Opinion

September 30, 2005

Quick, Pack Up Your Belongings

By Lauren Creamer

If you had to pack up your life in a single suitcase what would you take? At 3 a.m. yesterday, my friend Carly, an Oak Park resident, learned she had to pack what she could because her neighborhood was on voluntary evacu...

September 30, 2005

Cool Off I.V., Heckling Just Goes Too Far

By Mike Rathbun

You're at a 10. We need you at like a 2. I had looked forward to the first weekend of the school year all summer. There's more beer than even we Gauchos know what to do with, and nubile, young freshmen roam the streets i...

September 30, 2005

Cycling Inability Leaves Freshman Blaming GOLD

By David Ferry

An open letter to that girl I hit on my bike yesterday. My bad. Seriously, it probably sucked pretty hard to be you at like 8:45 a.m. yesterday, face down on the grass outside of FT with your backpack, your little bicycl...

September 30, 2005

Facebook Write-Ups Just Another Bogus UC Policy

By George Flaherty

Even though I am a graduate student, I was compelled to write in after reading your article, ("Facebookers To Face Write-Ups for Dorm Photos," Daily Nexus, Sept. 29). This new non-policy (it appears neither in current re...

September 30, 2005

US News Coverage Lacking When Compared Abroad

By Ashleigh Talberth

I am writing in response to Katy Tur's article on the physical appearance of news reporters ("News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum's Report Card," Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). Personally, I am sick of American news stations...

September 29, 2005

Error’d

By system

The 'human is drowning

September 29, 2005

Lying Your Way Through Life

By Nick Pasto

We all have hobbies. Some people fly kites. Some people read books. Some people eat a lot food and then intentionally puke it back up. Some people do all of the aforementioned things.

September 29, 2005

Investigating Meaning Within the Irrelevant Blog

By Chris Trenchard

I knew the blog had officially arrived when I decided to start one. Usually the last one on any bandwagon, I jumped on right after reading a New York Times journalist's blog about a frontline U.S. soldier's blog.

September 28, 2005

Dan Brown

By system

So the 'human has hopped on the Da Vinci Code train. It's not quite as exciting as the trains I'm used to, but at least I'll be able to walk in the morning.

September 28, 2005

I am Nina, Hear Me Roargasm

By Nina Anthony

The first week of school is always the same - full of endless introductions and overviews. Professors know how warped our minds are from the summer sunshine, and most of them very gently and slowly ease us back into the ...

September 28, 2005

Something Even the Mighty Bong Can’t Beat

By Jeff Gibson

It was Sunday morning, about 9:30 - the time when I'm usually hitting the halfway point of the best sleep I've managed to grab over the past week. The time when I should be dreaming of endless fields covered with magical...

September 28, 2005

Housing Lottery Lacks Economic Sagacity

By Colin Marshall

Every year, students apply for on-campus housing and parking. Busy praying that they'll be granted a place to sleep and a patch of asphalt where their car will be keyed less, they don't think twice about it.

September 28, 2005

News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum’s Report Card

By Katy Tur

Having just graduated from college in June and having taken my first step into the working world, I have noticed a few things. I recently began a job at a news station in Los Angeles.

September 27, 2005

Da-na-nah-na-nah-naaw-na

By system

Remember that show back in the day? You know, the one with the agro crag and the inexplicably British referee? Yes, Guts. Or was it GUTS? Or was it SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION OF A RACIALLY DIVERSE GROUP OF CHILDREN?

September 27, 2005

Do I Know You From Somewhere?

By Bri Lafond

Here we are, back in class, back in those uncomfortable desks, back to fighting to keep yourself awake during that post-lunch foray into your general education requirements. Just as inevitable as the fact that that class...

September 27, 2005

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the End of the World

By Chris Trenchard

When I think of the apocalypse, I first think of the sky. Whether it be frogs or stars or the sky itself, something will fall from it, I'm assured. In the past month, to me, the sky has shown itself to be an unstable bea...