Steven Ruszczycky

May 21, 2002

Living Without Vowels: I.V., Use Your Indoor Voice

By Steven Ruszczycky

While the ordinance can put a damper on my celebration plans, it actually is a decent way of regulating the problems caused by parties gone bad.

May 14, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Same-sex Schools Are Sure to Save Society

By Steven Ruszczycky

Thankfully, our good, born-again Christian President Bush decided that a return to Victorian sensibility is just what this nation needs. His first target: public schools.

May 7, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Shut Your Mouth and Let Me Speak

By Steven Ruszczycky

You can agree that Attias did what he did. But God help you if you're not out chanting for blood. If you should mention that Attias doesn't deserve to die, kiss a pound of your pink flesh goodbye.

April 30, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Homo Is Where the Heart Is

By Steven Ruszczycky

Coming out of the closet to the parents is like trying to tell a joke. You need the right timing, the right tone and delivery.

April 24, 2002

Living Without Vowels: A.S. Plays ‘Hungry, Hungry, Drippos’

By Steven Ruszczycky

College elections are like a group of children playing a board game. The rules are simple but the outcome relies on chance since the players lack the mental ability for any kind of strategy.

April 19, 2002

Candidates

By Brendan Buhler, Steven Ruszczycky

If you ask Maggie Stack what the most important thing an Associated Students president can do, she says, "Go to committee meetings."

April 19, 2002

Policy Endorsements

By Brendan Buhler, Steven Ruszczycky

Sports and activity facility fee

April 15, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Academic Writing Needs an Enema

By Steven Ruszczycky

I returned to the theory book in my lap and immediately felt disappointed with myself. I had fallen victim to the glorious illusion put forth by the devious nature of academic writing.

April 9, 2002

Living Without Vowels: We Must Take Time to Reflect on the Past

By Steven Ruszczycky

UCSB received its own chilling reminder of the Holocaust on Monday as the names of those who died in the holocaust echoed through Storke Plaza.

April 2, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Pro-Lifer Knows How to Use Dead Babies to Get People Yelling

By Steven Ruszczycky

The aborted fetus on the sign the girl held looked like a wild panther had mauled it and then crammed the carcass in a blender to make smoothies for its cubs. I turned to my friend and told him I was hungry for veal.

March 4, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Is a Ph.D Worth the Trouble of Going Down on Your Knees?

By Steven Ruszczycky

Ah, week nine, how I love thee. With you comes the deluge of final papers, homework assignments and late nights filled with caffeine and frantic reading, trying to catch up with the syllabus the professor never quite stu...

February 26, 2002

Living Without Vowels: There’s Nothing Strange About Being Queer

By Steven Ruszczycky

It was a hell of a weekend. I knew I was in deep when I sat listening to Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transsexual who emanated power and form as she discussed spirituality and a Stonewallesque riot that occurred in th...

February 19, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Sure They All Have Mustaches, But Which One’s Butch?

By Steven Ruszczycky

Jim Thomas, Santa Barbara County's sheriff for the past 12 years, will be leaving office in 2003. His intentions have turned political, running against Marshall in an election this summer and relying on others to throw t...

February 12, 2002

Living Without Vowels: The Stabbing Pain in Your Heart Is Raw Love

By Steven Ruszczycky

Whoever said love is the universal language is full of shit. The true language of the universe is pain and loss. Everyone can testify that they've been hurt, be it a stubbed toe or the death of someone close.

February 5, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Move Out When the Roomie Chokes Himself, Chicken

By Steven Ruszczycky

It seems that my friend had come home to find Tim laying naked on the floor of their living room, a ski mask over his head and a noose tied around his throat.

January 29, 2002

Living Without Vowels: U.S. Needs POW Rules

By Steven Ruszczycky

Let loose the dogs of war, or, if you're the Bush administration, keep them trapped in kennels of tin and steel with liberal access for poking sticks.