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18

A.S. It Is…
by Cici Uy

November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Help A.S. Fight for Your 12 units to Freedom
So hopefully you have heard by now that the Academic Senate of the UC system is trying to increase the minimum unit requirement per quarter to 15 units. Now I don’t know about you, but for me, 12 units is plenty of school work to get done [...]

Nov

14

Online Media Threatens the Press
by Nick West

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

With the advent of the Internet, data became digital and the time it took for information to go from one’s mind to another’s became instantaneous. This new expedited information soon trumped the stories and headlines that appeared in papers and magazines, in terms of the time-lapse between an occurrence and the first reports.
Most people consider [...]

Nov

14

Google Announces Plans for Mobile Devices
by Valerie McNutt

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

On Monday November 5th Google, announced an open source program for cell phones called Android. Android consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications according to Google’s website. Google announced that sometime this week they will be releasing an early version of the software development kit so that users can start to [...]

Nov

14

Blood On The Canvas
by Marie Truong

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Bloodletting, self-immolation, staged suicides, humiliation, and objectification of self – what more could one ask for in an art exhibition? Sex, I suppose, but let’s not lose focus too quickly. Installed in various locations throughout campus, last week’s “I Am the Medium” exhibition featured eight recorded performance pieces that explored the charged social and political [...]

Nov

14

Eat Your Vegetables
by Valerie Urso

November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments

One discarded potential headline for this piece was “Palestinian Refugees: Still Getting Kicked Around”. Just because I decided to go with something a little more bland doesn’t make it any less true, but I wanted to write something that wasn’t the same old story people keep hearing until it has no meaning. I don’t [...]

Nov

14

The Conservative Movement Starts Here
by Darwin Bondgraham

November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

It’s common knowledge that Santa Barbara is home to a huge non-profit industry. In fact, the county has more of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs) per capita than any other, and Santa Barbara NGOs have the highest assets per capita in the US.The region’s non-profits are incredibly rich and powerful, not just within our backyard, but [...]

Nov

14

The Poster Wins By Dexterity
by Ben Tolksdorf

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I anxiously entered my house lounge in anticipation of a gathering, I supposed, was meant to celebrate perhaps one of the most important artists in recent history. I soon noticed by the literature on the table that this was a drug and alcohol abuse presentation, and that this was hardly the event I had been [...]

Nov

14

What’s Happening to The Earth?
by Terrenz Vong

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“The Earth is warming, the ice sheets are melting, lakes are evaporating. The question is, why? Are human beings responsible? Even if we are, is it a crisis or just hype?” These are among the questions addressed in Planet in Peril, a CNN worldwide investigation. The title of this two-part special says it all; Earth [...]

Nov

14

Dukakis Shines In Rose
by Tracy Bueno

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Olympia Dukakis shined on Wednesday evening as she performed her one-woman show Rose at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. An established actress with countless recognitions including an Oscar and Golden Globe, Dukakis made her mark on stage from start to finish.
In the play, written by Martin Sherman and previously shown at the West End and Broadway, [...]

Nov

14

Students Join Hundreds at ‘No Borders Camp’
by Sophia Gore Brown

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

From November 7-11, a ‘No Borders Camp’ on the heavily militarized U.S. Mexican border at Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico, convened in solidarity with actions around the world coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 10, 1989.
Over the course of four days, more than 500 attendees, including a number of UCSB students, [...]

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