UC Fee Policy Threatens Student Groups With Death by Choking
Our campus has 470 registered campus organizations through the Office of Student Life (OSL): from the Zen Sitting Group to the Unicycle Club, The Mark Twain Anti-Imperialist Forum to Students Stopping Rape, Mellow Moods to the Graduate Students Association, each of these groups embrace their differences.
Highlanders Take High Road
The UCSB men’s basketball team was stranded in the desert on Saturday night, still rolled up in its shell and waiting to find life. The Gauchos dropped an important contest to UC Riverside 63-60 at the Student Recreation Center on Saturday evening in Santa Barbara’s final road game of the regular season.
Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 56: Strongly Endorse
The most controversial portion of this bill is a change in the required majority vote to pass budget-related bills and tax increases. Currently, California is one of three states in the U.S. that requires a two-thirds majority to pass these – one of those other two states is Arkansas.
… And Then Some More Thought on Joey
I am a Muslim student at UCSB. I recently read some parts of Joey Tartakovsky’s articles in the Daily Nexus. It really offended me the way he was describing some stories about Muslims worldwide.
Santa Barbara Stuns Long Beach State
They did it. The #7 UCSB men’s volleyball team pulled off a solid performance Friday night to upset #3 Long Beach State in a quick three-game sweep in Rob Gym.
Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 57: Strongly Oppose
Gov. Schwarzenegger won the gubernatorial race with a campaign focused on cleaning up Sacramento. Apparently Gov. Schwarzenegger believes that piles and piles of money and piles and piles of bills for the interest would contribute to his sparkly clean capital city. But he did sweep out all the interest-free government revenue the car tax would have raised.
EWB-USA Ladles In More Volunteers
Engineers Without Borders at UCSB may have attracted a few more members with homemade soup and alarming statistics at its Friday kickoff dinner. Mechanical engineering staff members David Bothman and Mary Dinh, and materials graduate student William Martinez started a local chapter of EWB-USA last fall.
Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 58: Oppose
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s second brainchild continues along in the same cowardly vein as Prop 57. Prop 58 is a California Constitutional Amendment that prevents future governors and legislatures from passing budgets that request more money than is available in the General Fund.
Sorority Race Benefits Cancer Research
The 3rd annual Kappa Dash began at 11 a.m. in front of the Kappa house at 6525 Picasso Road, circled around the lagoon, and finished back at the Kappa house. The event raised $6,000 to fight breast and cervical cancer. A total of 254 people attended, of which about 50 percent were greeks, 25 percent were students, and 25 percent were community members.