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Recycle All Those Red Cups

February 24, 2006 by Aaron von Boer

Attention UCSB students: Ever seen one of those shiny red plastic cups before? You know, the ones that allow you to practice geometric configurations on an almost nightly basis.
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Distinctive Style Being Destroyed By Pop Culture

February 24, 2006 by Andrew Sweat

Are we just sitting around numbingly sucking everything into our souls that is being displayed by TV, magazines and celebrities? What happened to personal style truly meaning an original, personal sty...
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The Readers Voice

February 24, 2006 by Josh Rodine

I'm afraid Mr. Aduba has it all wrong in his article ("Racism Should Be Judged By Actions, Not Deliberations," Daily Nexus, Feb. 23). There's nothing "subjective" about racism.
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Curb the Binge-Purge Cycle

February 23, 2006 by Nick Pasto

I've been going to school for about 18 years. You don't last 18 years in the cruel world of academia without learning some serious tricks of the student trade. One of my favorite high school technique...
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Aberhuman and Fitch

February 23, 2006 by

The 'human thinks that winter quarter sucks. The homework sucks, the lack of baseball sucks and the weather sucks.
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Gaucho Economics: Coffee Giant Capitalizes On Demands

February 23, 2006 by Colin Marshall

Though safely ensconced in Santa Barbara, the land of the nearly perpetual 65-degree day, we still can't escape the vagaries of the seasons. The delusions held by our friends in flip-flops and shorts ...
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Lincoln Has His Logs So Let’s Just Forget About the Penny

February 23, 2006 by David Fuad

I want it gone. It's outdated, it's worthless and it jumped the shark 10 years ago. It's small and brown and it's not a midget UPS driver. Ladies and gentlemen, I, David Fuad, being of sound mind and ...
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Racism Should Be Judges By Actions, Not Deliberations

February 23, 2006 by Lance Aduba

For those of you who didn't know, or for those of you who forgot, this month is Black History Month. While contemplating what I would do in commemoration of this month, I stumbled across a dilemma, a ...
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Dirty Dilemmas Done on the Desktop

February 22, 2006 by Nina Anthony

I met my boss this weekend. It was awkward at first because he knew me, and trying to play off the fact that I was at a loss for who the fuck he was, I called him by a bizarre name and pretended that ...
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Revenge of the ‘human

February 22, 2006 by

Alas, the Nexus is competent again! Let the mending process between the 'human and the Nexus begin.
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He Said: Mixing Rocks and Ice Can Only Mean Olympic Greatness

February 22, 2006 by Matt Dozier

There are certain moments in the Winter Olympics that truly embody the spirit of international competition - the gut-wrenching pace of a short-track, speed skating final, the grace of a perfectly land...
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She Said: Ice Dancing Spins Circles Around Olympic Competition

February 22, 2006 by Kristen Richer

There are things in this world that just seem like they belong together: Root beer and vanilla ice cream, Christina Aguilera and heavy face makeup, beer and ping-pong balls, herds of freshmen and Del ...
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United States, Israel Must Now Watch Where They Step

February 22, 2006 by Joel Furman

The Balkan powder keg of today's world, the Middle East, has seemingly inched closer to boom time recently. Iraq shows no signs of quieting down, Iran has become quite the fashionably rogue state unde...
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Convicted Murderers Should Kick Can Much Sooner

February 22, 2006 by Henry Sarria

I'm going to throw a few names in your direction to see if they ring a bell: Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai-Yang and Yee Chen Lin. How about Terri Winchell?
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Gazing at the Stars

February 21, 2006 by Jeff Gibson

My footprints disappeared seconds after I left them, eternally swept away from the sandy canvas that they once littered. My trailing thoughts were swallowed by the immensity of such a place so close t...
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