Opinion

April 5, 2012

Addressing Homelessness

By Deborah Barnes

My team and I are in outreach on the streets and are deeply concerned about the number of homeless people, including families, entering into our parks, city dwellings, hospitals and beaches. More new faces, who were form...

April 5, 2012

Lock Your Doors: There’s No Better Way to Avoid Getting Robbed

By Mark Signa

I have to completely admit I have it easy. As I sit here on my bully pulpit, soap box, pedestal, mount or what ever raised platform you prefer, I espouse my mighty edicts of wisdom on the masses. Hurling my bits of judgm...

April 5, 2012

Body Language of Liars: How the Face and Feet Can Reveal a Fibber

By Kevin Ferguson

A few short weeks ago, I wrote an article that leads up to this second part on lying. To have a more complete understanding of the things we do verbally to mask our inevitable lies, I would refer you to that previous art...

April 4, 2012

The Roommate Double-Double: Careful Where That Appetite Takes You

By Elizabeth Brooks

Logic is the devil of language. And you want to know why? Because it would make perfect sense for you to fall in love with your hookup’s roommate. Talk about a classic mix-up. Have you ever woken up after a night of (s...

April 3, 2012

‘Is George Zimmerman Guilty? I Don’t Know — And Neither Do You’

By Jeffrey Robin

If you didn’t hear about it when it started gaining attention during finals week or Spring Break (if you did, what were you doing paying attention to politics during either period?), the sensation of the Trayvon Martin...

April 3, 2012

Colorblindness Doesn’t Mean Turning a Blind Eye

By Geoffrey Bell

It is so puzzling to me that many of my peers truly earnestly believe we now live in a colorblind society. On the one hand, I can understand where they’re coming from: there are far fewer instances of de jure racism th...

April 1, 2012

How the Party of “No” Managed to Oppose Its Own Idea

By Riley Schenck

Last week, the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, with conservatives giddy and itching to see the president’s single most im...

March 9, 2012

Go Green or Go Home

By Maya Salmon

Although Earth Day is not until April, Community Housing Offices likes to be ahead of the game and celebrate Going Green during March, when wearing green for St. Patrick’s Day makes us think of going green in our renta...

March 8, 2012

“As the Ominous Cloud of Finals Approaches, Take Shelter in the Great Outdoors”

By Harrison Gibson

Do you stress over upcoming finals? Is the apprehension burning you out? Do you find yourself pining to relieve built up anxiety over the readings and preparation required? If you answered yes to any of the previous ques...

March 8, 2012

To Press Charges, or Not to Press Charges: That is the Question

By Mark Signa

A couple of nights ago I was watching the movie “Spider-Man 2” with my son in my lap. It’s one of those relaxing moments that define your purpose in life. Some of you who have kids will know that moment. Others may...

March 8, 2012

Confessions of an American Homebody Abroad in Australia

By Corie Anderson

I would classify myself as a homebody. When given the option, I will choose to watch a good movie and enjoy a glass (or bottle) of red wine over walking the dirty streets of Isla Vista to search for a party. In fact, I s...

March 8, 2012

Without a Written Moral Code, What Inspires Atheists to Live Morally?

By Brian Gallagher, Connor Oakes

It’s an unfortunately common thought that in order for one to be a moral, ethical person, one must also be a religious person. More precisely, it’s believed that one becomes moral only from being religious. Thus, a...

March 7, 2012

Sexuality and Flexibility: No, No, Not That Kind of Flexibility

By Anonymous

I spent a long while trying to think of what to write for my first sex article for the Daily Nexus, and as I thought about it, I was forced to think about what, exactly, a sex article should cover. There is the obvious:...

March 6, 2012

Baby-Eating: Still the Obvious Solution to Our Economic Woes

By Geoffrey Bell

In his seminal 1729 essay, “A Modest Proposal,” social theorist Jonathan Swift presented a plan to solve Irish poverty through the exploitation of a valuable, renewable resource. Swift proposed infant cannibalism as ...

March 6, 2012

Christian Voice Needs No More Representation

By David Sanos

I have a problem with the inclusion of a Consult a Christian column, but not because I want to suppress the Christian position in favor of championing atheist, Jewish, empiricist, Rastafarian, secular, Muslim or Shinto o...

March 4, 2012

“A True Friend Will Help You Bury the Body and Then Drive You to Mexico”

By Kelly Nassour

It isn’t difficult to make friends in Isla Vista, but this place is so much like a dream that it makes it hard to tell who your real friends are, as opposed to fake friends that only want to know you because you live o...