Opinion
Prompt: Do Eastern religions provide any benefits that Western ones might not? In the Western world, or at least in the United States, religions of the Orient have increasingly come to take on ...
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I’m not your typical angry guy. I’m not the guy prone to cut and flip you off on the freeway. I’m not the guy you see hurling curses at CALPIRG recruiters or turning into a human steam engine th...
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If you want to make your man happy, there is a deceptively simple three-part plan that is guaranteed to work one hundred percent of the time: show up naked, bring beer and put on “Batman.” I’m s...
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I’m not sure you can call what I do “journalism”; I’m just not sure it makes the journalistic cut. That said, there’s just no other heading for it, so if I can do so without bringing out any...
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Are bananas the worst fruit in terms of health value? There is no such thing as a bad fruit. Bananas are fabulous! It all depends on how you define worst, which in turn depends on what nutrient...
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I am a master’s degree student at UCSB. I have a 2-year-old son who is in the White Door of the Orfalea Family Children’s Center. Recently, I heard that the university is going to cancel the d...
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Some will remember the commotion a few weeks back surrounding a resolution proposed to our student government that would have the university divest from American companies who profit from internationa...
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We as students face a continuing uphill battle to protect our rights to information even though we attend a public institution. Whether it be information about increasing student fees, cuts to classes...
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What is “politically incorrect”? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself for a while. With 18 articles claiming the title, you’d think I’d have figured it out by now. But t...
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We at the Nexus would first and foremost like to reiterate our support of the Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, including all of the associated groups mentioned in the above letter. To the ...
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During every election cycle at UCSB, students are inundated with an immense amount of information. While standing in support of healthy dialogue as a learning process, we as the 2012-13 A.S. Executive...
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We, A.S. Womyn’s Commission, A.S. Queer Commission, End Fake Clinics, Take Back the Night, Voices for Planned Parenthood and The Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, are extremely frustrated...
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My doves, my pets, hello. I return to you with a righteous crusade at hand. I dream a dream of perfectly mowed, or at the very least nicely trimmed, meadows in the pants of men everywhere. Yes, you yo...
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I think there should be a course on lecture hall etiquette but, unfortunately, no such thing exists. That’s why, this week, I’m going to use my status as a columnist to denounce what I consider th...
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Among the various candidates and measures on this year’s Associated Students ballot, you will notice that the Daily Nexus is up for a biennial reaffirmation of its quarterly student lock-in fee. Wit...
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“Greased Lightnin’” from “Grease”
Sunset waltz from “La La Land”
“Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Frat flick
“Macarena” by Los Del Río
“Gangnam Style” by PSY
“Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Renegade
“Cell Block Tango” from “Chicago”
“The Last Text” from “Dance Moms”
Flossing
All of “Hamilton”
