The 1108 (Fall 2016)

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1108 Articles from Linguistics 3A

Where Do You Eat?

We reviewed UCSB’s dining halls and have some advice.

A Fashion Statement: Read this before packing

The NBA at UCSB Up close and personal

California Dreamin’ Pick the car best suited for your needs A Walking Tour of One of America’s Most Beautiful Campuses

An Inside Look at UCSB’s Dorms fall 2016

In This Issue The King of the Dining Halls [1] Chinese food in Santa Barbara [2] UCSB: The NBA’s Backyard [3] Walking Through “Wonderland” [4] Campus Fashion Guide [5] Biking 101 [6] Santa Catalina Dorms Daily Life [7] Car Buying for Your Needs [8] UCSB’s Online Gaming Community [9]

Dining Fit For A King

By Lu Tang and Xinyi Wu

There are four dining halls in our campus, which are Carrillo, De La Guerra, Ortega and Portola. All of them have their own characteristics and advantages. Now we will introduce each of them for you.

Entering Carrillo Dining Commons is a multi-sensory experience. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday-Friday, and brunch and dinner Saturday and Sunday, which people can enjoy some delicious food every day they want.

For eating environment, customers can choose inside or outside of the hall to appreciate mountain, ocean, and pool views. For food selections, Carrillo has various food including Americana Grill, made to order, deli, the oven, hot cuisine, the town grill, fresh greens, bakery and frozen yogurt.

De la Guerra Dining Commons prepares seasonal menu items “just in time” to ensure food is always fresh. Customers can enjoy their lunch and dinner in a beautiful, contemporary dining facility while gazing at the UCSB lagoon and the Pacific Ocean. Staying up late? Getting up late?

No problem! DLG is open from 9pm-12:30am at night and 7:15am-10am in the morning.

Ortega is the most convenient dining hall which is close to UCEN in the campus. For customers, the various salad and some unique style food from all around the world are the most special characteristics for Ortega.

Portola looks out over an Olympic-size pool and palm trees, creating the impression of eating at a resort. Portola is known for its festive holiday atmosphere, just like Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Thanksgiving Day. Although Portola is little far from the main campus, if you want to eat at it and also need to take it to class, you can pick up a sack meal which other three dining halls cannot.

Results In order to choose “The King”, we did a survey with 30 UCSB students in the library randomly. We asked them some same questions.

First, “Where are you from?” Second “Which dining halls do you like best?” Third, “Why you like that dining hall?” As a coincidence, the students who we chose can be divided into two groups, 15 Asian people and 15 Californians, and the answer also consistent. For Asians, among four dining halls, 5 people like Carrillo best, 4 people like DLG best, and the other 6 Asians like Ortega as favorite.

For Californians, 5 people like Carrillo and 10 people like DLG best. For both Asians and Californians, the people who choose DLG as king since the food in DLG are various in different categories. Both of them like pasta in DLG as the best cuisine, and Californian like to eat Mexican food like Taco in DLG. For both Asians and Californians, the people who choose Carrillo as king because of the clean environment and neat settings. The Californians like different kinds of stir-fry rice and Asians like Asian food, which is almost authentic. Only some Asians choose Ortega as king, since the sushi is only in Ortega, which is very delicious. Because there is less categories of cuisines in Ortega than DLG, and Californians pay less interest in Sushi, there are no Californians choose Ortega as king. In survey, there are no one choose Portola, the reason that it is too far from school and the food there are similar to the food in DLG, Ortega and Carrillo. In this case, people do not prefer to take bus to go to Portola to eat meals. All in all, the king of dining hall is “De la Guerra”!!!

CHINESE

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By Hany� Guo & Chunyao Yao

There are lots of Chinese restaurants throughout Santa Barbara such as: Stone Age, China Pavilion, Tang Dynasty and Wok On the Wild Side. My favorite Chinese restaurant in Santa Barbara is Wok On the Wild Side, which located in Isla Vista.

Due to the location and the price of Wok On the Wild Side, I think UCSB students will like to go to Wok On the Wild Side!

The restaurant is located just a few blocks away from student resource center, so it’s convenient for UCSB students to go for dinning. And the price of the restaurant is really affordable; By paying $30, you can get one dish, one soup, and rice. Moreover, the food is really fantastic and authentic there. The taste of their food is very similar to restaurant in China. We recommend the sweet pork and Mongolian beef. It also provides a traditional Chinese breakfast such as soya milk, garage original pancakes with fried dough sticks, leek turnovers and tea eggs and beverages come from China such as JDB (Jia Duo Bao), soybean milk and white gourd tea.

A cool note is that all employees there are Chinese and the owners of the restaurant are parents of a Chinese international student at UCSB. They have been running this restaurant for 3 years and all the ingredients come fresh from Los Angeles everyday. According to one employee, “this restaurant is our family restaurant, and all employees are our family members, we came from Beijing 7 years ago, and before that we had a restaurant also in Beijing. My nephew is a UCSB student. The reason we come here is that we want to bring real Chinese food to all Chinese students here and we are happy to see that they are satisfied with our food and restaurant.”

Most customers there are Chinese students but there are still some foreigners who really like Chinese food. When we visited, one customer commented, “I come here really often because it is really close to my dorm, the food is really good here, and the price is really cheap compared with other Chinese restaurants in Santa Barbara.”

Their business hours are from 11 am to 10 pm every day, plus they offer deliver service. The average serving time is between 15 to 25 minutes and rice is free to eat.

UCSB: The Backyard of the NBA

By Jiayuan Guo and Shuang Li

On September 27th, Los Angeles Lakers held media day in our school, UCSB, and then Lakers had a 6-days training in Robertson gym in UCSB. The training camp of Los Angeles Lakers started on September 28th and ended on October 2nd. All of players in Lakers had to attend the trading camp, so a lot of students went to the gym and saw their favorite players, such as D’Angelo Russell, Nick Young and Yi Jianlian. All of them were excited and happy to see their favorite players.

The last time the Lakers held a training camp at UCSB was 1999. However, a lot of teams have held training camp in UCSB during the past years, such as Memphis Grizzles and Cleveland Cavaliers. Actually, at first, the Lakers wanted to hold training camp in EI Segundo, but managers of Lakers changed their minds in the end, because UCSB has a better environment, professional facilitates and peaceful surroundings.

Because of these training camps, UCSB is fostering a rich and lasting basketball atmosphere. It is always crowed in the recreation center and many people enjoy playing basketball. Because of this atmosphere, UCSB has produced a lot of NBA basketball players, such as Orlando Johnson and Alan Williams, who is on the Phoenix Suns now.

The training camp benefits a lot to Los Angeles Lakers so that they have achieved a huge progression in this season. Our students enthusiastically hope that more NBA teams can train in our school and our school can produce more eminent players to NBA due to excellent basketball ambiance.

By Yilong Zeng & Annan Zhang

UCSB Campus by Y. Zeng The University of California, Santa Barbara is a university that possesses diverse landscapes, and it is a home to plants from all around the world. Some species of trees are unique to campus and can’t be found anywhere else in Santa Barbara Country. There is a loop which takes you about half an hour to walk through some of the rare species of trees on campus. It begins at Campbell Hall and ends at Visitor Center. Some great horticulture and architecture can be found while you are walking along this route. My friend, Annan and I decided to walk through this “wonderland.”

We started at Campbell Hall. Surprisingly, we didn't feel bored while walking since we discovered various kinds of plants around us. There are Phoenix Reclinatas located between Cheadle Hall and Campbell Hall. Most of them are from native southern Africa. Brown fiber covers these stems, and the shapes of them tend to curve away from the center of the clump. Because these stems with leaves are large and the trunks are stiffness, the old indigenous people used them for building material, and they used the leaves for the roofs of houses as well.

As we walked towards the Campus Green, we discovered some large Cupressaceae specimen trees called “Taxodium Mucronatum” between Buchanan Hall and El Centro. It is native to Southern Mexico and is also known as the national tree of Mexico. The shape of the trees is like a giant umbrella, and its leaves are spirally grown and twist at the base. You can also find them in other places around campus. People planted them on both sides of a street.

After we did some research on Taxmdium Mucronatum, its resistance to insect damage, decay as well as its easy adaption to different kinds of sun and soil conditions, are the reasons why they are popular.

By following the route, we arrived at the southwest of Davidson Library; we found some Cork Oak trees which are called Quercus suber, which originally are from the western Mediterranean region of southern Europe and North Africa. This species’ bark caught my attention because I had seen a report which shows that it takes about eight years for a Quercus suber to regenerate enough bark for another harvest of cork. These trees’ fruits are considered to be a useful insecticide.

It was a pity that due to time, we didn’t finish the route. But the places with some rare specimens of trees and plants we walked through had left us many good memories. I hope we can restart the route and go through completely anther day.

Something You Might not know…

The Senegal Date Palm is also known as “Phoenix reclinata.” Furthermore, the word “Phoenix” is borrowed from the Greek mythology, and it is the same word as “Phoenix reclinata.”

When the early Christians accidentally found that the gospel book mentioned "date palm branch" and "King of Israel," they related the Date Palm to the rebirth of the Phoenix, Phoenicia (Israel Canaan land), and the arrival of the Messiah together.

Y. Zeng

Coming to UCSB, everyone talks about how to dress well and be in fashion. If you will be a freshman at UCSB, this article is for you!

Watch out and find some useful advice for what to bring.

By Zhenhong Xia Yue Zeng

SUMMER LOOK: Because of the high temperature, girls often wear vests and shorts. Girls also wear sunglasses to withstand strong sunshine. A pair of cute sneakers is convenient for a girl to run for classes at such a large campus.

Tips: vests, shorts, sunglasses, sneakers Boys also wear t-shirts and shorts because of hot summers at UCSB. A pair of flip flops may be a good choice for a boy who loves to swim. Of course, a pair of sunglasses is necessary for handsome boys to be in fashion during summer time.

Tips: T-shirts, shorts, slippers, sunglasses

WINTER: All Gauchos in winter like to wear hoodies and sweaters which match almost all bottoms like shorts and jeans.

Sunglasses are the necessary products to finish your fashion, you have to wear a pair no matter in summer or winter.

Tips: vests, shorts, sunglasses, sneakers

SUMMER NEVER ENDS AT UCSB

Sneakers are the other essential good to match your style in winter.

Tips: UCSB has hotter days and colder nights.

Leave your down coats at home.

BIKES BIKES

3 Tips You Have to Know About Biking @ UCSB Lying on the west coast of the pacific, UCSB owns one of the most charming natural environments of all American universities. Due to UCSB’s large campus, bikes are vital for UCSB students, especially for students who need to rush to their next class located on the other side of the campus.

Although riding a bike is a piece of cake, there are 3 tips that you’d better to follow before you gear up and start your career as a “professional cycler” here.

By Xiaoling Pang & Zhe Chen

REGISTRATION Register your bike immediately after you purchasing your bike. Unlike high schools, UCSB has an amazing regulatory team called the Community Service Organization or more commonly known as “CSO”.

Conveniently, they “handle” all issues dealing with bikes, including registering them. After registering your bike at CSO, they become your personal pit crew. When you forget your key, they will help you unlock your bike. When your bike is stolen, they will help you find it. Although there’s possibility that they won’t find your bike, registration costs 5 dollars but is definitely worth it because of their services.

RULES: Follow them There are so many signs warning that students shouldn’t ride bikes on sidewalks otherwise they will be fined in minimum of 194 dollars by the university. In addition, you should never take your hands off the handlebars focusing on your cell phone or textbook because it is easy to crash into pedestrians and riders. Following the rules is not only better for your own benefit but also for others and your own safety.

Remember to follow the rules!!!

PARKING Park your bike in official parking lot. Commonly, because of the heavy traffic in campus, it is hard to find a place to park your bike, but that never means you should park your bike wherever you want.

First, parking in parking lot can effectively decrease the possibilities of bikes being stolen. Secondly, UCSB doesn’t allow students to park bikes besides trees, and if you do so you will be fined. Here is one more hint: parking your bike besides bikes that seem the most expensive, because they are more likely being stolen.

Santa Catalina Dorms: The Adventures of Yue

By Fengsheng Zhang & Yue Yu

I open my eyes and see the white walls and ceiling. I know that a new school day is beginning. Getting out of bed, I walk to washstand in my room, which is shared by two people. So, it is convenient for us living. Four people share one bathroom that is clean and roomy. Every week we have room services and some staff members of the dorm will empty the trash can clean everything in the chamber. Therefore, my room is tidy and comfortable. I brush my teeth, wash face and put on clothes. I start to play computer games on my PC in my room because it is big enough for me to put a desktop near my desk. It’s so big that each double room has two twins sized beds, two desks, and two closets. A couple of hours later, I begin to prepare for my favorite linguistic class. I pick up my books from my drawer and grab some pencils. Get my jacket from my closet; I leave my dorm. There are two elevators in the building, but I go down the stairs because I live on the third floor. It is the fastest way for me. Students, who live in Santa Catalina Hall chose to go to school by skateboard, bike, and bus. I prefer to take the bus because this is the most comfortable way to get to campus.

And the bus can also get me to the Marketplace, which has some stores and good restaurants. I take the bus to North Hall and start my lovely linguistic class.

Santa Catalina Dining Commons called “Portola” and is one of my favorite places. After a long day of courses, I return to my dorm and eat dinner here. Portola provides fresh foods every day, which means I don't need to worry about the safety of food. Because most of the staff are students in Portola, they will try their best to give each customer the best service. Besides fresh foods, I can enjoy a large variety of menu options from Monday to Sunday.

Even though I’m an Asian, I always can eat Asian food here such as orange chicken, noodles, rice and so on. Deserts, salad, beverages, and fruits are supplied every day. These are served to satisfy every student. Eating breakfast at Portola is my happiest thing every day.

Because there are coffee machine and waffle machine, I can do breakfast by myself, and I am proud when I eat my breakfast.

The recreation room is another interesting place in my dorms.

It has ping pong tables, a foosball table, air hockey tables, television, and vending machines. Every weekend I come here to play with my friends. There is a fitness room provided for each resident to exercise. I always use a treadmill so that I don't need to go out to run.

Because of high temperatures in Santa Barbara, I always swim at the swimming pool here and enjoy the sunshine. Moreover, playing ping pong with friends is another exciting activity. No matter if it is the dining commons or the recreation room; I have the most fun at Santa Catalina.

A Thousand Ways

By Zhenchao Hu & Zhuoqi Niu

Types of Cars

If you would like to use a car for daily driving and commuting to school and local groceries, then a four-door sedan would be good; If you like hiking, skiing, surfing and other sports, then an SUV or Jeep would definitely satisfy you; If you just drive for pleasure and do not care about bumpers in Isla Vista or school, many fancy cars are waiting for you.

One more thing, if you like muscle cars, like Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers, then California is the best state for them.

Price Range for the Car

After deciding what type of car you are buying, price is the next question. In order not to suffer losses, students should do some research before contacting dealers. Online prices are known as Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price(MSRP), but what we should care about is the invoice price which is the average price estimated by auto manufacturers. These could be found on kbb.com or edmunds.com. However, this is not the final price of a car. Adding up tax and other documentation fees brings you to the out-door price, the range you are looking for should be a little less than the outdoor price.

To Buy A Car Money is a Big Deal

According to invoice prices, you can bargain with dealers about a discount between 500 to 2000 dollars. Make sure you contact multiple dealers and find the best deal. Don’t be in such a hurry. It is better to buy cars around July and December, since the model will be outdated and the would be motivated at the end of each half year.

Get Your License

Obviously, we are talking about legal driving. Not a permit, you need a license. In California and many other states, you must have a driver license in order to drive alone. Specific information can be found on the DMV website.

Decide Your Budget

It is important to realize how much you are going to spend on your purchase because buying a car is a big deal. The final price of a car is the invoice price plus a tax and other documents fee. So do the math and get the right price range for a car. .

Buy Insurance

After you purchase a car, you would be required to have insurance for your auto. There are plenty of auto insurance, so the best way is to compare them and make a good choice.

What is it?

Online Game is a kind of Internet entertainment which use Internet as a medium to let plenty of people play the same game in a same server at the same time.

It is interesting isn’t it? Imagine the time we can only play the game with only one or two people, you will find that there are few things for us to do in the game. But it is completely change after the online game comes out. It allows people to communicate, play or even trade!

Popular Games at UCSB But our topic is not that huge but just about the the online gaming situation in UCSB! And we found something really interesting. The most popular online game in UCSB is separated in four groups: Dota, League of Legend(LOL), Overwatch and Counter-Strike:Global Offensive(CSGO)

By Sihao Choy & Zhexin Yin

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Online Gam ing also becomes a kind of sport now, and it’s called E-s port. More and more p eople star t accepting this concept an d E-sport is concerned by more an d more media and countries.

It is obvi ous that E-sport’s influence is increas ing in a high speed . Thousand s of world-w ide Esport competitio ns are hol ding every years and these competitio ns bring lots of pr ofit and satisfy th e player a ll