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Tennis great Jimmy Connors was arrested outside the campus arena where UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina were playing a basketball game. The eight-time Grand Slam champion was taken into custody Friday night after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area near the entrance of the Thunderdome following a confrontation, police Sgt. Dan Massey said in a statement.

UCSB Press Release: “OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR  REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION” (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn’t a bigger glob. The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara’s oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest. Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently...

A friend of a friend produced this video, one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to documenting the anti-Americanism of the radical left. Complete with an upside down flag, spitting on an Iraq War veteran and calling him a rapist, it’s sure to make your blood boil. Good gosh, can we please rid our country of this kind of human garbage? You know, the Left would like to turn almost anything now into a hate crime. Do you think we could get the Dems in Congress to include US servicemen and women in their next piece of hate...

On Monday night David Horowitz spoke to a packed house at Embarcadero Hall. It would be a bit of an understatement to say the event got fiery. No doubt, many people came out of the event feeling offended and angry. As the president of the club that hosted the event, there are a few points that I would like to make.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A student government attempt to financially punish the campus newspaper at the University of California, Santa Barbara was vetoed by the student body president. The Associated Students Legislative Council voted 13-5 to withhold money from The Daily Nexus because advertising space was sold to a company considered politically offensive by some council members. But council president Jared Goldschen vetoed his colleagues' decision, explaining two lawyers told him the student council's vote was possibly illegal. Goldschen said he was troubled by freedom of speech issues. Money from student fees - about $17,000 a quarter - augments the...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) While some observers consider offshore oil and gas platforms to be an eyesore on the horizon, new data shows they are performing a critical function for marine life.For the first time, scientists have documented the importance of oil and gas platforms as critical nursery habitat for some species of rockfishes on the California coast. Two articles documenting the importance of the platforms are published in the current issue of Fisheries Bulletin, with lead authors from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Available on-line at http://fishbull.noaa.gov/, Fisheries Bulletin is a quarterly publication of the U.S. government that is...

WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position. The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders. Critics said the reference underscores the Pentagon's failing policies on gays, and adds to a culture that has created uncertainty and insecurity around the treatment of homosexual service members, leading to anti-gay harassment. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeremy M. Martin said the policy document is under review. The Pentagon has a "don't ask,...

(Kyodo) _ Frank Gibney, one of America's leading experts on Japan and Asia-Pacific affairs who founded and edited the Japanese-language Encyclopedia Britannica, died of heart failure on April 9 at his home in Santa Barbara, California, his family said. He was 81. President of the Pacific Basin Institute and a professor of politics at Pomona College, Gibney spent most of his life attempting to bridge the gap between Americans and the countries and cultures of East Asia. Gibney's books and films on Japan, China and other Pacific Basin countries have enjoyed broad readership, from his first book "Five Gentlemen of...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Leftist leaders at the University of California, Santa Barbara have begun distributing a profanity-sprinkled "Disorientation Guide" that calls for a return to the activist spirit of the 1960s. The guide, which came out last week, features interviews with the college's "most politically active" professors, a directory of local liberal organizations and commentaries on subjects including feminism, corporate media, proper "queer" terminology and the value of blogs.It also chronicles the history of UCSB activism, including the infamous 1970 burning of the Bank of America in Isla Vista."A lot of people have passion for certain issues, but never...

My goodness, this is about as bad as it gets on our college campuses. I am listening to Al Rantel on KABC in L.A. right now. Their guests are the editor and publisher of the new conservative newspaper on the UCLA campus --- THE BRUIN STANDARD. They just told a story about a black studies professor at UC Santa Barbara. He actually forces his students to write "GWB is a moron" on their final paper or they do not get credit for it. The guests will be on until 9pm. www.kabc.com All right! I just got through on the phone...

Protesting the inauguration of President George W. Bush, a crowd of between 300 and 400 students marched from the Arbor to Storke Plaza on Thursday, chanting “Not My President” and “No Blood for Oil.” Several students, faculty and staff members spoke in Storke Plaza about the effect of the Bush administration on the cost of college, abortion, gay marriage, the war in Iraq and workers’ rights. -- snip -- About 20 members of the College Republicans followed the crowd from the Arbor chanting “Losers walk” and holding such signs as “Republicans Love Democracy” and “Dubya is for Winner.” During the...

UCSB Offers New Queer Studies Minor By Jason La - Staff Writer Wednesday May 19, 2004 A new minor in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer studies was recently added to the academic pool at UCSB. The university officially sanctioned the LGBTQ minor last week, and students can sign up for it immediately. Overseen by the Women's Studies program, the minor's required classes range from women's studies courses to English classes. Erin Pullin, UCSB alumna and assistant to the director of the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity, was a student organizer who worked to get a LGBTQ...