Opinion
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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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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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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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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Let me first say that if it weren't for that Kanye West and Jamie Foxx song just being so damn catchy, I probably wouldn't have been inspired to write this piece. So without further ado, ladies, I giv...
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Upon leaving this little square mile of heaven in a few months, there will be a few things I'll miss: irresponsibility, my friends, walking to the bar during off hours at work and sitting on the beach...
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It's a Friday on the eve of a three-day weekend after the conclusion of midterms. What the hell, no-one is here.
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As my four years here at college draw to a close and I prepare to enter the rarified world of UCSB alumni, I can't help but wonder about my legacy after I leave.
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It turns out that Marge Simpson was right. Cartoons do cause violence. But even Marge couldn't foresee the chaos of the past few weeks: Embassies burning down, riots in the street, withdrawal of ambas...
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How many of you have felt victimised in lectures by banal mutterings about mentally and physically inept states caused by the intake of copious amounts of fermented vegetable drinks; when vulgar membe...
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My garbage man hates me. He never actually tells me this, but I can see it in his eyes each week as I stumble outside in a tired daze and sluggishly move my car so that he can access our dumpster. I t...
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The Associated Press reported yesterday that Vice President Cheney took the blame for shooting his friend with a shotgun. Cheney said, "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend." Well no ...
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It's a stressful time of the quarter. While contending with midterms, we're simultaneously required to register for the next round of classes. Who among us hasn't had to flip a textbook's pages with o...
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When I first began to read Jake Thorn's article ("Time to Trim the Hedges," Daily Nexus, Feb. 14) I was expecting to hear the same things I've been hearing for months now: "Bush lied ... Bush broke th...
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I am concerned about the campus parking enforcement occurring on nights and weekends. Over the last six months or so, the parking permit machines around campus have consistently failed to dispense nig...
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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
