Opinion

January 17, 2006

UC To Decide On Darfur

By Adam Rosenthal Jason Miller Adam Sterling

In 1944, Polish lawyer Raphel Lemkin, in response to the Holocaust that took the lives of 49 family members, coined the term genocide to describe a crime against humanity so horrific that it needed its own definition and...

January 17, 2006

King of Hearts

By system

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day yesterday, I slept in until 4 p.m. and had many dreams.

January 17, 2006

Radical Activist Stirs Rights Debate

By Maria Saltzberg

Whenever I remind my parents that they were hippies, they like to tell me that they were too political to be hippies. I'm not sure if I really believe that hippies aren't political, but they did show me what it meant in ...

January 17, 2006

Race Relations Unjustly Questioned in Katrina Aftermath

By Henry Sarria

Hurricane Katrina showed us a lot, not only in terms of destruction, but the inefficiencies of the human species as a whole. Many of these inefficiencies came compliments of those in charge and at the expense of those af...

January 17, 2006

Your Newly Missing Valuables May Prove Redeemable

By Mark Signa

Welcome back. It's been quiet around here for the last few weeks and now that everyone is back from break, it's time to let the fun begin again!

January 13, 2006

Regents Reap Benefits

By Darwin Bondgraham

It's been a very merry Christmas for the UC Regents. On Dec. 21, the limited liability corporation they formed with Bechtel, BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) and Washington Group International was awarded the contract to man...

January 13, 2006

Remembering Yesterday Is Hard

By system

Yesterday was a sad day. Sidney Frank, inventor of Grey Goose Vodka, died yesterday at the age of 85.

January 13, 2006

Corruption Zig-Zags Partisan Line

By Paul Jones

In response to Heather Buchheim's article, "The Straw That Broke the Elephant's Back," (Daily Nexus. Jan. 11) it is gratifying to see some well-deserved criticism of the Congressional Republicans' shameless surrender to ...

January 12, 2006

Suspension of Discharged Relief

By system

The only thing I miss about high school is the suspensions. Remember how exciting it was when you or somebody you knew was suspended for the day and the whole school was ablaze in gossip.

January 12, 2006

Boars Abhor the Arbor

By Nick Pasto

I use Yahoo! for my e-mail, which means messages that are identified by the system as "spam" are automatically ignored and placed into a bulk e-mail folder. I had assumed that this folder was full of useless scam e-mails...

January 12, 2006

Gift Exchange Forges Societal Black Hole

By Colin Marshall

The bulk of you have spent the past few weeks vegetating at the parents' place, enjoying late December's reprieve from busywork and dead-end employment while wedging in a few holidays as well. Kwanzaa, Festivus and the l...

January 11, 2006

I Can’t Get no Satis-Quack-tion

By system

Some people come to the weatherhuman seeking life advice. My advice to them is seek another life.

January 11, 2006

Sexually Transmitted Fleas

By Nina Anthony

The holidays are neat, but there was one thing I noticed this season that I never took note of before. Screaming. Everywhere. Hundreds of children screaming and crying everywhere I went.

January 11, 2006

The Straw That Broke the Elephant’s Back

By Heather Buchheim

By most accounts, 2005 was a tough year. In the political realm, it was particularly inauspicious for Republican leadership. Here in California, voters flatly rejected Governor Arnold $50 million waste of a special elect...

January 10, 2006

Hi!Burnation

By system

The weatherhuman forgot to welcome everybody back to winter quarter yesterday, simply stunning considering it is the 'human's favorite quarter.

January 10, 2006

Arrested Malevolent

By Jeff Gibson

All of us have committed the act at some point or another in our short and crooked lives. Whether you take a drag off of the blunt facts or you decide to pass the torch to the left, everyone reading this has to admit the...