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Campuswide Initiatives

April 12, 2005 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...
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Left Lane Driver: Potential Politicians, Sign Off

April 11, 2005 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 t...
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A.S. Blows (in the Wind)

April 11, 2005 by

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.
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A Vote for Torrin is a Vote for Change

April 11, 2005 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 outsi...
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Joining SAC Means Joining the Fight for the Greater Good

April 11, 2005 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.
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Help Prevent Sexual Assaults During ‘Take Back the Night’ Week

April 11, 2005 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 colo...
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Private Dancer: Arrogant Activism

April 8, 2005 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 whatev...
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Knuckleheads

April 8, 2005 by

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.
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Fight Night Shouldn

April 8, 2005 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...
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The Artful Dodger: Drew’s Concussion Follies

April 7, 2005 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 ...
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Take the Big Red Challenge

April 7, 2005 by

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!
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Don’t Undermine the Pope’s Achievements

April 7, 2005 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 inscr...
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Amids Political Agendas, The Right to Live was Forgotten

April 7, 2005 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 storyli...
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College Bookstores are the Bane of This Customer’s Existence

April 7, 2005 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 quarte...
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Sexing Up Your Regimen

April 6, 2005 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 s...
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