Opinion
Each year the discussion about Floatopia reminds me of the ironic paradox that is Isla Vista: a majority of left-leaning students living under the semi-despotic rule of the I.V. Foot Patrol and Santa ...
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I would like to say I know how to throw parties and get crazy. After all, I am part of the party that brought booze back by repealing Prohibition in 1933.
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Why do you do what you do? How do you do it so well? I’ll venture to say it’s because you’re addicted to a certain feeling. We all are.
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I write to protest the advertisements for Monday’s workers’ rally. While I am sympathetic to their cause, equating a U.S. state governor to Adolf Hitler is a ridiculous hyperbole.
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Welcome back from Spring Break! I’m sure you had a great week of living the wild life and have some fond memories to look back on. That’s what Spring Break is all about.
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Doctor, here are my symptoms: I am confused, I’m questioning my identity and ability to reason and my genitals are swelling up like an ocean wave at the sight of a hot chick.
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In 1969 an unelected dictator rose to power through a military coup to lead an Arab country in North Africa.
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The military intervention in Libya has led to a number of issues which greatly worry the conservative contingent.
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Let’s talk business. I have met too many people who “study” business but have no real skill in it.
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President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act a year ago this week. The law enacts significant health insurance reforms that will take effect over the next several years.
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This week’s question: “Doesn’t atheism lead to a belief that nothing has any meaning?”
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A drug commercial for your consideration: The screen is black. A heart monitor rhythmically beeps in the background. The screen slowly blinks twice. It reveals two, faintly blurry masked doctors stand...
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Ben Parish worries me. I will start with one thing from his March 1 article that I absolutely agreed with: its title.
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It is hard to believe only last month, on Jan. 14, the regime of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted by a people’s uprising...
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If there is one phrase that should be banned from the English language, it’s “I’ll be just a second.” Seriously, what redeeming value does that phrase possess?
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
