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Hello Goodbye

OK, so you know that thing you do when you pass someone on the way to class? Like, someone you don't really know on a first-name basis but have met a couple times before? Yeah, you give them that head...
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Breaking Up Before Holidays

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. O...
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Breaking Up Before Holidays

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 ...
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Octo-Mom


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Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

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 Sexu...
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President’s Lay

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.
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Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

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 &#...
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Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

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 ignoran...
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Surprise! Sex Can Be Both Safe and Great

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 thin...
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UC Librarians Deserve Fair, Competitive Wages

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 sta...
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Small Things Can Both Pleasure and Pester

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...
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No Valentines for Clinton

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 tha...
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Embrace the Midnight Munch

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 ...
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Try Your Hand at Frisbee Golf

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...
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Sex and Morality Should Mix

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 tha...
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