Daily Nexus Editorial Board

April 26, 2004

To the Victors Go the Spoils

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Cervin Morris will not pay tuition next year. Neither will his three vice presidents, Andrea Wells, Felicia Cruz and Jared Renfro. It's part of the Associated Students Legal Code. "Each executive officer must receive ful...

April 14, 2004

The Little Deli Mart That Couldn’t

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Isla Vista Market, Mac's Market, the Six-Pak Shop, S.O.S. Liquor, International Food Market, Isla Vista Co-op - is one more really going to push I.V. over the edge?

March 1, 2004

Nexus Endorsement for 3rd District Supervisor: Nobody

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

We're not nihilists, yet we're endorsing nothing. When election time rolls around, the position of 3rd District supervisor is a magnet for political divisiveness, childish behavior and caustic campaigns. It's the embodim...

March 1, 2004

Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 55: Endorse

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Even in the shadow of a monstrous budget crisis, education should be a priority. Still, Prop 55 asks for a $12.3 billion bond - a hefty sum even in a healthy economy.

March 1, 2004

Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 56: Strongly Endorse

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

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 ma...

March 1, 2004

Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 57: Strongly Oppose

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

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 ...

March 1, 2004

Nexus Endorsement for Proposition 58: Oppose

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

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 req...

January 15, 2004

May Wild Dogs Devour You

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Sometime before 10 this morning, some foul beast of a man, possibly aided by others, took all available copies of the Daily Nexus from at least 10 of the racks on campus and threw them in trash bins nearby

December 4, 2003

Twas the Day Before Finals

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

It would make a great game show. Your school's teaching assistants plan to strike, but you have to guess why. "Is it Eskimo Pies? Are you planning to strike because you want more Eskimo Pies?" Only the strike didn't hap...

November 10, 2003

Gutenburg’s Curse

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Books may be emblematic of student life, but more recently they've also come to represent student poverty. Expensive textbooks, however, are a headache the University and its professors could prevent.

October 6, 2003

Nexus Election Endorsements: The Recall

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

This recall is costing the state of California $70 million that definitely don't need to be spent. Especially not on a sideshow.And there's already talk of a new recall campaign to begin if Schwarzenegger takes office. A...

October 6, 2003

Nexus Election Endorsements: Governator

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Ah, the least of 152 evils. Picking Cruz Bustamante as the best candidate to replace the present governor is like spotting the least soiled corner of a discolored Motel 6 mattress.

October 6, 2003

Nexus Election Endorsements: Prop. 53

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Proposition 53 is the closest thing to being boring to the point of death that anyone at this office has ever encountered. An interesting scheme, really, if its intent is as malicious as its possibilities.

October 6, 2003

Nexus Election Endorsements: Prop. 54

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Although UC Regent Ward Connerly would like for the ethnically diverse state of California to cease differentiating between black, white, brown and every other shade of skin color, a ban on racial classification threaten...

October 3, 2003

Bus-ted

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Watergate, Monicagate, Fajitagate. And now a scandal to top them all: Bus Gategate. The label "scandal" possibly casts too poor a light on a simple device, but the gate installed to allow only Santa Barbara Metropolitan ...

September 26, 2003

Porn Is Not the Enemy

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Slithering into Isla Vista in a grimy rut well-worn by the vices of alcohol, drugs, sexual harassment and objectification is that lusty, gonad-shaking demon called porn.