Sports
There is no more room for error. This is a must win series. These are the things that the young UCSB softball team (29-26, 11-4) will be hearing for the rest of the week until it faces Long Beach Stat...
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Location. Location. Location. As students here in sun-soaked Santa Barbara, we swear by this axiom. As the newly crowned go-to guy in the UCSB bullpen, so does Gaucho relief pitcher Loren Fraser.
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It will be a relaxed weekend for the UCSB track and field team. While most of the team rests for the upcoming Big West Championships, a select few will compete in the Oxy Invitational at Occidental Co...
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The best way to describe his game is comprehensive. From the first whistle to the last, from one goal line to the other, and from the beginning of his career to its end, Memo Arzate covered all the gr...
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Megan Blackshire is a team player. She may have led the UCSB women's volleyball team's offense as a middle blocker, but the sophomore Capistrano Beach, Calif., native has nothing but the team on her m...
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It's a bad time to be in the Big West. Unless of course, you are Santa Barbara. After ripping off its unparalleled eighth consecutive Big West title coupled with its first ever Sweet 16 appearance, th...
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Head Coach Kristy Schroeder took the UCSB softball team to its first ever NCAA postseason appearance in only her third year as head coach, earning her Coach of the Year honors.
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In the classroom, it's annoying when a freshman tries to look like a Ph.D. candidate by asking pretentious questions and using vocabulary from a word-of-the-day calendar.
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Members of the UCSB track and field team continue to blow away the competition and exceed all expectations. Santa Barbara will be sending six Gauchos to the NCAA National Championships after competing...
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Men's volleyball Head Coach Ken Preston has never known the luxury of having too much time on his hands. Neither has the Gaucho baseball team's Head Coach Bob Brontsema.
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Although it went undefeated in the Ultimate Players Association (UPA) sectional and regional tournaments, the UCSB Black Tide men's ultimate Frisbee team will not be making the trip to the Ultimate Co...
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This year the cross country and track and field programs will have one of their top runners graduate - senior distance runner Chris White. "Every year you have someone graduate that you know you canno...
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You've just been offered a large amount of money to walk away from college and do what you've dreamed of doing since you were hitting off a tee. Take the money and run! No-brainer, right?
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Mexico is right there. It doesn't take any planning, all you need is a car, some cash for gas and time. The further south you can go, the warmer the water, the thinner the crowds and the cheaper the b...
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“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
