Opinion

April 28, 2009

No Vitriol Wanted Here

By Ross Nolan

The other day on my way home I happened to run into the “No on Hate” rally working its way through campus and out into I.V. A few hundred students marched and shouted slogans all about how they want UCSB to b...

April 28, 2009

liek omg guys!

By The Weatherhuman

OMG guys, the day's finally here. Death Cab is coming!!! I'm soooo excited.

April 28, 2009

Take a Puff and Stop Hating on Weed

By Ross Miletich

Mr. Sforza’s column (“A Joint Rolled Is a Body Buried,” Daily Nexus, April 22) is a fundamentally flawed, though well intended, article. Mr. Sforza obviously cares about the suffering innocents in Mexic...

April 28, 2009

Take a Puff and Stop Hating on Weed

By Michael Novak

David Sforza needs to roll a j and sit this one out because he did a poor job of describing his fellow Santa Barbarians (“A Joint Rolled Is a Body Buried,” Daily Nexus, April 22). I understand that the drug w...

April 27, 2009

I Want a Recount!

By The Weatherhuman

You all failed me. All I asked was that you band together just a little bit to elect the Weatherhuman as A.S. president, and you let me down. Thanks guys. To make it worse, A.S. didn’t even include me in their elec...

April 27, 2009

Get Informed on Floatopia at Tonight’s Meeting

By Rod Tucknott

Friends & Colleagues, Vice Chancellor Michael Young's letter regarding Floatopia suggested (among many things) to "get on Facebook and ask people not to come." For those who have not directly seen the "garbage strewn al...

April 27, 2009

Calling Women “Hoes” Is Demeaning, Appalling

By Lydia Tonozzi

After reading Jesse Byrd's column ("I Got Hoes," Daily Nexus, April 23), I nearly vomited my Pita Pit, not just because of the phrase "summa cum Ho-de," but because of the sheer demoralization of women that it presented.

April 27, 2009

A.S. Elections Are Only What You Make of Them

By Dan Goldbeck

As a student of politics, I am somehow interested in processes as mundane, hapless and quasi-important as A.S. elections. The recent election saw the Open People's Party take a hold of A.S. with proportions similar to ce...

April 27, 2009

The Case Against Legalizing Marijuana

By Shaeffer Bannigan

Many people blame the government for the war on drugs because the government refuses to legalize the drug. But the war on drugs isn't as shortsighted as proponents of legalization would like to think. Legalizing marijuan...

April 24, 2009

University-Owned Hell

By Arabella Alameda

It's Friday night, and I ask myself, what is the average college sophomore at UCSB doing? Drinking in Isla Vista, obviously. What am I doing? Drinking of course, but not in I.V. I am drinking just outside of UCSB's own E...

April 24, 2009

Blogs? What?

By Staff

When’s the last time you checked out the Daily Nexus blogs? Well, mosey on over there to find out what’s new! Here’s a hint: there’s something about s-e-x. Scandalous.

April 23, 2009

Self-Reflection

By The Weatherhuman

Facebook recently told me that “Two of my friends are fans of God.” Sweet. Really glad I now know that. That’s so useful, I think I just might tweet about it. Or better yet, I’ll start a shitty ba...

April 23, 2009

Floatopia Craze Threatens I.V.’s Party Culture

By Derek Mead

Wandering through the crowds at the last Floatopia, bro-bumping everyone in sight and pounding cut-rate malt liquor with a mob of friends, I was having an unfathomably good time. Suddenly coming into a clearing among the...

April 23, 2009

Racing Ain’t Just For Rednecks

By Jimmy Fremgen

It was a beautiful April evening in Ventura. It was warm, the sun was setting behind me and a slight breeze kept the air moving as I watched 16 sprint cars whiz by in front of me in upwards of 65 miles per hour. Sliding ...

April 23, 2009

Does Floatopia Deserve Such Fury?

By Darwin Bondgraham

Vice Chancellor Michael Young wrote a commendable appeal to UCSB students (“Floatopia,” April 22, 2009). Given the first Floatopia’s impact on the ocean and shoreline earlier this month, Young goes on t...

April 23, 2009

Does Floatopia Deserve Such Fury?

By Michael Morea

After reading Vice Chancellor Michael Young’s recent mass e-mail regarding the Floatopia 2 situation, I find myself conflicted. On one hand, I agree with him on the hypocrisy of some UCSB students, who tout their e...