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Wet Tuesday

April 4, 2006 by

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

April 4, 2006 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 ...
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Measure D Punishes Public Transportation Users

April 4, 2006 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...
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Students Fly to DC to Discuss Iran and Hamas

April 4, 2006 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., fro...
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Call to Recycle the Nexus To Help Save Some Trees

April 4, 2006 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, becau...
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Avoid Clicker Futility

April 3, 2006 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 drie...
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Let There Be Light, Goddamnit!

April 3, 2006 by

What a tease the weather is. The day before spring quarter starts, it - the cardinal of all spring quarter sins - rains?
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Howland Haunts Athletic Director’s Coaching Choice

April 3, 2006 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 Pri...
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Right to Protest Funerals Lies Under First Amendment

April 3, 2006 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 pro...
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Civil War Rips Uganda Apart

March 10, 2006 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,...
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Booyah, Spring!

March 10, 2006 by

So long, winter quarter. And bring your abysmal weather and shitty class schedule with you.
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Stein’s Law Can Quell Oil Panic

March 10, 2006 by Colin Marshall

So, I hear mankind is teetering on the brink of self-destruction. Not a day goes by that the alarm isn't raised about the rapid depletion of our planet's resources, an announcement often accompanied b...
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Stand Up and Fight to Improve Social Justice

March 10, 2006 by Helen Mortera

You know, I'm getting pretty tired of the people who sit in the Arbor with signs crying for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Don't get me wrong; I'm liberal as hell.
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Author Begs Shiebler To Get His Facts Straight

March 10, 2006 by Brian Littenberg

My eyes have been opened. When I read Bill Shiebler's article ("Fight Against Financial Aid Cuts," Daily Nexus, March 9) I was faced with a haunting question I had never before considered: How did Bil...
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Author Says No To Parental Notification Initiatives

March 10, 2006 by Jen Smith

UCSB students should be aware of a new petition drive to put "parental notification" back on the California ballot. Californians have just spoken on parental notification - and they said, "NO," loud a...
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