Opinion

February 13, 2008

V-Day Party Fun Includes Risque Acts

By Staff

So over the holiday break, my dad got my mom one of those VHS-to-DVD recorders. We were watching old home videos of me riding my tricycle, picking on my little sister and running around the house naked after every bath I...

February 13, 2008

Research Required Before Student Passes Judgment

By Staff

I would like to take this chance to both educate the UCSB community and blast Larri Gregg and her cohorts for spreading simplistic and inaccurate views ("Unexpected Campus Missile Projects Shock Student," Daily Nexus, Fe...

February 13, 2008

Unfair Accusations Bestowed Upon Raytheon and UC Labs

By Staff

Larri Gregg's editorial last week ("Unexpected Campus Missile Projects Shock Student," Daily Nexus, Feb. 8) unfairly groups all defense projects together as "weapons" and as tools of George Bush's policy, when nothing co...

February 12, 2008

Bush, Dick and the Hummer

By The Weatherhuman

Look I'm not going to get in the way of today's planned protest, but I want to make this very, very clear: Stay the hell away from the 217 this year.

February 12, 2008

Partisan Strife To Undo Democrats

By Staff

The Democrats sure have an interesting plan to bring about change in America. With the primaries more than halfway complete, now is the time when candidates should gear up to put their party's strongest candidate forward...

February 12, 2008

Online Survey Offers Readers Free Swag

By Staff

Art Hoppe, the late star columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote decades of satire renowned by readers of that venerable paper for its wit and spot-on insight.

February 12, 2008

Think!

By Staff

February 11, 2008

What Part of the Chicken is the Popcorn?

By Staff

Those morons at PETA have done it again, this time fighting congressional legislation that would make fried chicken the official picnic food of Kentucky. See what I did there, three of the last eight words of that senten...

February 11, 2008

Campus Clans Thrive in Cyberspace

By Staff

Back in the day, when we were 11 or 12 - you may not have even hit the double-digits yet - we pre-pubescent techies discovered the virtual world of America Online. Because we hadn't experienced real Internet providers th...

February 11, 2008

Reevaluate Reasons for Protesting Iraq

By Staff

On Feb. 15th, 2007, I participated in an event that I will never forget. Thousands of UCSB students joined me on a march to the 217 freeway in a protest against the war in Iraq. I was one of those people shouting, "What ...

February 11, 2008

Think

By Simon Estrada

February 8, 2008

Mind, Body & Soul: Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word

By David Rabie

The average college student sleeps about seven hours per night, while the typical requirement for adults is eight hours per night. Obviously, everybody knows the atypical person who functions just fine on four hours per ...

February 8, 2008

Wednesday Stumped

By Staff

I usually try not to crack on fellow Nexites, but I can’t help but take offense with the latest “Wednesday Hump.” If you’re writing about attractive presidential candidates, you can’t say th...

February 8, 2008

Globalized Economy Benefits Americans

By Jordan Pokross

People are always asking me, "Jordan, what's globalization about? How will it affect me? Will I be outsourced?"

February 8, 2008

Decrease in Violence Proves Nothing

By Eric Goldman

If you were so "fortunate" as to see George Bush's final State of the Union address or you've been "lucky" enough to have caught bits of Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz. recent campaign speeches, you are well aware that the "...

February 8, 2008

Unexpected Campus Missile Projects Shock Student

By Larri Gregg

I remember my "oh shit!" moment vividly. It was in the spring of last year, and I was walking to class on a warm sunny day. A fellow student stopped me on the main path that passes by Storke Tower with a flyer and this p...