Issue 31, Volume 90 2009-2010
UCPD Chooses Qualified Chief
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
After an intensive search, UCSB's Police Dept. announced the appointment of Dustin Olson as chief of police yesterday.
UC Budget Generates Protest
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A group of union service workers and supporting students rallied in front of Chancellor Henry T. Yang's office yesterday only to find that the chancellor had already left the building.
Officer Killed by Sports Car
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A memorial service will be held in Santa Barbara tomorrow for Jarrod Martinez, a California Highway Patrol officer who was killed last Thursday in Los Olivos.
Senate Gives Green for Green Initiative
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Have no fear, UCSB's sustainability champion is here.
Finance Board Tables Republicans' Request
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Associated Students Finance Board allocated $4,617 to five student organizations during last night's meeting, leaving $31,467.89 in their Fall budget.
Majority of Californians Support Decriminalization
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
In California, the time is ripe to pick marijuana legalization from the field of taboo political issues. Indeed, this month has seen the development of two significant events in support of the legalization of recreational marijuana use.
Legalization Puts Personal Liberty Over State Control
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
There is no doubt that the War on Drugs has been an incredibly expensive failure, yet neither Democrat nor Republican leaders, from liberal ideologies to freedom loving conservatives, have allowed that obvious fact into their campaign platforms.
Women's Volleyball
UCSB Obliterates Big West Foes
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
While the majority of UC Santa Barbara was tearing it up in Isla Vista this past weekend to celebrate Halloween, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team (8-3 overall, 18-5 Big West) was unleashing its own witchcraft in the Thunderdome, breaking out the broomsticks for a pair of sweeps over Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State - both teams they had lost to on the road earlier this season.
Armchair QB
Armchair QB
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Two days after Halloween, the Phillies have risen from the dead. Matsui still looks more like a zombie.
Cells Found to Be Shells
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Researchers at UCSB have pieced together a paleontological puzzle, providing evidence that a set of 520 million-year-old fossils isn't a group of many ocean critters, but rather a full suit of armor from a strange organism -- possibly filling an evolutionary gap between the first hard-coated creatures.
Weather-Tool Lashes Out
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A tool tirade is in order, but even the veil of anonymity would not be enough protection from the vicious passive aggressive backlash that would surely ensue.