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Come Slide Away With Me

January 18, 2006 by Nina Anthony

Once upon a time, the best part about summer was the Slip 'n' Slide. Breaking out that rubbery strip and hosing it down for the kids to throw themselves on was required at every celebration.
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I Can’t … I’m Mormon

January 18, 2006 by

Did you know UCSB is the second-fittest college campus next to BYU? This is bullshit.
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Sudanese Need Aid, Not Divestment

January 18, 2006 by Staff

The tragedy of Darfur, for all of us Sudanese, is and will remain a deep scar for years to come. The causes and roots of the conflict are, however, complex and intertwined. One of the tools of the ant...
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If the Future Has You Stumped, It’s Time To Get Crunked

January 18, 2006 by Bri Lafond

The plan for the rest of my life is due at the end of the quarter and I've been procrastinating rather badly on it. I mean, I've barely touched the thing and there's the deadline, hovering all big and...
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Churchill Illegitimately Compared to Dr. King, Jr.

January 18, 2006 by Scott M. Roney

In her January 17 column, Maria Reifel Saltzberg ("Radical Activist Stirs Rights Debate," Daily Nexus) defends the racist, violent and extremely hateful views of Ward Churchill - even invoking the nam...
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UCSB Tri-athlete Not At Fault in Cycling Accident

January 18, 2006 by Eva Inbar

Again, we are blaming the victim. Kendra Payne, a young bicyclist and UCSB triathlete, was on a morning ride up Gibraltar Road, when she was killed by an asphalt truck attempting to pass her.
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UC To Decide On Darfur

January 17, 2006 by Adam Rosenthal Jason Miller Adam Sterling

In 1944, Polish lawyer Raphel Lemkin, in response to the Holocaust that took the lives of 49 family members, coined the term genocide to describe a crime against humanity so horrific that it needed it...
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King of Hearts

January 17, 2006 by

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day yesterday, I slept in until 4 p.m. and had many dreams.
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Radical Activist Stirs Rights Debate

January 17, 2006 by Maria Saltzberg

Whenever I remind my parents that they were hippies, they like to tell me that they were too political to be hippies. I'm not sure if I really believe that hippies aren't political, but they did show ...
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Race Relations Unjustly Questioned in Katrina Aftermath

January 17, 2006 by Henry Sarria

Hurricane Katrina showed us a lot, not only in terms of destruction, but the inefficiencies of the human species as a whole. Many of these inefficiencies came compliments of those in charge and at the...
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Your Newly Missing Valuables May Prove Redeemable

January 17, 2006 by Mark Signa

Welcome back. It's been quiet around here for the last few weeks and now that everyone is back from break, it's time to let the fun begin again!
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Regents Reap Benefits

January 13, 2006 by Darwin Bondgraham

It's been a very merry Christmas for the UC Regents. On Dec. 21, the limited liability corporation they formed with Bechtel, BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) and Washington Group International was awarded...
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Remembering Yesterday Is Hard

January 13, 2006 by

Yesterday was a sad day. Sidney Frank, inventor of Grey Goose Vodka, died yesterday at the age of 85.
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Corruption Zig-Zags Partisan Line

January 13, 2006 by Paul Jones

In response to Heather Buchheim's article, "The Straw That Broke the Elephant's Back," (Daily Nexus. Jan. 11) it is gratifying to see some well-deserved criticism of the Congressional Republicans' sha...
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Boars Abhor the Arbor

January 12, 2006 by Nick Pasto

I use Yahoo! for my e-mail, which means messages that are identified by the system as "spam" are automatically ignored and placed into a bulk e-mail folder. I had assumed that this folder was full of ...
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