Opinion

Columns

Sign of the Times

Virtual Reality

Argument in the Office

Wanna Write for Opinion?

All Opinion Posts

Proposition 73 Endangers Women

October 25, 2005 by Courtney Weaver

Remember all that talk last spring about the governor calling a special election? Well, it's coming up on Nov. 8 and I'd bet a parking spot on DP most of you haven't given much thought to it. It hasn'...
read more

Benefits Outweigh Costs of Keeping Soldiers in Iraq

October 25, 2005 by Paul Jones

Here's a question for you: rounded to the nearest kilo, how many troops have died in Iraq? Two thousand, as we all know. Here's another: How many more hours of electricity does the average Iraqi home ...
read more

If You Think IV Cops are Bad, You’re a Pussy

October 25, 2005 by Shawn Moura

Jeff Gibson's column "Corruption Lifts the Lorax" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 21) really took me back to my high school years. It also made me think, "Geez dude, grow the fuck up." Gibson writes about growing ...
read more

Fuel Efficency Exemptions Do Not Include SUVs

October 25, 2005 by Brian Littenberg

This letter is in regards to Joel Aurora's article ("Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence" Daily Nexus, Oct. 24). Mr. Aurora implies the fuel efficiency exemption for all vehicles over ...
read more

Teaching Them Their Own Game

October 24, 2005 by Eliot Jacobsen

I first started going to Chumash Casino in 1997. At the time, the laws were different in California about how these casinos operate. The casinos were not allowed to keep player losses. Instead, they e...
read more

Sue Happy

October 24, 2005 by

So apparently the House of Representatives passed a
read more

Go Shake “Old Man Snoring” Awake

October 24, 2005 by Bri Lafond

Sometime between my semi-annual bike accident and my customary run-in with Pirate at I.V. Market, I got to thinking about unavoidable repetition. I've been at UCSB for a few years now and though I've ...
read more

Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence

October 24, 2005 by Joel Aurora

If you've followed American politics, even loosely since George W. Bush, stole office in early 2001, you would have realized a few common themes that separate this administration from the other more c...
read more

If You Can’t Get the Joke, Hop Off the Hump

October 24, 2005 by Spencer Alcorn

As regards Brittany Madison's published objection to a phrase contained in Nina Love Anthony's Wednesday Hump (Reader's Voice: When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah, Daily Nexus, Oct. 21), ...
read more

Department Praised for its Addition of Catholic Courses

October 24, 2005 by Mark Sanborn

This letter is in regards to Shannon Lamb's article ("Religious Studies To Open Catholic Focus" Daily Nexus, Oct. 20). I have to say kudos to the Religious Studies Dept. on its creation of the Catholi...
read more

Corruption Lifts the Lorax

October 21, 2005 by Jeff Gibson

This goes out to the one I love. Growing up in a small town minutes east of Berkeley had its advantages. A quick hop aboard BART and my friends and I could find everything our sheltered little hearts ...
read more

Altering History

October 21, 2005 by

Halloween is fast approaching and the 'human still has no idea what it's going to be for Halloween. Conventional wisdom suggests the 'human will have the most unique, witty and hilarious costume out t...
read more

Review Your Rights in Time For Halloween

October 21, 2005 by Mark Signa

Over the last few weeks, I have been meeting students at the residence halls and dining commons and it has been a great reminder as to what my job is all about. Yeah, it's fun being a rootin'-tootin' ...
read more

Fighting Acts of Hate the Resident Assistants’ Way

October 21, 2005 by Debbie Fleming

This letter is in response to the article published Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Daily Nexus titled, "List of Local Hate-Free Places Excludes UCSB." UCSB was not recognized by the Anti-Defamation League b...
read more

When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah

October 21, 2005 by Brittany Madison

I had to write a rebuttal to a certain line of Nina Love Anthony's most recent Wednesday Hump article "Brake for Slippery Sex" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 19). The article shines much needed light on a constan...
read more