Opinion
After the first week of the quarter has finally come to an end, some of you may already be sick of drinking the typical cheap alcoholic beverages that can be found all over Isla Vista.
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Without a football team our school spirit is crippled. Instead of raucous tailgates, we have Freebirds. Instead of a stadium seething with pride, we have a street -Del Playa Drive - seeping with grime...
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Everyone states that the media has a liberal bias, but I have yet to hear this bias on issues that matter to me - and I am sure to the rest of us. Several weeks before the November election, someone a...
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Higher Education in America has floated lazily down the river of complacency and emerged in a sea of mediocrity, where it is presently being pulled by a strong current of denial toward a steep waterfa...
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The Weathermate and I had a lively debate last night. The 'mate contended that men uncomfortable discussing menstruation and saying words such as "tampon" do great disservice to women;
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Now that we are all in college, I think it is time that the majority of you got an education. Not the education where you sleep through class, playing sudoku and doing crosswords while the professor d...
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I tend to follow the news at UCSB regularly. Since my UCSB diploma has afforded me the opportunity to have gainful employment, I now pay an abhorrent amount in taxes to the state of California.
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As a UCSB alumna, a journalist and a former Nexite, I was disgusted upon hearing that members of the Associated Students Legislative Council were calling for a boycott of the Daily Nexus ("A.S. Mulls ...
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I would like to submit this as a response to Ray Collins's drinking column ("Mexican Partying Is Worth the Trip, Hombre," Daily Nexus, Jan. 10). He blatantly ripped of the material of one of my favori...
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Anyone who attended UCSB last quarter probably remembers the A.S. Students' Initiative. At the time, we were told that the fee increases outlined were entirely necessary. Even at the time, however, it...
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Usually the victors write the history books, but in the case of Saddam Hussein's execution, his is recorded by video footage. The moving picture camera is the whirring scribe of our time - a mechanica...
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A student goes home and shows an A- grade to his father.
"Are you proud of me?"
"Very proud," the father responds. "Minus."
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
