TAs Reach Agreement With UC
The strike by teaching assistants, tutors and other academic student employees that would have started today was avoided when the University and the labor union reached a tentative contract agreement late Tuesday night.
On Your Mark, Get Set, Shoot!
Sure, there are plenty of film festivals and filmmaking competitions taking place all over the country in any given week. But, how many of those festivals willingly give directorial reign to 10 random students ranging from their mid-teens to twenties and ask them to shoot 10 minutes of film in 10 days?
Wal-Martyred
Did you hear about the lady who got trampled at Wal-mart by maniacs in pursuit of DVD players on sale for $30?
Cook Serves Up Win
The UCSB men’s basketball team cooked Pepperdine 65-62 on a sizzling three-point game-winning dagger by junior forward Casey Cook. The Gauchos, rallying from four down with 1:33 to play, won their season opener on Wednesday evening in the Thunderdome to improve their season record to 2-2.
Twas the Day Before Finals
It would make a great game show. Your school’s teaching assistants plan to strike, but you have to guess why. “Is it Eskimo Pies? Are you planning to strike because you want more Eskimo Pies?” Only the strike didn’t happen. Apparently, a last-minute deal between the University of California and the UC teaching assistants’ union will keep those TAs around during finals week, answering students’ questions and grading exams, just like they always do.
IVFP Gets Money to Enforce Alcohol Laws
For those who are thinking about getting a fake I.D. over break, you might want to think twice. The Isla Vista Foot Patrol recently received a $50,000 grant from the regional Alcohol Beverage Control board to strengthen its enforcement of alcohol laws.
Tipping Sorrow’s Scales
In the closing scenes of “21 Grams,” one of the main characters lies in a hospital bed and recalls the urban legend that the 21 grams a human body supposedly loses at the moment of death is the loss of the soul.
Gauchos Go Sour in Sweet 16
In a season resembling a jagged heart rate monitor, it was only appropriate the 2003 UCSB men’s soccer team’s inaugural Sweet 16 game against St. John’s University was filled with emotional peaks and valleys.
Drugstore Cowboy: Your Mind on My Safety, Hand in My Underwear
“Sir, you’ve been selected by the airline,” the man at the security gate of the Santa Barbara Airport says to me, quickly scratching an “X” in red marker on my ticket. Did I win something? Maybe I’m getting an empty first-class seat!
I.V. Burglars Loot Residences Over Holiday Weekend
Twelve reported residential burglaries over Thanksgiving weekend cost Isla Vista residents just over $25,000 in stolen property, according to the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, but residents can sign up to have their house looked after by police over the upcoming winter break.