Opinion

October 25, 2006

Drinker’s Digest: Appreciate I.V.’s Secret Halloween Pleasures

By Ray Collins

Halloween weekend is coming up, and we all know what to expect. Over 30,000 people from all over the country come to our Isla Vista community looking to get wasted, bone down and have an all around great time.

October 25, 2006

Think

By Staff

October 24, 2006

Technology Bytes: Open Your Heart and Let the Linux In

By Matt Suedkamp

Arrrgghh!!! There be pirates a' swimmin' in the ink here! But, seriously, how many of you have pirated something before, like games, operating systems, Office and DVDs? Aren't you tired of even having to pay for those th...

October 24, 2006

Finding “The Man” Is a Highly Difficult Task

By Henry Sarria

Growing up in my old hometown of Hialeah, Florida, complaints of "The Man keeping us down" were a common thing. According to the providers of the tales - mostly of the hippie or militant persuasion -"The Man" was some ri...

October 24, 2006

Liberty Belle: Censorship Should Not Be Tolerated

By Courtney Stevens

The sparks of controversy that ignited over the recent visit of distinguished political analyst and author David Horowitz really got me thinking. The more I thought, the more I worried. The irony of one reader's insisten...

October 24, 2006

Column About I.V. Brothels Is Insensitive and Not Funny

By Staff

Thank you for publishing yesterday's opinion piece by Zach Phillips ("Isla Vista Brothel To Curb Rapists," Daily Nexus, Oct. 23, 2006).

October 24, 2006

Immigration Column Fails To Capture True Welfare Facts

By Staff

We are writing in response to Courtney Stevens's editorial about immigration policies ("Liberty Belle: Immigration Policies Are Too Lenient," Daily Nexus, Oct. 20, 2006).

October 20, 2006

Liberty Belle: Immigration Policies Are Too Lenient

By Courtney Stevens

Do you ever sit around, maybe in the slow stretch between your X-rated AIM chats with young boys and cashing in the millions you made from your fraudulent land sales and just spend time thinking about ways to screw over ...

October 20, 2006

Passing Gas: Isla Vista Brothel to Curb Rapists

By Zach Phillips

In front of the Women's Center this past week, "I Want a Truce" campaigners used aggressive tabling, free T-shirts, non-binding pledges and, most importantly, smiles to squelch the inner rapist of countless potential sex...

October 20, 2006

Cultural Greek Finds Greek Label Misused

By Vasilis Vlahiotis ---

First of all, I have no problem with fraternities and sororities. I believe they are good clubs for networking, meeting people and forming lasting relationships. The problem I do have is the fact that they refer to thems...

October 20, 2006

By Adam Wenger

Suing people is awesome. Remember when that poor lady sued McDonalds after she spilt their boiling hot coffee on herself? She made millions! And I don't know about you, but at the time I was so upset I was ready to boyco...

October 20, 2006

Freedom Territory: Hippies Should Be Kept From Polls

By Eric Hedlund

The last time that a large group of stupid, drunken hippies, like the fine readers of this newspaper, forgot to vote, our country passed the 18th Amendment, resulting in alcohol prohibition. Frankly, you hippies never se...