Yum yum! Looks tasty!
According to reliable stereotypes, scientists are supposed to be smart. It is surprising, then, that UCSB’s associate professor of Biology Gretchen Hofman refers to the creepy fetus-like snail pictured above as “the Potato Chip of the Ocean”. I’m unsure what sort of chips Hofman favors, but if I saw something that looked l

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It may look like these girls are smiling helpfully, but they're actually laughing at you
If you've been in the UCSB bookstore lately, possibly to buy your UCSB sweatshirt, you may have overheard one or more of these gems:

"Wait, the books are downstairs?

"We have a downstairs?"

(on cell phone) "I saw you changed our facebook status to 'in a

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Many of you will remember when we last reported on hero Jerry Beaver, the local real-estate mogul and adorable rodent who fought a terrifying environmental awareness art project called Light Blue Line, which would have involved a temporary light blue line painted down the city’s streets to show the effects of global warming. Heroism apparently d

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I, the Former Goal Post of UCSB, would like to share a video of hilarious shenanigans involving me right after UCSB won the NCAA soccer championship against UCLA last winter.

Yes, those kids are singing “Olé, olé, olé, olé… Gauchos, Gauchos”. Yes, they stole me from the soccer field and carried me on high in glory to the beach, where I later e

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Finally, an online video that shows UCSB for what it really is: a magical land of surfing and hotness.

You may think that the song, “Sea Legs” by the Shins, was added to the video to provide a nice soundtrack, but you’d be wrong. That song just naturally plays whenever we UCSB kids go to the beach, and it’s nice to see a film that captures thi

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The Arlington Theater, photographed in black in white to denote true artsiness
Grab your cameras and start acting pretentious, because Variety has included our very own Santa Barbara International Film Festival on its list of “50 Unmissible Film Festivals”. Apparently SBIFF is actually cool enough to merit inclusion on the international list, j

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Let freedom ring!
Dear Women of UCSB,

Greetings from your favorite symbol of Americana: the Liberty Bell! I probably don't need to remind you that I'm quite famous for my rather large crack. I’m not telling you this in order to toot my own horn (or ring my own bell, as it were), but word has reached me all the way in Philadelphia that you, the

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See? He obviously likes the beach!
Barack Obama spoke at what his website calls “A Grassroots Rally in Santa Barbara” on Saturday, but apparently UCSB isn’t considered “grass” nor “roots”. That’s right, Obama opted to address the young people from Santa Barbara City College instead of our beloved UC. Sure, SBCC is back in session while UCSB wo

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