Dec
5
Painters Still Awaiting Payments
by Valerie McNutt
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Demonstrations continued outside of the Facilities Management building on Monday, due to non-payment of workers on the San Clemente Student Housing Project.
Representatives for the Painters and Allied Trades Union allege that 13 to 15 people have not been paid by their employer, Ryan’s Painters, a UCSB contractor, for anywhere between 3 to 7 weeks of [...]
Dec
5
Reflections of A Former Vegetarian
by Elvia Ramirez
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Once upon a time, there was a 14-year-old girl who just wanted to do what was best for her life. After overcoming a potentially life threatening illness for two years, this little girl wanted to make a sacrifice as a constant reminder of what she had persevered. Seems like a perfect story, right? Well [...]
Dec
5
Students Gather To Stop Sexual Discrimination
by Lynnea Dally
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Students gathered and speakers inspired at the End National Discrimination Act (ENDA) Rally November 27th. Kicking off around noon, the rally called for and end to discrimination based on sexual orientation. This kind of discrimination is illegal in California, but not everywhere. Thirty-three states do not have any legal protection against discrimination based on sexuality, [...]
Dec
5
GH3: Becoming A Rock Legend
by Nick West
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Guitar Hero 3 is truly a battle for your soul. The game’s career mode centers around you being the guitarist for a band that has a meteoric rise to fame thanks to a manager named Lou, whose contracts require much more than a fifty percent cut. Where GH3 makes itself worth your purchase though [...]
Dec
5
What’s New With Nanotech?
by Nathalie Grun
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at UCSB hosted an International Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety Conference on the 16th and 17th of November to discuss health and safety concerns with the laboratories and workplaces engaged in research, development, and commercialization of products employing nanoscale materials. According to its Mission Statement, the UCSB-CNS serves [...]
Dec
5
Class Holds Book Drive For New Orlean’s Children
by Megan Barnes
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Since mid-November, students in the Black Studies 193WW seminar have organized a project to send hundreds of books to children in New Orleans, whose schools were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Professor Clyde Woods, who leads the seminar on pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans, told his class about the national Big Chief and Big Queen Book Project [...]
Dec
5
The Golden Compass Not So ‘Golden’?
by Emilia Dellemonico
December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Golden Compass, a fantasy story written by British writer Phillip Pullman, is causing quite a stir with the debut of its film adaptation on December 7. The film is based on the first book of his trilogy entitled “His Dark Materials,” and has the Christian community in an uproar. Pullman is an overt atheist [...]