Opinion
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 Stude...
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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 pol...
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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.
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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 stronge...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 I...
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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 peo...
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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, yo...
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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 fin...
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People are always asking me, "Jordan, what's globalization about? How will it affect me? Will I be outsourced?"
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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 w...
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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 wit...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
