Don’t Throw Out The Trash Just Yet: The Redemptive Value of Garbage TV

  I don’t watch much television now, but when I do I live on the extremes. I’m a college man, so it’s sort of my duty to play the intellectual, at least as a façade. I’ll watch “60 Min...
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When In Doubt (Or When Global Warming Bears Its Fiery Teeth), Optimism Is Always A Cop-Out

U.S. News & World Report, a website I use primarily to scoff at universities ranked below UCSB, happened to run an article recently headlined, “Study: Global Warming Can Be Slowed By Working Les...
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Hats Are Changeable; It’s The Head Beneath Them That Stays With You For Life

I learned the difference between dissociative identity disorder and role-play in my first year at UCSB. My freshman roommate, who declared in psychology during Zero Week, went a long way to help me un...
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Anatomy of an Opinion: The Nexus Welcomes Its Newest Online Column

I was immeasurably thrilled when I was given the opportunity to start writing opinion for the Nexus regularly. It was something I did in high school, and now I suppose I’ve been called up to AAA (I...
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Echos From Last Week: Are You Registered? Are You Registered? Are YOU Regist….?

I am having nightmares of hidden registrars. I am at the urinal in downstairs Girvetz; they ambush me with a reminder of the Oct. 22 registration deadline. Other times, I am in line for Subway, and af...
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