Month: November 2011

Volleyball

UCSB Adds to Win Streak With Doubleheader

November 21, 2011 by David Russo

The UCSB women’s volleyball team has now won its last six matches after defeating Cal State Northridge 3-2 on Friday and UC Riverside 3-0 on Saturday. The Gauchos (18-11 overall) were 5-5 in Big West play on Oct. 28, but finish at 11-5 in...

Outside Opinions

Righting w(Ron)gs

November 21, 2011 by Ryan Martin

In response the Opinion piece “(w)Ron(g) Paul’s Free Market Fairytale,” I’d like to clarify a few things. First, that huge leverage was an artifact of the fractional reserve system of money that the world has been using since the en...

Outside Opinions

Some Truisms About Hinduism

November 20, 2011 by Rajlakshmi Purkayastha

This is with reference to the article printed in the Opinion Section of the Daily Nexus edition printed on Wednesday, 16th November. The author makes an assertion that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion (as part of an argument that the col...

Opinion

The “Dos” and “Don’ts” of House Hunting

November 20, 2011 by Maya Salmon

[media-credit name=”Natalie O” align=”aligncenter” width=”250″][/media-credit]They roar like wildfire through the residence halls, they have Isla Vista residents abuzz, they have property providers scramb...

Video

UCSB Student Protests: Budget Cuts and Occupy Berkeley

November 18, 2011 by Multimedia Editor

November 16th, 2011- Students gathered at the Arbor to protest the University of California budget cuts, and the police action against students at UC Berkeley earlier in the week.