Henry Sarria

October 26, 2007

Answer Looters With a Trusty Six-Shooter

By Henry Sarria

Natural disasters are an awesome force. Tornados, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and yes, fires, are all acts that will make you realize nature's immense power - and can end your life in the same instant.

October 17, 2007

Lambright Plight Has All-Too-Familiar Tone

By Henry Sarria

Pimping ain't easy and neither is being a Cuban. I know this to be a fact and to all fellow Cubans, I quote the words of Bill "Slick Willy the Teflon Man" Clinton: "I feel your pain."

January 30, 2007

Nexus Protects Freedom of Speech for Every Opinion

By Henry Sarria

I can remember the first letter to the editor I wrote to the UCSB Daily Nexus way back in November of 1993. Soon thereafter, I would be asked to submit columns, which I have happily done up to this day.

November 3, 2006

Isla Vista Visitors Spoil Holiday

By Henry Sarria

Well, the verdict is in and the judgment has been made: Isla Vista residents are not the biggest part of the problem during the Halloween bash that's been going on for as long as anybody can remember.

October 24, 2006

Finding “The Man” Is a Highly Difficult Task

By Henry Sarria

Growing up in my old hometown of Hialeah, Florida, complaints of "The Man keeping us down" were a common thing. According to the providers of the tales - mostly of the hippie or militant persuasion -"The Man" was some ri...

May 12, 2006

Fight Back Against Racism By Educating Those Around Us

By Henry Sarria

To whoever scribbled that derogatory remark on the wall of the women's bathroom door in the Santa Rosa Residence Hall, I ask this simple question: Is that all you've got? After all, you're claiming some sort of superiori...

April 26, 2006

Wave the U.S. Flag, Not Mexico’s

By Henry Sarria

The recent immigration bill battle leaves much to be desired with both the legislators in charge of making the law and the actual protesters themselves. Politicians are an easy scapegoat in most matters, and, currently, ...

April 11, 2006

Recall Rehashes History

By Henry Sarria

"What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Simply translated, it means that what's good for one party is good for the other, and if you follow local politics you can probably see where this is headed.

March 8, 2006

ROTC Wins Court Ruling

By Henry Sarria

Stick a fork in it, it is done, so let's all move on and get to the subject at hand: Teaching students what they pay for in college, which is to learn, graduate and make the world a better place for generations to come.

February 22, 2006

Convicted Murderers Should Kick Can Much Sooner

By Henry Sarria

I'm going to throw a few names in your direction to see if they ring a bell: Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai-Yang and Yee Chen Lin. How about Terri Winchell?

February 2, 2006

Local Mourns In Evil’s Aftermath

By Henry Sarria

This week I was going to write about a comparison of the Palestinian elections to the ABC hit show, "Dancing with the Stars." Not to trivialize a historical event in our time, but, with all said and done, it was worthy o...

February 1, 2006

Racism Saturates Our Politics

By Henry Sarria

Race and racism are never easy topics to discuss, and good reasons exist for this fact. Some people do tend to get so emotional about the subject that the discussion becomes a rash of rhetoric. On a liberally inclined ca...

January 17, 2006

Race Relations Unjustly Questioned in Katrina Aftermath

By Henry Sarria

Hurricane Katrina showed us a lot, not only in terms of destruction, but the inefficiencies of the human species as a whole. Many of these inefficiencies came compliments of those in charge and at the expense of those af...

November 22, 2005

NCAA Scalps Seminoles

By Henry Sarria

To all of you self-righteous, politically-correct moralists, I have a message from the general American population, and it goes like this: Lighten up assholes!

November 2, 2005

Media Smudges I.V.’s Reputation

By Henry Sarria

I hate to be a naysayer or harbinger of bad news, as this usually goes against my generally good nature, but in the case of the "I told you so" clause, I'll gladly let the negativity flow in the necessary direction.

October 26, 2005

Long-time I.V. Resident Trick-or-Treats Down Memory Lane

By Henry Sarria

Here it is, just around the corner. Halloween, Isla Vista, 2005. So much has changed about Halloween in this town since I first got here that I think some clarification needs to be made. To begin with, there's a good rea...