Opinion
Now is the time to care about local politics. As we enter into an exciting presidential year and become engaged in national and international politics, we also have the opportunity to make an impact o...
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“I heard the Greek Council eats orphans (they’re like veal … all locked up and malnourished).” -dailysuxass “Gossip Web Site Angers Readers, Raises Questions” By To...
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The debate over file sharing on college campuses should be addressed as an issue where filtering content is harmful to the circulation of cultural and knowledge forms. We need to recognize peer-to-pee...
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The solar cycle, along with glacier cycles and ocean variability, undoubtedly affects the Earth's climate. The same goes for variations in the Earth's orbit and rotation. These effects can be charted ...
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I can’t help but be disgusted by the story about a 6-year-old who was suspended from kindergarten last week after showing up with a Mohawk. I can see suspending someone for growing a mullet, but...
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How many times, over the course of your college career, have you surfed to your online banking Web site to check your cash stores and instead found a giant monster – in the form of a ruthless ov...
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A woman who teaches DUI rehab classes in Florida was pulled over on Monday and arrested for… wait for it, wait for it… DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE! Only in America, baby! I can’t bel...
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In an environmentally conscious environment like UCSB, the issue of global warming seems front and center among the problems afflicting the world today. American politicians, especially the three pres...
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I am nearly 5 feet 2 inches tall. Being petite has its advantages: People think I'm cute, I can pass for 12-years-old and pay child's fare for ski lifts, and if there is a large crowd watching some so...
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Answer me this: What would you do for 52 days in Isla Vista if you had to live on terms forbidding you from leaving the house after 10 at night - if you were lucky - and reporting where you were 24 ho...
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This past August, I moved into a house with three other girls I had never met. Wanting to make new friends as an entering transfer student at UCSB, I reluctantly answered a "roommate wanted" poster ta...
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You know, Zac Gates, your most recent column ("Good Sense Hinders Ability to Obamasm," Daily Nexus, Feb. 26) really takes me back to my freshman year. Conservative leanings, taking everything at face ...
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Time spent sleeping equals one-third. Time spent dreaming approaches infinity. Where would you be without infinity?
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Color me unsurprised at the news that former television whorebag Mischa Barton was charged with four misdemeanors on Tuesday, including DUI and possession of marijuana.
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
