Opinion

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 ...

October 25, 2005

Phat Al

By system

I don't know if you saw or not, but a hero of the 'human's was tragically hurled onto his bum yesterday by Hurricane Wilma. Al Roker, who most of us know as Phat Al, put his life in danger and went to the eye of the stor...

October 25, 2005

I.V. Takes Shot of Sobriety

By Sean Swaby

"Hey man, hurry the fuck up," some ass-monkey yells at me. I hear a well-placed kick on the door of my Port O Potty. Upon exiting, I didn't feel I owed the man my extended explanation that I had waited six years to see 3...

October 25, 2005

Proposition 73 Endangers Women

By Courtney Weaver

Remember all that talk last spring about the governor calling a special election? Well, it's coming up on Nov. 8 and I'd bet a parking spot on DP most of you haven't given much thought to it. It hasn't hit the airwaves a...

October 25, 2005

Benefits Outweigh Costs of Keeping Soldiers in Iraq

By Paul Jones

Here's a question for you: rounded to the nearest kilo, how many troops have died in Iraq? Two thousand, as we all know. Here's another: How many more hours of electricity does the average Iraqi home get now than under S...

October 25, 2005

If You Think IV Cops are Bad, You’re a Pussy

By Shawn Moura

Jeff Gibson's column "Corruption Lifts the Lorax" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 21) really took me back to my high school years. It also made me think, "Geez dude, grow the fuck up." Gibson writes about growing up in a sheltered sm...

October 25, 2005

Fuel Efficency Exemptions Do Not Include SUVs

By Brian Littenberg

This letter is in regards to Joel Aurora's article ("Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence" Daily Nexus, Oct. 24). Mr. Aurora implies the fuel efficiency exemption for all vehicles over 8,500 pounds will in...

October 24, 2005

Sue Happy

By system

So apparently the House of Representatives passed a

October 24, 2005

Teaching Them Their Own Game

By Eliot Jacobsen

I first started going to Chumash Casino in 1997. At the time, the laws were different in California about how these casinos operate. The casinos were not allowed to keep player losses. Instead, they earned their income o...

October 24, 2005

Go Shake “Old Man Snoring” Awake

By Bri Lafond

Sometime between my semi-annual bike accident and my customary run-in with Pirate at I.V. Market, I got to thinking about unavoidable repetition. I've been at UCSB for a few years now and though I've taken classes in a w...

October 24, 2005

Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence

By Joel Aurora

If you've followed American politics, even loosely since George W. Bush, stole office in early 2001, you would have realized a few common themes that separate this administration from the other more competent, tolerant a...

October 24, 2005

If You Can’t Get the Joke, Hop Off the Hump

By Spencer Alcorn

As regards Brittany Madison's published objection to a phrase contained in Nina Love Anthony's Wednesday Hump (Reader's Voice: When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah, Daily Nexus, Oct. 21), I have one thing to ...

October 24, 2005

Department Praised for its Addition of Catholic Courses

By Mark Sanborn

This letter is in regards to Shannon Lamb's article ("Religious Studies To Open Catholic Focus" Daily Nexus, Oct. 20). I have to say kudos to the Religious Studies Dept. on its creation of the Catholic Studies program.

October 21, 2005

Altering History

By system

Halloween is fast approaching and the 'human still has no idea what it's going to be for Halloween. Conventional wisdom suggests the 'human will have the most unique, witty and hilarious costume out there, but history su...

October 21, 2005

Corruption Lifts the Lorax

By Jeff Gibson

This goes out to the one I love. Growing up in a small town minutes east of Berkeley had its advantages. A quick hop aboard BART and my friends and I could find everything our sheltered little hearts desired.