Opinion

January 11, 2013

Follow the Silkroad… To Get Your Drugs and Guns at the End of This Cyperspace Rainbow

By Michael Roe

Among the Internet’s giant e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay exists a relatively unknown and secretive marketplace called Silkroad, which operates in a hidden corner of the web. In many ways, Silkroad resembles any...

January 11, 2013

Anatomy of an Opinion: The Nexus Welcomes Its Newest Online Column

By Ben Moss

I was immeasurably thrilled when I was given the opportunity to start writing opinion for the Nexus regularly. It was something I did in high school, and now I suppose I’ve been called up to AAA (I’m thinking the big...

January 10, 2013

Grab 2013 By the Balls! The Sexual Musts to Make 2013 Bangin’

By Hayley E.

Hello my nubile Nexus readers! I hope you were all sufficiently sloshed on New Years. As I shamefully wasted an opportunity to make countless “Santa’s sack” jokes for the Christmas holiday, and instead chose to ran...

January 10, 2013

If In 2012 You Didn’t Succeed, Resolve, Resolve (and Fail) Again

By Mark Strong

I don’t have a New Year’s resolution. To most people, this implies one of two things: Either my life is so chock-full of love, happiness and fulfillment that I couldn’t imagine it getting any better, or I’ve reac...

January 8, 2013

Left Said: The Right To Bear Arms: Are America’s Gun Laws To Blame for Recent Gun Violence?

By Michael Dean

As the rapper Kool A.D. says, it’s hard to answer the question of guns. Firearms, while deeply ingrained in America’s collective consciousness, are deadly, and in the style of self-fulfilling prophecy, they beget tra...

January 8, 2013

Right Said: The Right To Bear Arms: Are America’s Gun Laws To Blame for Recent Gun Violence?

By Jeffrey Robin

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” —Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution   Just one week ago,...

January 7, 2013

Policing 2013 Fashion: The Sergeant Says Cuffs and Orange Jumpsuits Are Out

By Mark Signa

It’s hard to believe it’s already 2013! Fall Quarter is over, Halloween is a past memory, Christmas is over and New Year’s Eve is now just a fond remembrance. Sadly, I can’t recall exactly what happened at midnig...

January 7, 2013

Student Crossword Enthusiast Has 99 Problems and They’re All Down or Across

By Opinion Editor

There are a concerned and heretofore voiceless set of students on campus whom on behalf of which I intend to write you. We are the students showing up early to lecture halls, the bus stop waiters, the lunch time readers ...

November 30, 2012

How Do Evolution and Natural Selection Affect Morality?

By Travis Vail

To answer the question bluntly, we simply wouldn’t have morality without evolution or natural selection. However, being fair to morality, we probably wouldn’t have survived as a species without it either. If we consi...

November 30, 2012

Female and Republican? One Lady Elephant Trumpets Her Case

By Anonymous

My parents never talked about politics. One night in a bar, this somehow gave me validity as a Republican. The fact that my ideologies were neither a choice to mime my parent’s party politics, nor the cliché rebellion...

November 30, 2012

Choosing the Moral High Road When Funny Isn’t So Funny

By James Cobb

My story begins at the start of this quarter; one of my classes which I looked forward to taking was titled “Asian Americans in the Media,” a class that I thought would be mostly about watching indie Asian films and ...

November 30, 2012

Whether You’re on Your Roof or Your Rent Is Through It, CHO Is Here with Answers

By Maya Salmon

When is the best time to start searching for housing in Isla Vista? We’ve all heard “the early bird gets the worm,” but when it comes to housing for next year in I.V. and all of the other options you might want to ...

November 29, 2012

Finals Bells Are A’Ringin’…‘Tis the Season for Adderall? (Medical Opinions on the Popular Study Drug)

By Edwin Feliciano

1. My friends tell me that there is nothing better than Adderall if I need to study all night. I hear about it all the time, but what exactly is it? Adderall is the brand name (brand names are used by pharmaceutical comp...

November 29, 2012

As Tragic Events Mount, One Columnist Pleas For an End to I.V. Violence

By Mark Strong

I’m fed up. Maybe you are, too. There have been two stabbings in Isla Vista since the beginning of the school year. That’s one per month. Couple that with two cases of illegally-discharged firearms, numerous cases of...

November 28, 2012

Titty Patrol Here, Laying Down the Law on Bosom Standards and Practices

By Hayley E.

Hello my pervy public, today we will be discussing the do’s and don’ts of fondling a woman’s sweater monkeys. This topic is very near and dear to my heart (as well as on top of it). From a young age, I have suffere...

November 21, 2012

Gay, Straight,Vanilla, Kinky, Polyamory, Femme, Butch: In the Palette of Sexual Tastes, Minorities Are Not One, But Many

By Anonymous

In my recent reflections, I have found myself considering society’s approach to sexual minorities. From fetishism to transgender attraction to polyamorous behavior to non-heterosexuality, non-normative sexual behavior ...