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Quick, Pack Up Your Belongings

September 30, 2005 by Lauren Creamer

If you had to pack up your life in a single suitcase what would you take? At 3 a.m. yesterday, my friend Carly, an Oak Park resident, learned she had to pack what she could because her neighborhood wa...
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Who’s the Baaaaby?

September 30, 2005 by

Who's the big college student? Yesh you are. Yesh you are. Who's the big independent person doing whatever they want in class, like reading the 'human? Yesh you are. Yesh you are.
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Cool Off I.V., Heckling Just Goes Too Far

September 30, 2005 by Mike Rathbun

You're at a 10. We need you at like a 2. I had looked forward to the first weekend of the school year all summer. There's more beer than even we Gauchos know what to do with, and nubile, young freshme...
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Cycling Inability Leaves Freshman Blaming GOLD

September 30, 2005 by David Ferry

An open letter to that girl I hit on my bike yesterday. My bad. Seriously, it probably sucked pretty hard to be you at like 8:45 a.m. yesterday, face down on the grass outside of FT with your backpack...
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Facebook Write-Ups Just Another Bogus UC Policy

September 30, 2005 by George Flaherty

Even though I am a graduate student, I was compelled to write in after reading your article, ("Facebookers To Face Write-Ups for Dorm Photos," Daily Nexus, Sept. 29). This new non-policy (it appears n...
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US News Coverage Lacking When Compared Abroad

September 30, 2005 by Ashleigh Talberth

I am writing in response to Katy Tur's article on the physical appearance of news reporters ("News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum's Report Card," Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). Personally, I am sick of Am...
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Lying Your Way Through Life

September 29, 2005 by Nick Pasto

We all have hobbies. Some people fly kites. Some people read books. Some people eat a lot food and then intentionally puke it back up. Some people do all of the aforementioned things.
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Error’d

September 29, 2005 by

The 'human is drowning
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Investigating Meaning Within the Irrelevant Blog

September 29, 2005 by Chris Trenchard

I knew the blog had officially arrived when I decided to start one. Usually the last one on any bandwagon, I jumped on right after reading a New York Times journalist's blog about a frontline U.S. sol...
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I am Nina, Hear Me Roargasm

September 28, 2005 by Nina Anthony

The first week of school is always the same - full of endless introductions and overviews. Professors know how warped our minds are from the summer sunshine, and most of them very gently and slowly ea...
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Dan Brown

September 28, 2005 by

So the 'human has hopped on the Da Vinci Code train. It's not quite as exciting as the trains I'm used to, but at least I'll be able to walk in the morning.
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Something Even the Mighty Bong Can’t Beat

September 28, 2005 by Jeff Gibson

It was Sunday morning, about 9:30 - the time when I'm usually hitting the halfway point of the best sleep I've managed to grab over the past week. The time when I should be dreaming of endless fields ...
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Housing Lottery Lacks Economic Sagacity

September 28, 2005 by Colin Marshall

Every year, students apply for on-campus housing and parking. Busy praying that they'll be granted a place to sleep and a patch of asphalt where their car will be keyed less, they don't think twice ab...
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News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum’s Report Card

September 28, 2005 by Katy Tur

Having just graduated from college in June and having taken my first step into the working world, I have noticed a few things. I recently began a job at a news station in Los Angeles.
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Do I Know You From Somewhere?

September 27, 2005 by Bri Lafond

Here we are, back in class, back in those uncomfortable desks, back to fighting to keep yourself awake during that post-lunch foray into your general education requirements. Just as inevitable as the ...
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