Opinion
Hello. My name is Kera, and I'm a drunk dialer. It's been a rough seven weeks, two days and about 13 hours, but I'm finally cured. If it weren't for the support of my sponsor, Sext Message, I might be...
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"Because our future economic well-being is so dependent upon education ... we can no longer afford to cut higher education." Those words were spoken by Gov. Schwarzenegger last week during his annual ...
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No Child Left Behind, proposed by George W. Bush at the outset of his presidency, introduced "standards-based education reform" to school systems throughout the nation. The irony, of course, is that t...
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It is time that the NBA gets real. In the eyes of the NBA, it is okay to make millions off of its athletes. It is okay to sell its name and its street-ball game to the world. It is okay to blare rap m...
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Have you ever had someone pass you a note that said, "Your stupid"?
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I sometimes find myself meandering through the library, browsing books, leafing through magazines, making sure to avoid the masturbators on the fifth floor, you know, the usual stuff.
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Each time Christmas break ends, I feel more tired of the holiday. As a kid, I thought Christmas was great: Heavy Tahoe snow, tons of presents and rare family visitations made it a pretty magical time ...
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Political Columnists Miss the Mark in Terror Debate Your “Left Said/Right Said” excels in offering the disappointing shallowness that college newspapers are so predictably famous for. I...
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The new year is upon us, and what does that mean? A million annoying top-10 lists from 2009! Holy mother of a Buick, does anyone really care what the top 10 flavors of pistachios were in 2009? Or does...
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"Have a little faith in me." Okay, who said this and why? I've heard the song and everything, but I don't get it.
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As the weeks went by last quarter, I continually heard numerous students, faculty members and random protestors complain that the UC is crushing their ability to get an education. "How can they just ...
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I use my phone a lot. And not just for communication. I use it to know what the time is, I use it for entertainment, I even use it so people don't come up to me when I'm walking around campus and ask ...
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When my English professor asked our class what we did over Winter Break, I kept my mouth shut. I wasn't prepared to inform 38 strangers that I spent my vacation investigating Santa Barbara's sexual de...
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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
