Opinion

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...

April 6, 2005

War on Terror, Eh?

By system

Canadians will now have to show their passports when crossing the U.S. border. I suppose that's a good idea.

April 6, 2005

Sexing Up Your Regimen

By Dave Franzese

Spring Quarter is shit-awesome. This platinum 10-week stretch of our lives that so breathtakingly straddles the line running between full-fledged academia and the reckless abandon of summer vacation surely is, despite th...

April 6, 2005

Use Your Vote on the Progressive Party

By Bill Shiebler, Joanna Thomas, Janett Cardiel, and Gerardo Zepeda

For over 12 years the Student Action Coalition (SAC) has been making sure that the student voice is heard at all levels of government, from Cheadle Hall to Capitol Hill. SAC's record speaks for itself. From fighting to s...

April 5, 2005

No Sign of Intelligent Life

By system

Huzzah, it's A.S. election season! I can now officially launch my campaign for A.S. president. What do I have that the other candidates lack, you ask?

April 5, 2005

Bask in the Glow of Opening Day

By Sean Swaby

The ocean will be a little bit calmer. Its waves will crash into the cliffs and draw should-be-class-goers out to the beach armed with a cooler in one hand and a tattered old football in the other. Boardshorts and sundre...

April 5, 2005

Our Late Pope Was Not Without His Flaws

By Raffaello Colasante

I woke up Sunday morning eager to check whether FC Juventus had won their weekly Serie A match, but a little surprise was awaiting me: no soccer that Sunday. Why? Apparently because "the holiest man on Earth" had died th...

April 4, 2005

Spring Cleaning

By system

I don't quite understand why celebrities tend to die in clusters. Johnnie Cochran, Terri Schiavo, the pope and - most tragically - Mitch Hedberg all croaked within a few days of each other, and it seems like this sort of...

April 4, 2005

Bedhead Diaries: The Confessions of a Girly Athlete

By Meghan Palma

I was never an athlete in high school. I did, however, secretly want to join the girl's lacrosse team - solely because they got to wear plaid skirts that I totally would've rocked on a regular day, a la "Clueless," and b...

April 4, 2005

What to Expect With Students’ Party

By Chaz Whatley Adam Graff Kelly Burns Felica Cruz

As Students' Party is comprised of students with very diverse backgrounds and political opinions, when we sat down to craft our party platform, we ran into a bit of a problem: Diverse backgrounds lead to diverse views.

March 31, 2005

For a Good Time… Don’t Call

By system

A recent survey by Virgin Mobile found that 95 percent of its cell phone customers dial under the influence (DUI). This is probably larger than the percentage of Americans who believe the world is round.