conference Championships. Some personal-best times were recorded and some long throwing dista...
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Long Beach State showed the UCSB softball team how a conference championship is won this weekend in sweeping fashion. The #24-ranked 49ers (36-14 overall, 16-2 in the Big West) claimed the outright ti...
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A seven-game losing streak can be quite a pickle, and when the UCSB baseball team hosts #11 Long Beach this weekend in a three-game series, the Gauchos will have their gloves full trying to fend off t...
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It's a Big West softball battle to the death for UCSB and Long Beach. The Beach, which took the conference title last year, sits atop Big West rankings and climbed to #24 in the National Fastpitch Coa...
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The UCSB track and field team has split its roster three times this season to send competitors to separate meets in separate cities. This Saturday it will do it for the second weekend in a row while i...
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If the New York Yankees of men's college soccer thought that UCSB was going to pull a Florida Marlins and let its 2004 national finalist team fall by the wayside, then the Hoosiers, Terrapins and Blue...
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There's always a price to play, but sometimes that's not always so bad. Despite limited financial assistance from the university, the UCSB Sports Club Program, a division of UCSB Recreational Sports, ...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
