Opinion

April 12, 2005

A.S. Fee Initiatives

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

In theory, the A.S. Student Lobby initiative is a great idea. You know, giving students a voice and all that jazz. In reality, however, the group does not have enough power to make a significant difference on the state l...

April 12, 2005

A.S. Reaffirmations

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

–The hardships that come with the decision to raise a child should never deter one from pursuing higher education. With the costs of child care on the rise, every cent helps in ensuring those with families have the...

April 12, 2005

Campuswide Initiatives

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Though Community Affairs Board (CAB) has the best intentions at heart, it is adequately serving its present purpose with the money it already has. At the very least, an additional 85 cents per student per quarter is too ...

April 11, 2005

Left Lane Driver: Potential Politicians, Sign Off

By Neil Visalvanich

Every year, during the Associated Students election, the Daily Nexus runs endorsements that trash our beloved student politicians and their earnest campaigning. It's become something of tradition at the Nexus, sort of li...

April 11, 2005

A.S. Blows (in the Wind)

By system

The walkway from HSSB to Storke Tower looks like a hurricane came through. Over the weekend, the A.S. campaign signs toppled and splintered, and the gales scattered the pieces like campaign confetti.

April 11, 2005

A Vote for Torrin is a Vote for Change

By Torrin Brooks

Running as an independent candidate can be tough. I don't get to wear a Christmas-colored T-shirt, I don't have throngs of zombies cheering me when I say anything at a debate and I am always the outsider of the campaign....

April 11, 2005

Joining SAC Means Joining the Fight for the Greater Good

By Kavita Kapur

Throughout this week, we've seen a new kind of energy spreading throughout this campus as huge colorful signs are put up on grass plots, and the Arbor becomes more populated with fliers.

April 11, 2005

Help Prevent Sexual Assaults During ‘Take Back the Night’ Week

By Jessie Nieblas

Students walking around campus during the week of April 11-15 will notice a new addition to the lawns. Now the posters, advertisements and campaign banners share a space with hundreds of brightly colored pinwheels on lav...

April 8, 2005

Private Dancer: Arrogant Activism

By Alec Mouhibian

Any remaining notion that modern liberalism is the politics "of the little man" must be retired in light of the open-space agenda. Liberalism is really just the politics of liberals - to impose whatever they deem compass...

April 8, 2005

Knuckleheads

By system

I used to think there was nothing that could drive me to kill - not even Tickle Me Elmo. Then I discovered what it's like to sit next to someone who cracks their knuckles throughout an entire lecture.

April 8, 2005

Fight Night Shouldn

By Maral Vahdani

I was more than a little saddened when reading Kaitlin Pike's story on Associated Students Finance Board and its decision to reduce Fight Night's funds by only $299 ("Finance Board Reduces Fight Night Funding," Daily Nex...

April 7, 2005

The Artful Dodger: Drew’s Concussion Follies

By Drew Mackie

If you give yourself have a concussion, don't do it at a theme party. Concussions, the doctor tells me, can cause a person to feel disoriented. Coincidentally, so can lying down in a room and looking up at otherwise norm...

April 7, 2005

Take the Big Red Challenge

By system

The big new thing here at the Nexus office is to take a Big Red gum wrapper, lick it and stick it to your forehead. After a minute or so, you'll discover something very newsworthy: It burns! It burns!

April 7, 2005

Don’t Undermine the Pope’s Achievements

By Bert Viloria

Regarding the column by Raffaello Colasante, "Our Late Pope Was Not Without His Flaws," (Daily Nexus, April 5) - while he surely had time on his hands for scripting that awful diatribe about his inscrutable dislike of th...

April 7, 2005

Amids Political Agendas, The Right to Live was Forgotten

By Sean Benison

Despite the popular image of investigative reporters as determined to dig beneath the surface of things, the pressure of today's rapid-fire news cycle encourages journalists to grab ready-made storylines for their report...

April 7, 2005

College Bookstores are the Bane of This Customer’s Existence

By Justin L. Smith

Every quarter thousands of students line up outside the UCSB and I.V. bookstores - and every quarter thousands of students are turned away with the knowledge that they will once again start the quarter behind in the read...