Opinion

July 7, 2004

Friends Without Benefits

By system

So I'm sure people are all a-twitter about the Friends finale. I think it might be a while before another sitcom that big comes along.

July 7, 2004

Bedhead Diaries: Is All That Beauty Worth the Pain?

By Meghan Palma

The ancient Chinese had foot binding and we have Brazilian bikini waxes. It's not a revolutionary concept - people will go to extreme lengths for the sake of being beautiful. Beauty is power in many senses, and so, natur...

July 7, 2004

America, EAB Do It Right Environmentally

By Emily Howgate Will Routh

As British students studying here at UCSB, we have obviously had many new experiences. UCSB has introduced us to such delights as sunshine, Woodstock's pizza and a multitude of highly motivated student organizations.

July 7, 2004

UCSB Screws the Disabled When It Comes to Parking

By Josh Bernstein

The one thing that has become apparent to me since attending college is that Wu-Tang Clan was right: "Cash rules everything around me." UCSB is no exception.

June 30, 2004

A Dilemma at a Discount

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Be careful what you wish for - it just might turn around and bite you in the ass. Two weeks ago, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a revised version of the Isla Vista parking plan that addresses many...

June 30, 2004

Rent-a-Friend

By system

Change is in the air at the weatherhouse. The weatherhousemates are being forced to relocate because their greek organization is threatening to charge them several hundred dollars if they don't move into the animal house...

June 30, 2004

Just ‘Moore’ Clowning Around?

By Neil Visalvanich

In America, it's become customary to start things off with a bang. After all, our two longest standing traditions are shooting things and buying things - preferably shooting the things we've bought. America being the way...

June 3, 2004

A Final Word from the Former Editor-in-Chief

By Brendan Buhler

On Tuesday, I was sitting in a chair at Energy Tattoo as P.J. Ferrante ran his needle over my flesh and I started thinking about my being editor in chief of the Daily Nexus for the last two years. "Oh God, this fucking h...

June 3, 2004

Secretly Not a Blond(e)?

By system

Like, oh my god, it's time for a new weatherhuman!!! I'm totally sure I'll be able to keep my gender unknown next year! I can totally keep a secret... like when Ashley and Brad hooked up at Ashley's party (my other Ashle...

June 3, 2004

Bedhead Diaries: Sweet Home Isla Vista

By Meghan Palma

When your life here feels worlds away from life back home, issues of identity inevitably come into play as the struggle to balance the two becomes increasingly necessary to sustain sanity. But though I spend much of my t...

June 3, 2004

The Artful Dodger: The Lone Trek to Super Seniordom

By Drew Mackie

It's June. This year - my senior year of college - is nearly done, yet I keep thinking about books I read in grade school. You know the kind.

June 3, 2004

So What Did You Say?

By Drew Mackie

"I faced the facts: I am a 21-year-old male - the worst demographic to rent to, bar none. We are dirty, we get drunk and break stuff, we don't even own vacuums and the only time our apartments are clean are when our moms...

May 28, 2004

Goodbye from the Box

By system

Bye, Nexites. We did it every night, and we did it good. Funny, fearless geniuses who can handle their liquor - I'd be lucky to work with a group like you again.

May 28, 2004

Sunburns and Suntans

By Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Shiny, greased-up suntans to the newly established Pita Pit for providing a yummy late-night alternative to Freebirds. Itchy, scratchy sunburns to the I.V. parking plan proposal for charging us up the ass for permits tha...

May 28, 2004

Damn Skippy: What Happened to the Family?

By Loren Willams

Everyone in the political world loves the Family. They may not like their own families, as the second or even third marriages of our upstanding leaders tell us, but they love Families.

May 28, 2004

One Political Journey Comes to an End

By Nicholas Romero

It began for me with the fire marshal commanding me to take down political paraphernalia off my door in the on-campus dorms because it was unpopular during the election season and "it would possibly catch fire."