Opinion

August 23, 2011

“Dos” and “Don’ts” (But Mostly “Don’ts”) of Freshman Year

By Jenna Ryan, Jana Barrett

So you’ve finally made it, eh? You’ve pillaged Target’s college dorm aisle, awkwardly reached out to your future roommate in hopes of coordinating your bedspread and outfitted your whole extended family in UCSB gar...

August 23, 2011

College: It’s Like Chuck E. Cheese’s, But Without the Poop

By Andrew Johnson

You are about to enter another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of beer pong and handle pulls. A journey into a wondrous land of sex, drugs and dubstep. Welcome to Isla Vista. Let me address the...

August 3, 2011

Weather

By The Weatherhuman

The Weatherhuman doesn’t really understand why every coffee shop in IV has decided to hold atrociously inconvenient summer hours. Ze isn’t much of a coffee drinker in the first place, but if a ‘human wants a goddam...

July 13, 2011

Weather

By The Weatherhuman

The Harry Potter release is making Thursday night at midnight quite magical. (Or is that Friday morning at midnight?)

July 12, 2011

Professor’s Logic Concludes With Contradictions

By Opinion Editor

While watching my laundry make endless revolutions through the front glass window of the washing machine and having nothing more important to do, I picked up the Wednesday, June 22, 2011, edition of the Daily Nexus.

July 12, 2011

Thank You, UCSB, for the Beach, the Parties and … the Classes?

By Sue-Lin Wong

“Of course, I’m not going on exchange to go to class,” I would nonchalantly announce to anyone who would ask me what I was hoping to do on exchange at UCSB.

June 22, 2011

Professor Calls for Activism, Accountability and Love in Action

By Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

Several weeks ago, a meeting was held between Executive Vice-Chancellor Gene Lucas and campus staff, along with representatives from campus-based unions, students and community members. This was the latest in a series of...

June 2, 2011

Crime Problems Plague Isla Vista Residents

By Tim Benson

On May 15, 2011, a chill was sent down the spine of everyone who lives in Isla Vista or on campus. The sanctity and safety of the community that we hold so dear was severely threatened. Isla Vista has been and always wil...

June 2, 2011

Candidate Contests Election Endorsement Art

By Nicole Leopardo

My name is Nicole Leopardo and I am African American, Swedish, Italian, French, Native American and Chinese. I identify as multiracial.

May 31, 2011

Atheists Acknowledge Ambiguity, Bid Adieu

By Connor Oakes

“Ask an Atheist” is built on a dialogue with the community, and its greatest strength is the back-and-forth dialogue that the Nexus so generously facilitates. As a part of that process, in a recent article, the athei...

May 27, 2011

Putting an End to the Textbook Takeover of Your Wallet

By Onofre Echeverria

It’s that time of the quarter again. Dead Week. Finals. The time when your textbooks come in handy more than ever (because, let’s face it, many of us have chosen to “postpone” the hundreds of pages of joyous lear...

May 27, 2011

Putting an End to the Textbook Takeover of Your Wallet

By Onofre Echeverria

It’s that time of the quarter again. Dead Week. Finals. The time when your textbooks come in handy more than ever (because, let’s face it, many of us have chosen to “postpone” the hundreds of pages of joyous lear...

May 27, 2011

Immigration Complaints Disregard Basic Human Needs

By Connor Hastings

If you believe that there’s a “better” future out there for the occupants of our planet, and further believe that it’s worth the trouble to try to improve Earth as a whole, then we’re going to have to figure ou...

May 27, 2011

People, Not Governments, Grant States Legitimacy

By Michael Dean

In light of recent developments in the debate over the rights of Palestine and the future of Israel — spurred on the President’s speech on the Arab Spring and Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Cong...

May 26, 2011

“Four Years in Associated Students and Still the Same Shit”

By David Preciado

I’ve been involved in Associated Students for about four years now, probably one of the few that can recall the Ariel-like hair from our 2007-08 president, Stephanie Brower. Back when we didn’t have to take a TPS cou...

May 26, 2011

Jewish And Muslim Students Unite To Debunk Horowitz’s Claims

By Santa Barbara Hillel

The relationship between the Jewish and Muslim communities is often portrayed as one of enmity and opposition. In reality, this is just not true. Both Jews and Muslims are adherents of monotheist, Abrahamic religions tha...