Opinion
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Canadians will now have to show their passports when crossing the U.S. border. I suppose that's a good idea.
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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...
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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. Bo...
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
