Opinion

October 1, 2008

Nader’s Speech Opens Minds

By Nader Heidari

I woke up sometime Sunday afternoon to attend to some serious business. I went to go see the man somewhat responsible for giving Starbucks employees a free joke when I tell them my name during my purchase of a certain bl...

October 1, 2008

Readers Come to Isla Vista’s Defense

By Carla Perez

Editor, Daily Nexus, After reading Max Bottaro’s column (“Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk,” Daily Nexus, Sept. 28), I literally had a headache. Should I address the racism, the misogyny, the homophobia, t...

October 1, 2008

Readers Come to Isla Vista’s Defense

By Janelle Mungo

Editor, Daily Nexus, It is unfortunate that Max Bottaro’s last two years in I.V. didn’t live up to the expectations he had (“Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk,” Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). What is even mo...

October 1, 2008

Readers Come to Isla Vista’s Defense

By Amanda Maffett

Editor, Daily Nexus, My letter is in response to “Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk” by Max Battaro (Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). Dearest Battaro, do you have an ounce of forethought in your wee little mind, or did al...

October 1, 2008

Readers Come to Isla Vista’s Defense

By Andrew Dunn

I am writing in response to the article “Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk” by Max Bottaro (Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). Bottaro’s first complaint, that police officers are increasingly harsh in their treatment ...

October 1, 2008

Readers Come to Isla Vista’s Defense

By Carly Jo Hann

Editor, Daily Nexus, Wow. I’m saddened that someone could be so proud to spew blatant homophobia, sexism, racism and downright idiocy on our campus (“Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk,” Daily Nexus, Sept. 2...

September 30, 2008

Buy Bitchin’ Bongs

By Alex Coffman

The smooth alluring aroma of fresh incense encompasses you. The light shining off the smooth glass puts a gleam in your eye. Is that the one over there? Leaning closer to the case, as if being drawn in by gravitational f...

September 30, 2008

Fatty Dolphins

By Staff

How do you guys like the Weather this week? Pretty random, eh? Sunny one day, foggy the next, with no real discernable pattern. That's mostly because I'm confused as hell right now. Why? Because even dolphins are going o...

September 30, 2008

Bailout Plans Are Welfare for Rich

By Steven Begakis

The frustration of the New Orleans victims was angrily directed at President Bush, voiced in the demands for immediate federal action. In other words, incapable local political structures complained that the central gove...

September 30, 2008

Left Should Rethink Market Ideas

By Zac Gates

Amid the luring reminders of the left that capitalism is evil, wealthy entrepreneurs are greedy, and George W. Bush is a big fat idiot, there is one beacon of light that leads me away from the sycophantic saps: basic eco...

September 30, 2008

Let the Tortillas Fly for Gaucho Soccer

By Michael Baranowski

Let me begin by saying I am not a member of the Locos leadership. I am in the band, but do not hold a leadership role. I don't cheer on my Gauchos to have something to put on a résumé, make friends, or give me ...

September 29, 2008

Isla Vista Has Lost Its Spunk

By Max Bottaro

I don’t know if I am the only senior who has noticed this, but UCSB is growing a pink candy shell, and it’s making me nauseous. My freshman year, Halloween was pretty wild. Sophomore year it was meh. Last yea...

September 29, 2008

Facts Behind the Fiscal Crisis

By Steven Mooradian

As you may already know, our Congress is about to vote on legislation granting the United States Dept. of the Treasury the authority to buy up over $700 billion in assets, consisting mostly of subprime mortgages. The pri...

September 29, 2008

Let’s Talk About (Safe) Sex, Baby

By Amisha G. DeYoung-Dominguez

The first time I went to Planned Parenthood, I had just turned 16. My parents had just found out that I had started having sex, and since they figured that there wasn’t much they could do about my sex life (besides...

September 29, 2008

Conservatives Care Only for Money

By Elizabeth Flynn

Editor, Daily Nexus, I am writing to respond to the article entitled “Hybrids Not Worth It in the Long Run” by Shaeffer Bannigan (Daily Nexus, Sept 18). I want to say that Shaeffer did a terrific job of demon...

September 29, 2008

Media Avoids McCain’s Infidelity

By Neil Murphy

Editor, Daily Nexus, When Sen. John McCain came back from Vietnam to find his swimsuit model wife horribly disfigured, overweight and five inches shorter from a car accident, he spent the next seven years sleeping with o...