UCSB Bites – August 2007 – Denial Rules 

UCSB Non-Judgmental Bites 

Looks like we have offended the party-till-we-puke crowd again.  We are getting lots of hate emails right after closing time.  

Why is it we have to keep arguing with people who continue to contend that UCSB is a safe place.  How about checking out this video the next time you feel like explaining how safe it is at UCSB. 

UCSB Judgmental Bites

Wow, here is loyal member of the "party school" apparatchik at UCSB.   A stabbing victim (Ozhekh) narrowly escapes death  –  but he wants everyone to know not to blame the party scene at UCSB/IV.   Quote from the Nexus: "Ozhekh said he hopes the incident does not give UCSB and I.V. a bad reputation."  Well, Mr. Ozhekh, the reason your drunken assailant came to IV was because of the "party scene" and the fact that the town is considered "wide open" when it comes to drugs, booze, sex, and violence.  He came to "rip it up" because that is what is promoted at UCSB.  Party on, Ozhekh.     

Another free speech issue is about to boil over at UCSB:   About camping (as part of a protest) on campus, UCSB spokesperson Bowman said. “They are subjected to being the victims of all kinds of crimes [and] injury.”   Say what?  I thought UCSB was a safe place.  For the purpose of clarification, are the transients being assaulted by UCSB students, or is it the UCSB students who are being assaulted by the transients?  Or, perhaps UCSB has merely had enough of the protestors messing up the schools carefully crafted fairytale image – can you image how upset Buffy's parents would be if they had to see all that riffraff during their campus visit.  

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Stupid quote of the month in the Nexus, "Recent UCSB graduate Jeronimo Saldana, an organizer and participant in both of the tent cities this past year, said he was excited when he heard the news of the ban. 'I think it’s great,' Saldana said. “I love it. The whole point of a tent city is civil disobedience [and] the fact that they were letting us do it didn’t give us the opposition we wanted.'  However, second-year history major Shauna Woods said she believed the causes promoted by the campouts felt removed from the concerns of average students. 'I never really understood tent cities,' Woods said. 'I’d rather celebrate David Hasselhoff.'"  Let's hope that UCSB's ban on tent protesters and these two mental giants' comments don't represent the majority of intellectual discourse at UCSB.  

Final thought: swearing off "solid food" is not much of a protest around here, I know lots of people who don't mix their booze with food. 

Respectfully submitted,

Banjo Reams

Editor's comment:  Did Banjo actually use the term "Say What?"