Opinion

October 19, 2006

Column on Text Messaging Strikes Out on Main Points

By system

Adam Wenger’s criticism of text messaging (“Vibration Celebration Inappropriate,” Daily Nexus, Oct. 16, 2006) that people lose conversational skills by relying on text instead of talking to communicate ...

October 19, 2006

Think

By system

October 18, 2006

To Wong Foo

By system

Oh, Wesley Snipes, say it ain

October 18, 2006

Initiative Supports UCSB Community

By Jared Goldschen

Wow! There have been so many accusations and concerns about the Students' Initiative that I thought I'd help clear some things up. First off, what exactly is the Students' Initiative? Well, it's a campuswide effort to in...

October 18, 2006

Technology Bytes: Proposition Begins to Restrict Civil Liberties

By Matt Suedkamp

It is sad to see it happening, but the United States of America is becoming increasingly Orwellian in its use of technology to invade our privacy. The implementation is slow, but it is happening. Day by day, more and mor...

October 18, 2006

Keep the Jungle Tame for Wild, Clean Sex

By Jenny Paradise

The scream from the bathroom could have woken the dead. My friend sat horrified on the toilet holding what could only be described as a bright yellow deflated balloon - which she had just pulled out of her vagina.

October 18, 2006

Drinker’s Digest: Blacking Out Provides a Way to Test One’s Detective Skills

By Ray Collins

"Let's get naked and start the revolution!" I yelled, while waving a double-sided pink dildo around in the air. I pushed the up and down buttons on the FT elevators to ensure that any elevator passing the fifth floor wou...

October 18, 2006

Prop 90 Tricks All Voters

By Marc McGinnes

We have seen what a costly and twisted mess can be made by a bunch of arrogant and conniving neo-cons if they are allowed to run amuck.

October 18, 2006

Bhakti Yoga Club Finds OSL Food Rules Unjust

By system

I am disappointed with the portrayal of the Office of Student Life/Lies as impartial administrators of the law in the article ("Food Law Ties Yoga Club in a Knot," Daily Nexus, Oct. 13, 2006).

October 18, 2006

David Horowitz’s Lecture Should Not Be Tolrated

By system

The first amendment of our constitution states, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech."

October 18, 2006

Think

By system

October 17, 2006

Whoroscopes

By system

The 'human is writing this entry last night.

October 17, 2006

Five Former Members of A.S. Speak Out

By Adam Graff, Scott Talkov

Under normal circumstances, it takes a lot to entice a former Gaucho to write in to the Nexus. Under normal circumstances, we'd be reluctant to waste your time and valuable sex column space giving you our opinions about ...

October 17, 2006

Students’ Initiative Fliers Misrepresent Allocations

By system

I'm sure by now you have noticed all the hot pink posters with the organizations that support and will benefit from the Students' Initiative. We were shocked to see that our organization, Take Back the Night, was listed ...

October 17, 2006

A.S. Boards Bullied Into Supporting Fall Initiative

By system

By now, I'm sure (or hoping) you've all heard of the Student Initiative, which, if passed, will increase the Associated Students' lock-in fee by a flat $100. But what you probably haven't seen littered all over campus is...

October 16, 2006

Vibration Celebration Inappropiate

By Adam Wenger

You're sitting in lecture, trying desperately to stay awake. You keep looking at the clock but it seems to have stopped moving. Suddenly your leg vibrates once and you spring to life. You automatically know someone has s...