Opinion

February 23, 2010

Master Political Operatives Necessary for Both Parties

By Steven Begakis

Those who criticize Karl Rove usually do so either out of ignorance or partisan hypocrisy. As students prepare to hear "the architect" speak at UCSB, they should remember that Rove, like any strategist, was one of many p...

February 23, 2010

Merchants of Corruption Do Not Deserve to Speak

By Michael Reynoso

This Thursday our campus will again play host to a vile icon of the right, someone perhaps not as unhinged as Horowitz but no less of a monster: Karl Rove.

February 22, 2010

Drama-Charged People

By The Weatherhuman

Drama, drama, drama.

February 22, 2010

How to Write a Proper Paper

By Igor Hiller

While students readily come to me for advice about sex and relationships, there are some things that they are too ashamed to admit they need help with. And it's not penis abnormalities, because I get plenty of those ques...

February 22, 2010

Regents Must Embrace Corporate Responsibility

By Jack Ucciferri

Your money is being used to support destructive and discriminatory business practices and there is something you can do about it. It’s true: in 2008 the UC Regents voted, on your behalf, against 47 resolutions that...

February 19, 2010

Alanis On the Matter

By The Weatherhuman

So, bad timing. Planning everything out with your friends or whoever, only to find out that the days you made your great plans for also happen to be the only times your best friend can visit or that your favorite band is...

February 19, 2010

Dear Hippies: Please Take a Bath and Shut Up

By Zac Gates

Hippies are annoying. And they smell. Has it ever occurred to you -- as some dreadlocked scallywag is screaming "WAR CRIMINAL" or "DOWN WITH OLD SPICE" -- that it's very hard to find someone who actually cares?

February 19, 2010

Take Steps to Prevent Reckless Drunk Driving

By Lisa Shapiro

I had a wake up call about the fragility of life this weekend when I found out that a friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver early Friday morning at Brown University. It seems like at least once a year a really bad ...

February 18, 2010

I Deny Thee Thrice, Chocolate

By The Weatherhuman

You know, the Weatherhuman isn't particularly religious, but fuck if I don't wish I was.

February 18, 2010

Common Sense Curbs Craigslist Hocus Pocus

By Mark Signa

P.T. Barnum is credited with the saying, "There's a sucker born every minute." Ironically, it turns out he never actually said that. Instead, in an attempt to discredit him, another circus owner accused him of saying it...

February 18, 2010

Info Session To Inform About A.S.

By Armando Carmona, Paul Monge

Spring Quarter means student government elections. Over the last several weeks, there has been a lot of resentment toward our student government, Associated Students, due to some allegations over the misuse of student fe...

February 17, 2010

Nap Time

By The Weatherhuman

Napping is godly.

February 17, 2010

Failure of Healthcare Bill Affects Students

By Stephen Szczurko

Over a million people across the United States suffer from a lack of health insurance coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Millions more find themselves losing their homes due to the debt they accrued from medical co...

February 17, 2010

Delight in Igniting Old Flames

By Opinion Editor

Ah, Spring. It has arrived in full bloom, along with cloudless skies and girls in bikinis and UGGs working on their February tans. As the weather continues its persistent custom of cycling from warm to cold and back agai...

February 16, 2010

Love Stinks

By The Weatherhuman

So did everyone fall in love this weekend?

February 16, 2010

Protestors Represent Widespread American Discontent

By Steven Begakis

To date, the revolutionaries have won. Government tax-and-spend stimulus bills are now politically toxic, and the push for a national healthcare bill has been soundly defeated.