Opinion

April 6, 2006

Students’ Inelastic Demand Helps Textbook Prices Soar

By Colin Marshall

Aside from attending class, what pains college students more than spending money? Unfortunately, our lifestyles tend to demand it with some frequency, often resulting in cash hemorrhages that severely outstrip our income...

April 6, 2006

Leave Your Fashion Sins Behind You in America’s Playground

By Caitlin Cassady

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas due to the fact that there is usually a lot of alcohol consumed - at any given time through out the day - which leads to some fantastic and sometimes embarrassing stories.

April 5, 2006

Shitty Weather

By system

One day after enduring countless diatribes towards the 'human for it's untimely rain, yesterday's weather-like movements were not much different.

April 5, 2006

Lean Back and Climax

By Nina Anthony

Stress. It's something that will be present all our lives, as we continue on to grad school or jobs, as we attempt to rear a family, as we try to make a little niche for ourselves somewhere out there in the "real" world....

April 5, 2006

Stray From the Flock With Rosaritos

By Ben Coffee

I feel so weak. You see, last night I gave in - I succumbed to my very own personal boycott. I had successfully boycotted Freebirds for over eight months. I had decided to boycott them because, quite simply, they suck.

April 4, 2006

Wet Tuesday

By system

Apparently, everyone hated me yesterday. Why the masses of UCSB voiced their distaste for my offerings remains beyond the 'human's comprehension.

April 4, 2006

Politics Saturate Hollywood Thriller

By Matt Cappiello

My father and I share many pastimes: We like to get loaded, we like to argue and we like the cinema. Over Spring Break, we shared an important father-son bonding experience - getting kicked out of a zombie movie while th...

April 4, 2006

House Tackles Immigration Issues

By Andrea Angus

On Monday, March 27, 40,000 high school students staged a walkout across Southern California. It seemed that most reporters who covered the story touched on the idea that perhaps many of the students did not quite unders...

April 4, 2006

Measure D Punishes Public Transportation Users

By Kelly Burns Kelsi Boyle

If you are concerned about traffic, congestion, pollution and the future sustainability of Santa Barbara County, it's time to wake up. This week may be the most critical time for public transportation in half a century.

April 4, 2006

Students Fly to DC to Discuss Iran and Hamas

By Ariel Diamond

Several students from the on-campus group, American Students for Israel (ASI), participated in a nation-wide American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., from March 5 to 7.

April 4, 2006

Call to Recycle the Nexus To Help Save Some Trees

By MIKE HOFSTETTER

Like many students here at UCSB, I wake up each day bleary-eyed and groggy, rolling out of bed only to roll off to class. I hate my early morning lectures, but I get by. You might ask why. Well, because of the Daily Nexu...

April 3, 2006

Avoid Clicker Futility

By Tahnee Baker

For anyone who has ever taken Econ 1 at UCSB, I'm confident they will agree that passing asteroid-sized kidney stones is preferable to ever taking the class again. Economics is perhaps one of the driest subjects known to...

April 3, 2006

Let There Be Light, Goddamnit!

By system

What a tease the weather is. The day before spring quarter starts, it - the cardinal of all spring quarter sins - rains?

April 3, 2006

Howland Haunts Athletic Director’s Coaching Choice

By Larry Yells

I'm sure glad UCSB Director of Athletics Gary Cunningham wasn't involved in the hiring of Herb Kroemer, David Gross, Finn Kydland or even Walter Kohn. Had he been, I'm certain those talented Nobel Prize winners would hav...

April 3, 2006

Right to Protest Funerals Lies Under First Amendment

By Alex Coffman

I completely agreed with Camerin Smith's article "Phelps Dishonors Soldiers by Protesting Funerals" (Daily Nexus, March 8), right up until he said "I urge reasonable politicians, left or right, to propose legislation tha...

March 10, 2006

Civil War Rips Uganda Apart

By Laura Holt

In 1986, after a number of brutal and violent regimes in which numerous atrocities were committed, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) led by Yoweri Museveni entered Uganda's capital city, Kampala, and seized control.