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Respect Your Partner and You Won’t Regret Getting It

October 13, 2008 by Alana Allekotte

Editor, Daily Nexus, I’ve got nothing against anonymous sex but I want to make sure that the freshman who read Jason Hunter’s column (“A Pack of Pointers for Polite Pumping,” D...
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Forget the Man, This Sexy Lingerie is for Me Baby

October 13, 2008 by Dee Tracy

Editor, Daily Nexus In response to Jenni Perez’s column, (“Lick Up Seductive Lingerie” Daily Nexus, October 8) she says: “all we really ask for is acknowledgment of our effort ...
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It Tingles!

October 10, 2008 by Staff

Deborah Anderson of Boston University Medical Center was awarded an “Ig Nobel” research prize for discovering that Coca-Cola kills sperm. Apparently, women were using it in contraceptive d...
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It’s All in Your Head: A Look at Mental Health

October 10, 2008 by Lilie Kasim and Alisa Chester

Have you ever met someone and after spending five minutes talking to them you think to yourself, "Oh my god that girl is fuckin' crazy." Or did you ever walk down the street when you were little askin...
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A Pack of Pointers for Polite Pumping

October 10, 2008 by Jason D. Hunter

Before I start, I would just like to add that in no way do I consider myself an expert, or even a guru on the subject, but simply a guy who lives in a house with 40 guys and observes his fair share. W...
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Dressing Like a Stylish Hottie Is No Sweat

October 10, 2008 by Claire Wei

I love fashion. I've loved it since the age of two when I saw my first fashion show. I learned how to hand sew when I was seven and got my sewing machine six years later. Since age 14, I've designed m...
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40 Ounces to Competition

October 9, 2008 by Derek Mead

With parties, kickbacks, shindigs, cocktail hours and box socials going on seven nights a week in I.V., it's pathetically easy to string together an epic bender of intervention-worthy proportions, and...
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If You Don’t Want to Vote, Don’t

October 9, 2008 by Jesse Reynolds

Every four years we have this wonderful thing called the Presidential Election. A time to dust off the old biases, dig a deep trench and tell the other side how wrong they are. This is a time I love, ...
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Gaviota Coast Needs Saving

October 9, 2008 by Quentin Gee

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is preparing to vote Monday, Oct. 13 on whether or not to save Naples from the private gated community of more than 70 mansions that an Orange County deve...
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Putting Scary Halloween Rumors to Rest

October 9, 2008 by Mark Signa

Halloween is coming fast and, depending on your point of view, it’s the greatest thing for students at UCSB since the discovery that Google can actually be used for researching assignments and n...
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Lick Up Seductive Lingerie

October 8, 2008 by Jenni Perez

We all have sexual pet peeves. I'd like to share one of mine with a charming little anecdote. It was well into a school night before an 8 a.m. class. I had barely stepped into my frumpiest PJs when my...
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Obama Gives America a High

October 8, 2008 by Jordan Pokross

If there's one thing that nobody's talked about this election cycle, it's weed.
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Health Care Is An Issue of Ethics, Not of Profits

October 8, 2008 by Marc Duquette

In response to Mr. Bannigan's assertion that Sen. John McCain's competition-based health care plan will benefit our country ("Best of Health Care Result of Healthy Competition" Daily Nexus, Oct. 6): A...
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Prop 2 Protects Animals, Decreases Toxins Consumed

October 8, 2008 by Andrew Dunn

I am writing in support of Carly Jo Hann's article endorsing Prop. 2 ("Proposition 2: Protect That Which You Eat," Daily Nexus, Oct. 7). Hann clearly explains the central goal of the measure: to reduc...
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He Said, She Said: Freshmen: Friends or Foes?

October 8, 2008 by Elliott Rosenfeld

Saturday morning, when a lonely freshman girl wandered into my kitchen on a whim to introduce herself and complain about the dozens of water balloons that have struck her since move-in, I decided that...
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