Opinion

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

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.

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

Review Your Rights in Time For Halloween

By Mark Signa

Over the last few weeks, I have been meeting students at the residence halls and dining commons and it has been a great reminder as to what my job is all about. Yeah, it's fun being a rootin'-tootin' gunslinger going all...

October 21, 2005

Fighting Acts of Hate the Resident Assistants’ Way

By Debbie Fleming

This letter is in response to the article published Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Daily Nexus titled, "List of Local Hate-Free Places Excludes UCSB." UCSB was not recognized by the Anti-Defamation League because we haven't ye...

October 21, 2005

When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah

By Brittany Madison

I had to write a rebuttal to a certain line of Nina Love Anthony's most recent Wednesday Hump article "Brake for Slippery Sex" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 19). The article shines much needed light on a constant problem I have fou...

October 19, 2005

Brake for Slippery Sex

By Nina Anthony

Foreplay? Fore-PLEASE. If I run across one more kid who thinks it is proper etiquette to just stick it in, I'm going to scream. Why can't we be more like the French - a minimum of three orgasms before penetration? I'd ev...

October 19, 2005

Fortune Cookie Crooky

By system

It's good to be the weatherhuman. Not only do you get to say whatever the hell you want to 20,000 people (well, let's be honest: 2,000,000 people), you get to be in control of the weather.

October 19, 2005

Students Urged to Bring Out Their Vote

By Bill Shiebler

I recently read several articles about the involvement of students and student government in the statewide election. I want to comment on the efforts of UC students in this election and why it is so vital to have an acti...

October 18, 2005

So rude, hmph.

By system

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day when I don't have beach plans you inconsiderate asshole of a meteorological system.

October 18, 2005

A Constructive Coalition

By Joshua Zide

Sylvia Frain's column, "UC Should Rethink Relationship with Los Alamos" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 14), demonstrates a staggering lack of knowledge about the lab and the University of California's role in managing it. As a gradu...

October 18, 2005

Criticism of Stein Sophomoric

By Paul Jones

This letter is in response to Monday's letters "Ben Stein Confuses What It Means to Be an American" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17) and "Republicans Wasted Their Money Bringing Stein to SB" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17). I love bigotry ...

October 18, 2005

Root of Isla Vista Evil Not Lost on darksideofUCSB.com

By James Baron

Right Rant, Wrong Rag? It would appear that Adam Graff may have submitted his diatribe entitled "It Takes an Isla Village" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17), to the wrong paper. Adam's comments about rude drivers, pathetic-looking ...