Opinion

February 7, 2006

Lunch on me

By system

A box in nicolletti's is offering free lunch to anyone who makes a worthy suggestion for improvement in the U-Cen.

February 7, 2006

Demonic Panda Expresses All You Need

By Jeff Gibson

My hands wouldn't stop shaking. My mind wouldn't stop whirling. I would have done anything at that moment to fill the hunger rumbling against the walls of my stomach - well, anything that happened to be cheaper than the ...

February 7, 2006

Gaucho Rolls the Dice

By David Fuad

I've recently started playing the classic board game Monopoly again. I was struck by an idea: The Monopoly board is a fitting metaphor for my time here at Santa Barbara. There are four sides on the board, each correspond...

February 7, 2006

Nexus Crosses First Amendment Line in Column

By Joyce Familara

Editor, Daily Nexus, If “Zone Out to Illicit Lust” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 6) by Ericka Koyama was supposed to be a joke, your readers didn’t get it. For one, it was not, in any way, funny. Second, it was un...

February 7, 2006

Fantom Must Return to the Dome for Gauchos’ Spirit

By Tyler Drew

Editor, Daily Nexus, When I came to this institution two years ago, I was immersed in all that was UCSB – the nightlife down on DP, the lazy afternoons spent at the beach and the most beautiful women in the world. ...

February 6, 2006

Worthless ‘human

By system

The incompetence of the Seahawks seemed to have rubbed off on the Nexus. Damn this small space that prevents the 'human from making some witty super bowl reference.

February 6, 2006

Zone Out to Illicit Lust

By Anonymous

I've been harboring the biggest crush on my professor for a long while now. I'm not going to lie; I want that man to touch me in ways that are almost unfit to print. The following events took place, at least for me, on M...

February 6, 2006

Don’t Fuss Over Political Spoofs

By Andrew Levine

Muslims around the world have stunned me with their violent and misguided reaction to the recent publications of Muhammad cartoons in European newspapers.

February 3, 2006

Wait, the Super Bowl is Sunday?

By system

Shit, who's playing?

February 3, 2006

Faculty Scams Students

By David Schachner

Before arriving to this sun-drenched intellectual oasis we refer to as the University of California, Santa Barbara, I served time - two whole years of it - at a community college three minutes away from the suburban dwel...

February 3, 2006

Historic Free Box Needs Repair

By Jenny Jett

Most long-time I.V. residents are familiar with the Free Box, but for those of you who are just beginning your Isla Vista experience, take a peek some day in front of the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD) o...

February 2, 2006

Just in Time!

By system

It's a miracle! Both the new Arbor and the highly touted Broida Expressway are finally completed. Just in time! We were looking forward to using them ... two years ago (slight exaggeration).

February 2, 2006

Frozen Gamete Gamble

By Nick Pasto

Would you call me a creep if I told you that I keep my leftover semen in jars in my refrigerator? You would? Well, don't worry, I don't actually keep my sperm in the refrigerator. I keep it in the freezer.

February 2, 2006

Local Mourns In Evil’s Aftermath

By Henry Sarria

This week I was going to write about a comparison of the Palestinian elections to the ABC hit show, "Dancing with the Stars." Not to trivialize a historical event in our time, but, with all said and done, it was worthy o...

February 2, 2006

Time Well Managed Means Excluding Edward Forty-Hands

By Colin Marshall

"Edward Forty-Hands" is played thusly: The participant's buddies duct tape a pair of cheap malt liquors to his hands. Said participant cannot, until the combined 80 oz. are imbibed, remove the bottles. This simple rule s...

February 2, 2006

Gaucho Marketing Department Must Get Off the Bench

By Reza Garajedaghi

Last Saturday, UCSB's men's basketball game versus the University of the Pacific (UOP) was broadcast on FOX Sports West. I attended the game but watched the taped version when I got home. What brings about this letter is...