The Associated Students Human Rights Board is organizing 24 events highlighting social justice issues today through Saturday as part of Human Rights Week, culminating with a performance from rapper Immortal Technique at 8 p.m. at Casa de la Raza. The series kicks off today at 5 p.m. with a screening of the documentary “Road to [...]
Senior guard Orlando Johnson needs just three points to become UCSB’s all-time leading scorer as the third-place men’s basketball team is set to host Cal Poly in a nationally-televised Saturday night matchup. UCSB (15-9 overall, 9-4 Big West) is coming off a lopsided loss at Long Beach (20-7, 13-0) on Wednesday night. Cal Poly (15-13, [...]
The UCSB baseball team will pack up the pine tar for a three-game road series against San Jose State this weekend. After dropping three of four games in a seven-error showing against No. 23 Oregon State last weekend, the Gauchos will look to reverse their fielding woes in what will be the first road series [...]
Many of us are familiar with the Mexican bingo-style game Lotería, whether we played it at home with our families, at day-care with our childhood friends, or with classmates to learn basic Spanish vocabulary. Recently, fourth-year art major Alyssa Guerra Brown took the brightly colored illustrations that inspire so many fond childhood memories and gave [...]
From the track to the field to the ice, former UCSB sprinter and current USA rookie bobsled pilot Nick Cunningham had always known that he would one day represent his country at the Olympic Games, but he never envisioned the arduous path he would take to get where he is today. Following a record-breaking sprinting [...]
UC Police officers detained 18 Occupy Cal demonstrators at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library on Friday after the group disregarded campus administrators’ warnings to vacate the encampment or face legal repercussions. Though all protesters dispersed peacefully and none were cited or arrested, 10 of the seized tents remain in police custody, and eleven demonstrators have been [...]
The UCSB surf team will head into the State Championships riding a first place team victory in the team’s latest event at the Huntington Beach Pier. Though now on top, the Gauchos have seen their share of ups and downs throughout this season. Santa Barbara began the year by winning just the Long Board Competition [...]
UCSB alumnus Kyle Rutkin is a 27 year-old author from San Francisco who has written four books as well as a rap parody, “Pussywhipped,” which asserts that “of course Bride Wars is a motherfucking classic!” Not surprisingly, Rutkin thrived in Isla Vista from 2003 to 2007 and describes his third work, This is Your Heart [...]
The Goleta City Council met with Target representatives last month to discuss the design proposal for a two-story, 163,800 square foot storefront on the corner of Hollister Avenue and Los Carneros Way. The Goleta City Council approved the public planning process for the local branch of the national chain on Nov. 15. The parties met [...]
Coming off an 85-62 dismantling of UC Irvine on the road Wednesday night, the UCSB men’s basketball team will travel to Utah State on Saturday night to take on the Aggies in a nationally televised ESPNU Bracketbuster game. “[Wednesday] night was one of the best games we played from start to finish,” Head Coach Bob [...]
The first day of discussion on the emerging history of the Chicano Movement during the 1960s and ‘70s will take place today in the “Chicano Power!” conference hosted by the department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Speakers from several universities nationwide will attend the event, including lecturers from institutions such as Duke University, Michigan State [...]
Chancellor Henry T. Yang personally donated $50,000 to cover shortfalls in the campus’ Doctoral Student Travel Grants budget through the summer of 2013. The scholarships are granted on a first-come, first-serve basis for doctoral and masters students of candidacy status to establish themselves in their field and develop important contacts while presenting their research abroad. [...]
His name is Tucker Max, and he is an asshole. The man whose stories are too terrible for your mother’s eyes, yet too hilarious for her not to love, has recently published his third and final book in a trilogy of tales that have caused protests, lawsuits and spawned a new generation of literature [...]
On Friday, a federal district court in San Francisco found UC Berkeley Campus Police Officer Brendan Tinney not guilty of violating a student’s civil rights during a Nov. 20, 2009 protest. Berkeley graduate student Zhivka Valiavicharska charged Tinney with the use of excessive force when baton strikes broke her pinky. Valiavicharska had placed her hand [...]
Local Veterans for Peace members placed 1,500 black and white crosses in the sand near Stearns Wharf last week in memoriam for those who lost their lives in recent U.S. wars. Twice each month, the activist group rebuilds the Arlington West Memorial, a depoliticized tribute to honor America’s casualties of overseas combat. This month, the [...]