Opinion

April 22, 2005

Lost in Rhetoric

By system

As this year's candidates for various student government positions begin taking down signs, picking up fliers and figuring out where it all went wrong, A.S.'s newly elected officers must face their most formidable enemy:...

April 22, 2005

Please Don’t

By system

The other day I saw a car with a sign on the windshield that read, "Please don't take me." I guess this makes sense... after all, what sort of thief wouldn't be moved by the word "please"?

April 22, 2005

The Downfall of Street Smarts

By Sean Swaby

If you listen real carefully, someone up at the top of the UCSB ladder is popping open a bottle of bubbly. Haven't you heard? Next year's crop of undergrads is the smartest -- statistically at least -- than the last infl...

April 22, 2005

Don’t Worry About the IVFP, The Law Will Back You up

By Eva Inbar

The UCSB Police Dept. recently ticketed a large number of students on bicycles for running a stop sign where the bike path crosses a road. Their concern for student safety is commendable, but even so, proper procedure ne...

April 22, 2005

Join in Today at Campbell to Remember the Genocide

By Maria Harutyunyan

April 24 marks the 90th year since the genocide in Armenia that took the lives of over 1.5 million people. The Armenian Student Association and the Armenian Sisterhood Organization have come together to commemorate the l...

April 21, 2005

Taking Back Empowerment

By Carol Mosely

I'm writing in response to the confused and hateful column in Tuesday's Daily Nexus by Alec Mouhibian ("The Deception Behind Gender Studies," April 19). I'm writing this for readers who may be interested in an assessment...

April 21, 2005

Required Reading

By system

Today's the last day to vote for me for A.S. president. I'm not a betting 'human (I forecast instead), but I wager that the winner will be: the signs.

April 21, 2005

A Backlash Against Blindness

By system

Editor's Note: Due to the large number of responses to Alec Mouhibian's column ("Private Dancer: The Deception Behind Gender Studies," Daily Nexus, April 19), we have published excerpts from several of the submissions, e...

April 21, 2005

In the Trenches: Laziness-Infected College Vocab Gives Me the Chills

By Chris Trenchard

We are brilliant. At the ripe age of 18 - and in many cases even younger - we discovered a word so flexible, so generic and so damn sexy that we would never need to use another word again.

April 20, 2005

Getting’ Wacky on Tabbacky

By Dave Franzese

As of this Monday, the neighbors who reside behind me have been set on striking flint, eager to set off the powder keg that is our shared parking lot. They now park with megalomaniacal abandon, erratically leaving Jettas...

April 20, 2005

Please Don’t

By system

It's 4/20, and the government just replaced the single grain-heavy food pyramid we grew up with 12 different ones to reflect your sex, lifestyle, age, tax filing status, etc.

April 20, 2005

Drugstore Cowboy: Forget Real Crimes, Let’s Get Stoners

By Cory Anthony

As of Tuesday, April 19, 2005, the federal government has spent well over $6 billion on the great "War on Drugs" for this year. I suppose it's needless to remind you that this year has barely kicked off.

April 19, 2005

Enter Princess Charming

By Lulwa Bordcosh

A woman's charm goes further than tactics of batting eyelashes, uncontrollable giggles and a hiked-up miniskirt. Case in point: When a man would apply one of his pickup lines and I would respond with a clever and smoothe...

April 19, 2005

Vote for the Donner Party

By system

It's the second day of A.S. elections, so you should have already voted for me for president, but in case you haven't, I have another campaign promise: As A.S. president, all of the crimes I commit (or allegedly commit, ...

April 19, 2005

Private Dancer: The Deception Behind Gender Studies

By Alec Mouhibian

I'm not much for playground gender discourse. Men aren't from Mars - and as far as I'm concerned, if women were really from Venus, they'd have three boobs. Yet there are certain phallophobic feminists who've taken the ge...

April 19, 2005

Understanding Depression Is Essential to Its Treatment

By Daniel Shepherd

One could argue that this year has started off on the wrong foot. The persistent rains, devastating tsunami and the pressure of another quarter can all contribute to a less-than-perky attitude. For some, the negative fee...