Opinion

February 18, 2009

Breaking Up Before Holidays

By Adam Wenger

Shit! In four days it’ll be our two-year anniversary together and you’re going to expect a nice gift from me. I’m going to have to stop everything else in my life and focus on you. Or focus on us, anywa...

February 18, 2009

Breaking Up Before Holidays

By Nicki Arnold

So you’re in a relationship. It was everything you’d ever dreamed of: the bee’s knees, cloud 9, blah blah blah, cliché bullshit. But notice the tense on that: was. You’re tired of it now. The...

February 18, 2009

Octo-Mom

By Staff

February 17, 2009

President’s Lay

By The Weatherhuman

So how bout that day off? I hope you used it as productively as I did, sitting inside wishing I could muster up the energy to brave the downpours and actually do something with my life.

February 17, 2009

Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

By Colleen Becket-Davenport

I am appalled by Steven Begakis’ opinion article “Sex and Morality Should Mix,” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 12, 2009). As a Sex and Relationships Intern, a member of the group sponsoring Sexual Responsibility We...

February 17, 2009

Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

By Lisa Nicholson

I was shaking my head throughout Steven Begakis’ “Sex and Morality Should Mix” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 12, 2009). His first mistake is assuming all instances of pre-marital sex involve “drunkenness and...

February 17, 2009

Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

By Marc Duquette

Time and again I am amazed at the drivel published in the Nexus. Mr. Begakis, your latest article was a disgusting display of evangelistic moralizing, condescension, logical fallacy and wanton ignorance. Hell, you even l...

February 17, 2009

Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

By Mike Novak

I’ll let you off easy because you’re a freshie, but you could not be more wrong about the aims of safe sex education. First of all, sex is awesome. Enough said. Second of all, the one thing you always hear af...

February 12, 2009

UC Librarians Deserve Fair, Competitive Wages

By Anna DeVore

UC Librarians Deserve Fair, Competitive Wages Editor, Daily Nexus University of California libraries are at the heart of the research and teaching missions of the University, and UC librarians and staff make them work. U...

February 12, 2009

No Valentines for Clinton

By The Weatherhuman

Valentine’s Day is this weekend! So is President’s Day! I propose we combine the two and all send Obama a Valentine. Or George W., if you want. Hell, you can even send one to Carter if that’s what you&#...

February 12, 2009

Small Things Can Both Pleasure and Pester

By Adam Wenger

I’m a man of simple pleasures. Spending four years at this school has taught me to enjoy the little things in life, from time spent playing drunken Mario Kart with my roommates at 3 a.m., to out-of-towners asking w...

February 12, 2009

Embrace the Midnight Munch

By Derek Mead

Drinking is ruining my life. No, it’s not the booze that’s to blame. The beer, spirits and bum wines are all treating me very well, actually. It’s the god damned drunk munchies that are sending me down ...

February 12, 2009

Try Your Hand at Frisbee Golf

By Jimmy Fremgen

Well, it’s that time again. Time to buckle down and get your shit together in order to actually pass those classes you’ve been ignoring. Yep, it’s midterm time. Some of you may scoff at the suggestion t...

February 12, 2009

Sex and Morality Should Mix

By Steven Begakis

Apparently it’s Sexual Responsibility Week, but the irony must be lost on those well-intentioned people who had the idea for such an event. “Sexual responsibility” seems to imply that a college student,...

February 11, 2009

Making Time

By The Weatherhuman

Seeing as I've been in and out of midterms these past few weeks, I've learned something really important: Sleep is overrated.

February 11, 2009

This V-Day, Try a Three-Way

By Jenni Perez

Remember those shoebox mailboxes you made for Valentine’s Day in elementary school? Remember how you would stay up past 8 o’clock the night before, sorting boxes of candy hearts for each cutie in your classro...