Opinion
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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So long, winter quarter. And bring your abysmal weather and shitty class schedule with you.
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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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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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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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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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Bright, blooming tulips to the opening of the new Arbor for giving students another convenient place to spend their parents' money.
Shriveled, flaky turds to Menehunes for closing its doors - putting...
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The human is becoming increasingly perplexed as to why teachers constantly refer to final written documents as "papers." Sure, that is what you are turning in, "paper." But can't you just turn in 8-10...
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I can't believe it is still happening. I thought students and working people had taken a tough enough blow when our congress and president enacted billions and billions of cuts to the fundamental prog...
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
