Internet Bookseller Goes Under After Facing Fierce Competition
BigWords.com, an online college textbook vendor, shut down on Oct. 20 after laying off close to 100 workers, leaving employees and competitors to ponder the reasons for their demise and the financial promise of selling college textbooks online.
Santa Barbara Can’t Overcome Irvine in Last Home Game of Year
UCSB had a tall order trying to knock off top-ranked UC Irvine and solidify a seed in this weekend’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship.
There Is Light at the End of Payday Tunnel
Bills, bills, bills. Are you financially frustrated? Do you have problems paying your rent on time? Could this month translate into another late cell phone payment?
Salvation Army Santas: Eat Your Hearts Out
Pessimists often say one person can’t make a difference. Twenty-one-year-old UCSB junior Gabriel Scherger knows he can. The geography and pre-med major’s holiday ideology revolves around the notion that one person can make a difference, and regardless of the size of the ripple of difference he creates, it still impacts the lives of others.
Ambassador Discuses Border Policy
Mexico’s improving economy warrants an open-border policy with the United States, Mexican economist and ambassador Dr. Cassio Luiselli Fernandez told an audience in the Chicano studies conference room yesterday.
Gauchos Sign Three Top Recruits for Softball As Kelly Has Big Hopes for New Arrivals
UCSB softball Head Coach Liz Kelly has more than enough to be excited about with the signing of three softball stars.
Leg Council May as Well Ban ‘Bad’ Food
On Nov. 15, 2000, the Associated Students Legislative Council considered eliminating the sale of tobacco products on campus. What a wonderful notion. Why not take away adults’ legal right to purchase completely legal products in stores that have every right to sell these products?
Nexus Obligated To Print Pollution Levels
The Shoreline Preservation Fund would like to thank the Daily Nexus for publishing the Oct. 30 article "Ocean Monitors Suggest Locals Stay Out of Water."
Tis the Season
Feature photo – Students from CalPIRG’s hunger and homeless division, including Jennifer Dyball, Tim Poulin, and Lori La Riva, packed almost 300 lunches for the homeless Monday in front of the UCen.
A Day in the Life of A Disabled UCSB Student
Editor, Daily Nexus: I am writing this letter in support of the wonderful work started by Associated Students’ Mel Fabi and Bill Flores in founding of the Commission on Disability Access (CODA). It must be said that CODA is not the first organization of its kind, though it is the best-funded and supported, thanks to […]