Opinion

October 19, 2004

Vegetating

By system

Huzzah for rain! The bright, dry air pains my sensitive night-shift eyes. If I had my way, the entire campus would be a catacombs of interlaced passages connecting cold, clammy subterranean chambers - like the current Br...

October 19, 2004

Sweetheart Sex Columnist an Improvement on the Past

By Colin Marshall

Like a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, I can still feel the crippling blows dealt to my faith in humanity whenever I opened the Wednesday issues of the Nexus last year.

October 19, 2004

Frivolous Column Ignores UCSB’s Beautiful Colors

By Pam Kilroy

I am responding to the column "Our Hallowed Halls Defiled" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18). I honestly can't believe that I read an article about the new colors of some buildings.

October 19, 2004

‘Mentally Disabled’ Insults the Intellectually Disabled

By Elizabeth Wieland

In Sherilyn Baker's article ("UCSB Program Seeks Friends for Mentally Disabled," Daily Nexus, Oct. 11), I was misinterpreted. It says I used the words "mental disabilities," when in fact I said "intellectual disabilities...

October 19, 2004

Frivolous Column Dead On About University’s Ugliness

By Maxwell Decurtins

This isn't necessarily a letter but rather congratulations on Brendan Buhler's column "Our Hallowed Halls Defiled" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18) on the ugliness of UCSB. I've heard of "University of Casual Sex and Beer," but I ...

October 19, 2004

Liberals Aren’t Commies in a World Bent on Insanity

By Samy Amanatullah

In response to the article by Justin Ruhge ("Liberals, Ever Heard Of Communism?" Daily Nexus, Oct. 18), it should be said that the foundation of any liberal sentiment is not to further any communist or socialist agenda, ...

October 19, 2004

Let’s Declare a Cease-Fire Between Rapists, Victims

By Susan Landgraff

This week is the second annual "I Want A Truce" campaign, put on by Students Stopping Rape and Men Against Rape. The campaign is inspired by a speech by Andrea Dworkin.

October 18, 2004

Good Citizenship

By system

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election. It's important to practice voting now so you'll be extra prepared when it comes time to elect me for A.S. president later this year.

October 18, 2004

Our Hallowed Halls Defiled

By Brendan Buhler

Welcome to the University of Colors that Scare the Blind. Take Isla Vista Theater, which you may have already observed through disposable tinted glasses left over from the most recent solar eclipse.

October 18, 2004

I Think Our Founding Fathers Got It Right

By Dave Pomerantz

It frightens me that a man who teaches government at the high school level should have such a fundamental misunderstanding of a key facet of the Constitution and our representative government.

October 18, 2004

Liberals, Ever Heard of Communism?

By J. M. Ruhge

You students pay a fortune of your own and your parents' money to attend UCSB to get an education, but what you are getting is a thorough brainwashing by the left-wing bunch of professors that infest the campus today, in...

October 18, 2004

I See Mr. Namath’s Potential, So Sack Up And Unleash Him

By Troy Greenberg

At the beginning of this school year, the new sex columnist promised us that his penis would be doing the writing. But instead he writes with a surrogate vagina.

October 18, 2004

Before You Criticize, Know Your Countries’ Ideologies

By Stefan Sharma

I am responding to your Friday, Oct. 15 printing of the column titled "Americans Ought to Select a More Palatable President" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 15). Elia, you suggest that our current president has erased decades of good...

October 18, 2004

Don’t Let One Rotten Apple Undermine Our Day Of Pride

By Kiely Hosmon Co-Chair of Queer Commission

In response to Robert Carrasco's article "Pride Day Ended Up Being Shameful, Not Celebratory" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 14) we'd like to say that if he wanted kittens and bubbles for his National Coming Out Day, then he should ...

October 15, 2004

Yay, That Sucks

By system

If you actually read the paper today, you'll discover that you can go on an all-expenses-paid road trip to Florida to help hurricane victims. Cool! It's like the time I got a cushy job after a co-worker was injured badly...

October 15, 2004

Ditch the Electoral College

By Eric Olsen

As the elections approach, we should all be reminded that they should be taking a much different form. Were we living in a true democracy, one in which every vote really counted, we would notice one great difference in t...