Well, I just experienced my first Halloween ever in Isla Vista and let me tell you, it was unbelievable. I could not believe the sheer amount of people parading around in their costumes, or lack of costumes in some instances, on Del Playa. It was great to see everyone having fun while keeping safe.
Famous activist Angela Davis and folksinger Arlo Guthrie will bring back the spirit of 1960s political activism by presenting debate and song in separate venues today.
I’d like to respond to Colin Marshall’s piece, “Don’t Forget the Costume Smog Check” (Daily Nexus, Oct. 28). I (and several other girls I know) would like to tell that misogynistic bastard to go fuck himself. He equates going out to party/hooking up with buying used goods, which seems to belie his feelings that Isla Vista women who make certain fashion choices – platform shoes, dyed hair or tattooed lower backs – just scream of a woman looking to get fucked, no matter who she’s getting it from.
Devoid of student group attendance at its regularly scheduled meeting, the Associated Students Finance Board concluded their Monday afternoon business after seven minutes, making it the group’s shortest gathering of the school year.