Opinion
Point of fact: glasses don’t make you look smart. Well, not if you’re sitting in lecture in board shorts and a tank top, texting away to your brosephs about what a crazy night you had last...
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This week’s escape involved a wee bit of a story that centers around a mystical man. Our protagonist rises from relative Midwestern obscurity to become a mediocre sportscaster, an actor and then...
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As a UCSB alumnus, I keep up to date with the Isla Vista news by reading the Nexus online. It’s awesome to see that the rafting craze that hit Del Playa Drive during my senior year in 2005 has t...
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Imagine contracting an STD. Imagine having to inform your recent sexual partners that they, too, might have an STD. If you are not the type to ever tell your recent partners, imagine you’re not ...
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Have you heard about this whole emergency provision to ban drinking on the beach, just because it got out of hand once? It's frightening business, but at least it makes sense.
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Over the last couple days, I have received a large amount of texts, calls and messages asking me what I thought about Thursday’s edition of the Nexus. Of course I knew they were all referring to...
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Between literature-holding candidates in the Arbor, huge signs on the bike path, and seemingly endless Facebook invitations, the campus could not be any more fed up with Associated Students elections....
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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...
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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 sufferin...
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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 unders...
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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 incl...
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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 th...
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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 wome...
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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 propo...
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"Holes"
"The Sandlot"
"Goodwill Hunting"
"How to Train Your Dragon"
"Dead Poets Society"
"The Karate Kid"
"Ladybird"
"Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"The Edge of Seventeen"
"Up"
"Mid90s"
"Little Women"
