Opinion
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 yo...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 lobby...
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) lacks the moral standing to march onto the UCSB campus and lecture Professor Robinson or anyone else.
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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" ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ma...
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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 an...
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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...
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What I'm about to say defies all of my liberal sensibilities, but it needs to be said.
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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
