Opinion

August 30, 2008

GEs: Finish or Forget’em?

By Staff

When I went off to college three years ago, my brother gave me two words of advice: Don't get "the clap" and get your GEs out of the way as quickly as possible.

August 5, 2008

Weather

By Staff

A correction? Damnit, you guys. We only have three issues in the summer and, of course, you fuck one up. That means the Nexus totally sucked 33 percent of the time in summer 2008. FAIL.

August 5, 2008

GOP Ship Doomed to Sink

By Michael Gately

The Republican Party is on the verge of a steep and protracted descent into irrelevance, and it's going to take a mix of current party leaders and young upstarts dedicated enough to right the sinking ship.

August 5, 2008

Classes, Family Housing Desperately Need More Funds

By Staff

I am writing to express my disappointment in the university's allocation of funds -- most notably, that eyesore at the freeway entrance to the school. Not only could that money, wherever it came from, have been better sp...

August 5, 2008

What’s Your Problem?

By Staff

“Sam’s To Go is out of Miller Lite.” -Manny Ruiz (fourth-year law & society major) “Last night, a guy threw a beer bottle at me then ran away.” -Brian Hanney (SBCC student) “They ...

July 15, 2008

Friends Enable Good Times All the Time

By Derek Mead

Six years into my drinking career, I was getting pretty close to shelving the bottle. I mean, getting smashed for weeks on end was really starting to get boring. I've done everything from escaping a hillbilly party by dr...

July 15, 2008

Weather

By The Weatherhuman

Imagine for a moment that you are the luckiest person in the world and you are my roommate's summer subleaser.

July 15, 2008

America Vs. Europe

By Nicki Arnold and Adam Wenger Columnists

Coming home from a five-month sojourn in Florence, Italy, I had a lot of emotions running through me as I boarded my trans-Atlantic flight.

July 15, 2008

Coastal Fund Cleans Up I.V.’s Mess

By Nick Kennedy

In response to the article, "Student Cleans Up Isla Vista" (Daily Nexus, June 25), it's easy to see we have a huge trash issue, but we also have the means to help curb the problem.

June 25, 2008

Summer Serves Sizzling Stoner Sites

By Alex Coffman

Ah, summertime -- the beautiful sunshine, the beach full of bronzed bodies, no school work and plenty of free time for those lazy, stoned afternoons. Obviously, I don't have to describe the exquisite utopia that is I.V. ...

June 25, 2008

Summer Weather

By Staff

Happy summer, kiddos. The season brings a lot of awesome things, like sun, fun and lots of buns.

June 25, 2008

We All Love to Talk About Sex, Baby

By Jenni Perez

"Never kiss and tell." If your upbringing was anything like mine, your grandmother ensured a place for this advice in the back of your mind, right next to "always wash behind your ears."

June 5, 2008

Turds and Tulips

By Staff

Colorful, rainbow tulips to the Supreme Court of California for finally making gay marriage legal. No more “Brokeback Mountain” jokes, we promise. Rude, ignorant turds to David Horowitz for singling out the M...

June 5, 2008

Farewell, abridged.

By Staff

A correction on my final day, what are the f-ing odds? This sucks, but now that my reign is over, I’ve gotta ask: How the hell did I not get fired or cause a protest? I mean, I was pretty damn offensive, including ...

June 5, 2008

The ‘Human Gives Up Yearlong Weather Reign

By The Weatherhuman

Who is the Weatherhuman? It’s one of life’s great mysteries, right up there with the fact that the word “lisp” has an “s” in it and why it took the food industry so long to invent bake...

June 2, 2008