Yearly Archives: 2011

Fresh off their first regular-season men’s volleyball victory at Pauley Pavilion since 2002, the UCSB’s Gauchos will try to make it a season sweep over UCLA on their home floor Friday night. The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match starts at 7 p.m. at Rob Gym. more

A movement in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students on Westmont College’s campus is picking up steam after dozens of alumni cosigned a letter that was submitted to the college last week. The letter was prompted by a letter to the editor that was published in the school paper last year. It was written by someone who didn’t go to Westmont, but was in support of Westmont LGBT students living on the school’s campus. more

JM Holliday Associates Architects have been selected by Westmont College to design a new 11,300 SF state-of-the-art renovation of the existing dining commons on the Montecito campus. The new project will be located within the existing Kerr Student Center and involve new food service and dining facility improvements to better serve the student body. The $1.6 million project is slated to begin construction this summer to be ready for occupancy in the fall of 2011. Michael Holliday AIA is the Principal Architect-in-Charge of the project and Michelle Swanitz is the Project Manager. Webb Design is the Food Service Consultant for the project and MATT Construction is the General Contractor. more

Before they learn to walk, kids usually start to wrestle. They squirm, push, and kick, trying to loosen the controlling grasp of big people. For most of them, once they learn to negotiate, wrestling becomes a forgotten part of their lives. For a few of them, it is practice. more

Condoleezza Rice, who served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States from 2005-2009, will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Westmont President’s Breakfast Friday, March 4, from 7-9 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. more