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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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Suspension of Discharged Relief

January 12, 2006 by

The only thing I miss about high school is the suspensions. Remember how exciting it was when you or somebody you knew was suspended for the day and the whole school was ablaze in gossip.
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Gift Exchange Forges Societal Black Hole

January 12, 2006 by Colin Marshall

The bulk of you have spent the past few weeks vegetating at the parents' place, enjoying late December's reprieve from busywork and dead-end employment while wedging in a few holidays as well. Kwanzaa...
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Sexually Transmitted Fleas

January 11, 2006 by Nina Anthony

The holidays are neat, but there was one thing I noticed this season that I never took note of before. Screaming. Everywhere. Hundreds of children screaming and crying everywhere I went.
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I Can’t Get no Satis-Quack-tion

January 11, 2006 by

Some people come to the weatherhuman seeking life advice. My advice to them is seek another life.
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The Straw That Broke the Elephant’s Back

January 11, 2006 by Heather Buchheim

By most accounts, 2005 was a tough year. In the political realm, it was particularly inauspicious for Republican leadership. Here in California, voters flatly rejected Governor Arnold $50 million wast...
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Arrested Malevolent

January 10, 2006 by Jeff Gibson

All of us have committed the act at some point or another in our short and crooked lives. Whether you take a drag off of the blunt facts or you decide to pass the torch to the left, everyone reading t...
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