Leg Council Members Need to Respect UCSB Students

No reason to beat around the bush. I don’t admire A.S. nor do I find reading the Nexus an enlightening activity. I do have an opinion though, but like the majority of the student body, I am never impassioned enough to write in and contribute my voice and my reasoning to a discussion that should – but rarely, if ever does – involve us all.

Board Seeks Qualified Applicants

The University of California is accepting applications until Feb. 22 for the student regent position – granted to just one UC student from all ten campuses per year.

Study Shows Diversity Adds Much Success to Businesses

Much of the dialogue that has taken place on the Nexus’s opinion page over the past couple weeks has centered around diversity and its effects on institutions of higher learning. Arguments in favor of promoting diversity have mainly centered on the morality of it: That a college education is a right, not a privilege and that people from all walks of life deserve that opportunity.

UCSB Professor’s Research Leads Way For New Stuttering Treatments

Speech and hearing professor Roger Ingham and his team of researchers are well on their way to developing the first effective treatment for stuttering.

Don’t Mess With Texas

Everything is bigger in Texas. And if Sammy Sosa somehow manages to squeak his way into the Rangers’ 40 man roster, the bats will be bigger and corkier in 2007.

UCSB Officers Devote Far Too Much Time to Bicyclists

The following is an open letter to the UCPD:

I would like to offer my sincere thanks for all of your efforts to keep our campus community safe. Without fine officers such as you, this campus would be very badly off.

Insert Hoeing Pun Here

I am standing at UCSB’s 2007 Word Farm watching Harrison Reiner say, “I’m totally star struck. And I thought I couldn’t get star struck anymore, I am a big fan of your work, big fan,” to a flaming-haired woman. Reiner, a CBS Executive, has worked on such films as academy award winning “My Left Foot” and “Cinema Paradiso.”

Nexus Player of the Week: Jessica Wilson

Thanks in a large part to junior guard Jessica Wilson’s success filling in at the point position, the UCSB women’s basketball team is riding a six-game win streak that has sent the team into second place in the Big West. For her recent performances, including 19 points and five assists on Saturday, she has been named the Daily Nexus Athlete of the Week.

Decent Proposal

The Nexus got an anonymous phone call from a dedicated reader of the paper last night, telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Oh thanks, sweetie. We were wondering how to release all the frustration we’ve been feeling.

A.S. Ends Efforts to Disrupt Nexus Fees After Legal Setback

Despite a promise made earlier in the week, the Associated Students Legislative Council opted last night not to override A.S. President Jared Goldschen’s veto of a resolution to freeze Daily Nexus funds.