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Author Misrepresents Women in Graphic Fantasy Writing

After a few minutes of casual chatting with my roommate once I had come home from work, she dropped into the conversation that the Opinion article of the Daily Nexus was particularly racy that day. My...
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I.V. Foot Patrol Should Follow the Golden Rule

It seems like almost everyone in Isla Vista has a story of how and why their citation or arrest was unjust. I've heard talk of the various "bad" cops, and have received two traffic violations myself; ...
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Ignore the Neo-Fascist Cult

As your Associated Students internal vice president, I'd like to share a few opinions with you. "Jazz was foisted on black Americans by the same oligarchy which had run the U.S. slave trade, with the ...
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Lunch on me

A box in nicolletti's is offering free lunch to anyone who makes a worthy suggestion for improvement in the U-Cen.
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Demonic Panda Expresses All You Need

My hands wouldn't stop shaking. My mind wouldn't stop whirling. I would have done anything at that moment to fill the hunger rumbling against the walls of my stomach - well, anything that happened to ...
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Gaucho Rolls the Dice

I've recently started playing the classic board game Monopoly again. I was struck by an idea: The Monopoly board is a fitting metaphor for my time here at Santa Barbara. There are four sides on the bo...
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Nexus Crosses First Amendment Line in Column

Editor, Daily Nexus, If “Zone Out to Illicit Lust” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 6) by Ericka Koyama was supposed to be a joke, your readers didn’t get it. For one, it was not, in any way, funn...
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Fantom Must Return to the Dome for Gauchos’ Spirit

Editor, Daily Nexus, When I came to this institution two years ago, I was immersed in all that was UCSB – the nightlife down on DP, the lazy afternoons spent at the beach and the most beautiful ...
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Zone Out to Illicit Lust

I've been harboring the biggest crush on my professor for a long while now. I'm not going to lie; I want that man to touch me in ways that are almost unfit to print. The following events took place, a...
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Worthless ‘human

The incompetence of the Seahawks seemed to have rubbed off on the Nexus. Damn this small space that prevents the 'human from making some witty super bowl reference.
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Don’t Fuss Over Political Spoofs

Muslims around the world have stunned me with their violent and misguided reaction to the recent publications of Muhammad cartoons in European newspapers.
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Faculty Scams Students

Before arriving to this sun-drenched intellectual oasis we refer to as the University of California, Santa Barbara, I served time - two whole years of it - at a community college three minutes away fr...
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Wait, the Super Bowl is Sunday?

Shit, who's playing?
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Historic Free Box Needs Repair

Most long-time I.V. residents are familiar with the Free Box, but for those of you who are just beginning your Isla Vista experience, take a peek some day in front of the Isla Vista Recreation and Par...
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Frozen Gamete Gamble

Would you call me a creep if I told you that I keep my leftover semen in jars in my refrigerator? You would? Well, don't worry, I don't actually keep my sperm in the refrigerator. I keep it in the fre...
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