Opinion

October 31, 2005

Gambling Gone Wild

By Torrin Brooks

Some people think of gambling as something fun to do while in Vegas, but to me it's a way of life. I spend more of my time each week in Chumash Casino than anywhere else. While I have a great love for gambling, I have to...

October 31, 2005

Clean Up Your Drinking Habits

By David Fuad

I have an exciting new invention I want to tell you all about. I guarantee it will revolutionize the way you clean and the way you drink beer. Do I have your attention? I thought so. For too long, the twin giants of the ...

October 31, 2005

UC Regents Run With the Devil on Los Alamos Lab Bid

By Darwin Bondgraham

Two columns recently appeared defending the UC's management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory: "A Constructive Coalition" from Joshua Zide, (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18) and "UC a Better Candidate than Big Business for Los ...

October 31, 2005

Self-Proclaimed Revisionist Historian Has It All Wrong

By Elana Wenocur

I attended Thursday's lecture by Ilan Pappe (an event from the Center for Middle East Studies) and I am dismayed and disgusted that an academic department at my university would bring this self-proclaimed ideologue to ca...

October 31, 2005

Propostion 73 Does Not Consider Abusive Households

By Staff

This letter is in response to Allison Cross's letter ("Minors Unfit to Decide if Abortion is Best Option," Daily Nexus, Oct. 27). I do not think that anyone would disagree with the point that a minor needs some sort of c...

October 27, 2005

Voodoo Poopoo

By system

Only one more issue until Halloween weekend. If you're worried about it raining, don't worry.

October 27, 2005

Where Good Elvises Go To Die

By Nick Pasto

I should have realized that our Vegas trip was doomed when I referred to Siegfried and Roy as Sigmund and Freud while driving into town. I know what Dr. Freud would say about this Freudian slip. He'd conclude that I want...

October 27, 2005

Inequities Plague Minority Students

By Felicia Cruz

Today, students across the country are engaging in efforts to make our universities and society more equitable. It is because of National Take Affirmative Action Day, sponsored by the United States Student Association (U...

October 27, 2005

Save Yourself The Effort, Just Throw on the Lingerie

By Bri Lafond

Halloween is almost upon us once again. As I begin to bar my doors against the onslaught of drunkenness and debauchery surely to ensue this coming weekend, I find myself thinking about what you, my peers, are concerning...

October 27, 2005

Hump Lacks the Raciness College Students Desire

By Daley Tocher

I've wanted to write to the Nexus for a long time, but have always procrastinated the thought into oblivion. I have a problem finishing, and I think you are the solution, Nina. Your first column detailed explaining to va...

October 27, 2005

Minors Unfit to Decide if Abortion is Best Option

By Allison Cross

This letter is in reply to Courtney Weaver's article ("Proposition 73 Endangers Women," Daily Nexus, Oct. 25). Many women have abortions to rid themselves of a problem. I am in complete agreement with this, as the law st...

October 26, 2005

Oppression

By system

Two words: mint spermicide.

October 26, 2005

Finding Your Sexual Neverland

By Nina Anthony

I am so excited for Halloween. When I was a wee lass, Halloween was always the ultimate holiday. Sure, Thanksgiving was all about turkey, with Christmas came gifts, and New Year's was always the holiday where I could sne...

October 26, 2005

I Think, Therefore I Am Liberal

By Matt Cappiello

Greetings, Nexus readers. I'm flattered that you're taking time out of your shitty anthro class to read my article. I'm your new political columnist, reporting from the Enlightened States of America. But I don't like my ...

October 26, 2005

Long-time I.V. Resident Trick-or-Treats Down Memory Lane

By Henry Sarria

Here it is, just around the corner. Halloween, Isla Vista, 2005. So much has changed about Halloween in this town since I first got here that I think some clarification needs to be made. To begin with, there's a good rea...

October 26, 2005

Grab the Responsibility Wheel Before It’s Too Late

By Lauren Perry

We made it through the first month of school. But four students who came to UCSB with goals and dreams, just like every single one of us, are now dead. I have a sinking feeling in my stomach just thinking about it. Four ...