Opinion

April 17, 2006

Value Utility From Wealth and Work

By Colin Marshall

It's an awful truth that, alas, my journalistic scruples cannot ignore: Some majors get more respect than others. As a former disciple of communication, I know what it is to feel deep, nagging shame about one's coursewor...

April 17, 2006

5th Annual IAM Educates Students About Stopping Rape

By Carl Barnes

This week, Students Stopping Rape is putting on its 5th annual It Affects Me campaign. As in the past four years, we will be giving out bright blue T-shirts with this slogan emblazoned on it in white. What affects us, yo...

April 17, 2006

Council Member Criticizes Nexus For Inaccurate Quote

By JESSE BAKER

I was justifiably horrified when I opened the Nexus last Thursday to find an unforgivable misrepresentation of the facts. In the article ("Leggies Prepare for Election, Debate Porn Nation Funding," Daily Nexus, Apr. 13),...

April 14, 2006

Passion Offends Believers

By Scott Roney

Easter is upon us, which means that it is time for my annual viewing of Mel Gibson's controversial blockbuster, "The Passion of the Christ." It is not exactly the sort of film one "enjoys," and so this marks only the thi...

April 14, 2006

Lovable Loser

By system

In homage to Playboy recently dubbing UCSB the second best party in the nation, the 'human will now author only its second best box, ever.

April 14, 2006

Let Middle East Elect Leaders

By Eliezer Sherman

This week in the Middle East: political chaos, democratic turmoil and further tension in the Palestinian/Israeli relationship. ... Surprise, surprise. A couple that has been involved in a tiresome, violent and extended d...

April 14, 2006

Global Gag Rule Restricts Countries’ Healthcare

By Courtney Weaver

Most of us have long forgotten about the first days of President Bush's first term. We've been so distracted by his abysmal record on foreign affairs from Afghanistan to Iraq to North Korea, that we now need to be remind...

April 14, 2006

Student Challenges Others to Change Oil Dependency

By April Capil

I wish the end of oil were as simple as everyone riding their bikes and walking to work. I wish I could say - with certainty - that it will be a smooth, brief transition.

April 13, 2006

Serve Poetry Justice

By Nick Pasto

A friend of mine recently pointed out that the vast majority of my Nexus articles contain alarming amounts of pessimism, perversion and comic violence. I promptly kicked him in the dingleberries and informed him that his...

April 13, 2006

A Human Void

By system

What the fuck ever happened to Espresso Roma? Didn't that joint have a liquor license?

April 13, 2006

Vote for Out Campus’ Greener Future

By Kelly Burns

Everyone take a moment to reminisce about this weekend's celebration of Earth Day... You know, the warm sun gently warming your pale winter skin, friends sharing picnic blankets, girls twirling in long flowing skirts and...

April 12, 2006

Open Opportunity’s Door

By Lois Capps

After years of reckless tax cutting, chronic under funding of critical programs and record annual deficits, it would seem to be time for a new direction for our country's spending priorities.

April 12, 2006

PBR and Peanuts

By system

The 'human has been a bit depressed to see that the spot once occupied by cult-favorite, Menehunes, now held by Saigon Express, isn't getting much more business than the 'hunes did.

April 12, 2006

Nipples Crave Delicate Attention

By Nina Anthony

Everyone loves breasts. Male or female, whenever a chick with a great rack walks by, our eyes are immediately drawn to them. Women love their breasts, and I can bet that every man feels jealous that we get to hold them a...

April 12, 2006

A.S. Campaign Litters Campus With Signs of Superficiality

By Kristen Richer

Our campus looks like it's the victim of a goddamn Apple store explosion. And for once, it's not the armies of iPod-listening, head-bobbing, not-paying-attention-on-the-bike-path drones that have me annoyed.

April 12, 2006

Dark Side’s Baron Wastes Time Attacking University

By JOEY RUTHERFORD

In response to James Baron's article ("Take a Step in the Dark," Daily Nexus, April 10, 2006), I couldn't help but write in to say that his attempts to vilify the UCSB administration and I.V. community are both desolatel...