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Funny, We Didn’t Order AppeThai’s Discrimination Platter

February is the month of Black history, a month when we must all, as a society, recognize any prejudices that we might have against others.
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Think


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Face Off: Should the Homeles Have a Shelter Near a School?

On April 1, the Santa Barbara Homeless Day Center and Winter Shelter will temporarily relocate to Ortega Street across from the Santa Barbara Community Academy elementary school while a second story i...
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Doyle Does Not Need to Give Apology

Let me express my utter and total displeasure with the letters written in the Daily Nexus on Wednesday, Feb. 20, "demanding" that Mr. Martin Doyle apologize for his remarks made a couple of weeks ago
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Weather: Career Day

There comes a time in one
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Our Culture Should Not Accept Sexism

After five years as a UCSB student, I thought I'd seen it all. I was sure I had seen all the assholes and all their asshole moves. But of course, I was wrong.
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Now is the Time to Remember Last Year’s Grief

February 2001 was a month marked by shocking, out-of-the-ordinary, deadly, life-altering events that impacted many individuals both at a personal level and at a community level.
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Mongoose: Don’t Be Sheep, Recall is About Cows

The No On Recall folks have a point when they say that the recall campaign is backed by a shadowy cabal of Isla Vista's landlord scum - there are two of them and as of December they contributed a whop...
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‘Little Slutty Column’ Sets a Bad Example for Isla Vistans

We just have one question for Sarah Kent: are you blind or are you just damn ignorant?
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‘What Goes Around Comes Around’

Sarah Kent's column in general is almost a cute attempt at being UCSB's own Carrie Bradshaw, but not quite.
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Who Can Beat Gray Davis?

In March the race for the governor of California, the most populous state, is going to heat up.
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Guinea Pig Heart

The weatherpet has dark secrets.
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Daily Nexus Betrayed Journalism, Commission on Disability Access

It is truly a shame that the articles published by the Daily Nexus, supposedly one of the more progressive UC newspapers, are half-researched and grossly inaccurate.
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S.A.M. We Are

The SB Homeless Day Center and Winter Shelter is being remodeled. It plans to move across the street from an elementary school. SB Community Academy mothers, we'll call them S.A.M., are outraged over ...
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Fortune Hunter

There is buried treasure under Los Carneros. That is why road crews keep digging up sections of the street only to inexpertly patch the holes.
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