Opinion

February 24, 2006

Recycle All Those Red Cups

By Aaron von Boer

Attention UCSB students: Ever seen one of those shiny red plastic cups before? You know, the ones that allow you to practice geometric configurations on an almost nightly basis.

February 24, 2006

Distinctive Style Being Destroyed By Pop Culture

By Andrew Sweat

Are we just sitting around numbingly sucking everything into our souls that is being displayed by TV, magazines and celebrities? What happened to personal style truly meaning an original, personal style?

February 24, 2006

The Readers Voice

By Josh Rodine

I'm afraid Mr. Aduba has it all wrong in his article ("Racism Should Be Judged By Actions, Not Deliberations," Daily Nexus, Feb. 23). There's nothing "subjective" about racism.

February 23, 2006

Aberhuman and Fitch

By system

The 'human thinks that winter quarter sucks. The homework sucks, the lack of baseball sucks and the weather sucks.

February 23, 2006

Curb the Binge-Purge Cycle

By Nick Pasto

I've been going to school for about 18 years. You don't last 18 years in the cruel world of academia without learning some serious tricks of the student trade. One of my favorite high school techniques was to stare inten...

February 23, 2006

Gaucho Economics: Coffee Giant Capitalizes On Demands

By Colin Marshall

Though safely ensconced in Santa Barbara, the land of the nearly perpetual 65-degree day, we still can't escape the vagaries of the seasons. The delusions held by our friends in flip-flops and shorts notwithstanding, it'...

February 23, 2006

Lincoln Has His Logs So Let’s Just Forget About the Penny

By David Fuad

I want it gone. It's outdated, it's worthless and it jumped the shark 10 years ago. It's small and brown and it's not a midget UPS driver. Ladies and gentlemen, I, David Fuad, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do...

February 23, 2006

Racism Should Be Judges By Actions, Not Deliberations

By Lance Aduba

For those of you who didn't know, or for those of you who forgot, this month is Black History Month. While contemplating what I would do in commemoration of this month, I stumbled across a dilemma, a dilemma that is prev...

February 22, 2006

Dirty Dilemmas Done on the Desktop

By Nina Anthony

I met my boss this weekend. It was awkward at first because he knew me, and trying to play off the fact that I was at a loss for who the fuck he was, I called him by a bizarre name and pretended that I recognized him.

February 22, 2006

Revenge of the ‘human

By system

Alas, the Nexus is competent again! Let the mending process between the 'human and the Nexus begin.

February 22, 2006

He Said: Mixing Rocks and Ice Can Only Mean Olympic Greatness

By Matt Dozier

There are certain moments in the Winter Olympics that truly embody the spirit of international competition - the gut-wrenching pace of a short-track, speed skating final, the grace of a perfectly landed quadruple axel an...

February 22, 2006

She Said: Ice Dancing Spins Circles Around Olympic Competition

By Kristen Richer

There are things in this world that just seem like they belong together: Root beer and vanilla ice cream, Christina Aguilera and heavy face makeup, beer and ping-pong balls, herds of freshmen and Del Playa Drive and - my...

February 22, 2006

United States, Israel Must Now Watch Where They Step

By Joel Furman

The Balkan powder keg of today's world, the Middle East, has seemingly inched closer to boom time recently. Iraq shows no signs of quieting down, Iran has become quite the fashionably rogue state under President Mahmoud ...

February 22, 2006

Convicted Murderers Should Kick Can Much Sooner

By Henry Sarria

I'm going to throw a few names in your direction to see if they ring a bell: Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai-Yang and Yee Chen Lin. How about Terri Winchell?

February 21, 2006

Gazing at the Stars

By Jeff Gibson

My footprints disappeared seconds after I left them, eternally swept away from the sandy canvas that they once littered. My trailing thoughts were swallowed by the immensity of such a place so close to home, yet so far f...

February 21, 2006

Generate Bling With Gold Digger’s Guide

By Monique Moyal

Let me first say that if it weren't for that Kanye West and Jamie Foxx song just being so damn catchy, I probably wouldn't have been inspired to write this piece. So without further ado, ladies, I give you ten foolproof ...