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New Year’s Wishes

January 7, 2002 by Staff

If we had but one wish for the new year, we would wish for everyone in Isla Vista to help his or her neighbor and to live a life free of fear.
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Weather Geek

January 7, 2002 by Staff

As the rest of skied and ate turkey this holiday season some of us here at the Nexus were working hard. Managing Editor Curtis Brainard mucked out 30 years of Nexus funk. I was in the library working ...
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Red Tape: It Makes You Want to Reach Out and Strangle Someone

January 7, 2002 by Josh Braun

Some of you may remember a column I wrote about my troubles with the phone company. What happened then was just the beginning. For the next two months my bills from Verizon failed to credit me for my ...
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Barraging the Brussel Sprout Barricades

November 30, 2001 by Staff

The weatherpet is a vegan
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Fertilizer & Flowers

November 30, 2001 by Staff

It's time for the quarterly tulips and turds to be dished out.
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Weather: To the Battle-Hardened

November 30, 2001 by Staff

Congratulations, you made it! The end of week 10! Just a Dead Week and some tests left. Let me guess: the days took eons, but the weeks went by in a flash. Let me guess: You didn’t study, but yo...
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Shed a Little Light

November 30, 2001 by Staff

When one thinks of Isla Vista as a community, it's easy to forget the 10,000 residents who aren't students. We don't interact with them on a daily basis, even though they live down the street or even ...
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The Sure Way To Stop Venoco’s Oily Plan Is to Buy Them Out

November 30, 2001 by Nicola Doss

Venoco Inc. has proposed a revamping and expansion of its oil development facilities.
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Red Tape: You Follow in a Long Line of Finals-Haters, Young One

November 30, 2001 by Josh Braun

UCSB is a member of the Association of American Universities, a list of the 60 leading colleges in the U.S. and Canada. We were also ranked the second best public research institution in the U.S., as ...
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Taking That Last, Frightening Step Off the Edge Into Oblivion

November 30, 2001 by David Downs

I weigh these thoughts heavily, stand up on wobbly legs, and feel the wind against my back. On the horizon, the Channel Islands bathe in fog and I muster my strength.
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Living Without Vowels: When It Comes to Drugs, Watch Your Glass and Ass

November 30, 2001 by Steven Ruszczycky

While the decision to do drugs is a personal choice, anyone using them for the purposes of rape ought to have their gonads removed by a hungry poodle.
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Grad Students Bite Back at Elections

November 30, 2001 by Brendan Buhler

Fed up with the way mandatory student fees are dumped on them, grad students are threatening to make this year's campuswide elections worthless.
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We Can Learn About Terrorism From the Israelis

November 30, 2001 by Jarad Bernstein

Just as America is hunting down bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, Israel is hunting down terrorist members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and other...
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SAT Success Is Best Left to the Boot Straps

November 29, 2001 by Danny MacLeith

I find it extremely hard to believe that just because a test-taker comes from a low-income neighborhood or family, answering questions about high school mathematics is so much more difficult for them ...
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In Memory: El Canario (1988 – 2001)

November 29, 2001 by Staff

The weatherbike was stolen last week. It was parked, whistling cheerfully at passerby in its bright, yellow fashion. The weatherbike was always cheerful, even when it lost its handlebars and the brake...
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