Opinion

May 27, 2009

Go Green With Environmental Studies Degree

By Ryan Sweeney

If you're a first- or second-year and still don't know what to major in, try environmental studies. At least sit in on some talks by the pioneers in the field that the university has brought in. If you're eager to make m...

May 27, 2009

goddamnit.

By Staff

goddamnit.

May 26, 2009

Dear Graduates: Quit Your Bitchin’

By Micael Kemp and Don Lubach

Career Services manages GauchoLink, UCSB's job-listing service for students. We have averaged one incoming job or internship every hour over the past few weeks. We would expect to see dozens, or even a hundred students a...

May 26, 2009

Real World Dodging

By The Weatherhuman

Holy shit, seniors, graduation’s coming up! What are you going to do with your lives once you leave this bubble and enter the real world? I mean, with the economy in the awesome state it’s in, the job search ...

May 26, 2009

Student Questions Role of So-Called

By Jordan Falk

In the article "Officials Investigate Questionable E-mail," (Daily Nexus, March 21) Ms. Pena-Leon was quoted as saying that the university is investigating Professor Robinson due to the "Israeli lobbyists."

May 26, 2009

ADL Lacks Moral High Ground in Robinson Case

By Staff

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) lacks the moral standing to march onto the UCSB campus and lecture Professor Robinson or anyone else.

May 26, 2009

Forum Mocks Free Speech by Ignoring Opposing Views

By Peter Melnick

Last Thursday a coalition of UCSB grad students and undergraduates held an event at Embarcadero Hall that they promoted as a forum on academic freedom. Led by four university professors, the "forum" was in fact a two-ho...

May 21, 2009

Fixies Are for Douchebags

By Patrick Sullivan

So beware fixed-gear fairies, because if I ever catch up to one of you guys riding by at mach-3 like you're Lance Armstrong, I will not hesitate to test your backwards pedaling skills as I careen all over the bike path l...

May 21, 2009

Students Obsess Over Drugs, Alcohol

By Melanie Dyer

In the last few weeks I find that I can't look at the Opinion page without reading some tripe about drugs or drinking. We even have columnists on these subjects.

May 21, 2009

Nexus Headline Spurs Response

By Opinion Editor

No one cares about the struggle of American Indians. Your life today is way better than it would've been if Europeans hadn't come and ruined the lives of those original Native Americans.

May 21, 2009

Skater Boy

By The Weatherhuman

Is it just me, or do most girls riding skateboards look like a) they’re trying to achieve liftoff, or b) they would be more at home on a Razor scooter? Most of them aren’t going more than a few yards per hour...

May 21, 2009

Surf Into Awesomeness

By Jimmy Fremgen

The summer before I moved to UCSB I was given a surfboard. The nose was split open and it was riddled with dings, but I eventually glued it back together and swore to learn how to surf better. Like many people, I had a f...

May 21, 2009

“Great Debate” Piece Proves Jesse Byrd Should Focus on Basketball

By Patrick McQuinn

Being a huge sports fan, I am usually inclined to turn to the sports page in the Nexus first. Most of the time, I'm greeted very kindly by interesting sports articles or discussions on professional and college sports. Bu...

May 20, 2009

The Coolest of Crimes

By The Weatherhuman

What I'm about to say defies all of my liberal sensibilities, but it needs to be said.

May 20, 2009

My Gay Friend Wants to Tell You…

By Jenni Perez

Although the effort to kick Prop 8 to the curb was unsuccessful on the larger scale, as far as UCSB was concerned, equality prevailed. In celebration of Chuck Norris-caliber kick-assitude. I dedicate this column to some...

May 20, 2009

Release of Torture Memos Signals Change

By David Sforza

"We do not torture." That's a line that will go down with Nixon's "I am not a crook." For years we were told by the Bush administration that our country abides by the Geneva Conventions and treat prisoners of war fairly...