Opinion

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."

May 28, 2004

American Citizens Need Not Fear Our Government

By Jessica Lavash

I was terrified of my bathroom when I was five. My neighbor told me that there were spies from the government who were listening in there. As I grew older, I realized that he was another one of the many paranoid meth lab...

May 28, 2004

Reduce Your Chances of I.V. Rape by Partying Intelligently

By Chris Lauritzen

The following is a response to Maria Harutyunyan's Wednesday column ("Rapists Should Own Up to Their Crimes," Daily Nexus, May 26). First, I agree, as I hope we all do, with Maria's contempt for those who peruse the part...

May 27, 2004

Shake on It

By system

Two days left, and I'm getting all emotional. The guy from I.V. Bakery called in response to yesterday's box, offering 10 cents for every time I visited the store.

May 27, 2004

Knock: Confessions of a Cynic

By Drew Atkins

Being cynical but not burned out, one is put in an uneven spot. On one hand, you remain relatively open minded to most things and people, and this mind state fills life with a certain verve.

May 27, 2004

Drugstore Cowboy: Nary an Ashtray or Parking Spot in Sight

By Cory Anthony

It's been a nice hiatus. Unfortunately, since I've taken a long break from nothing, all things I.V. and UCSB went to hell. Some jackass in the administration must've finally realized the foolishness of putting ashtrays r...

May 27, 2004

Don’t Underestimate the Compassion of Students

By Alicia Woempner

This article is a response to Neil Visalvanich's "Students Shouldn't Fund a Campaign Shrouded in Mystery" (Daily Nexus, May 25). One of Mr. Visalvanich's main points is that UCSB students do not know what Killer Coke mea...

May 27, 2004

The Dwindling Days of Freshman Year Spent Waxing Poetic

By Anthony Manganaro

Last week, I was supposed to write a poem for my English class. It's fun writing poems because nobody understands them. You could write "A blue cup, washing in the wind" and accept praise for it.

May 26, 2004

Tick, Tick, Tick

By system

With three days left in my career, here are three things I've been meaning to get off my chest. I have to tell the lady at I.V. Bakery that I've noticed her habit of shorting me by 10 cents on my change (every time), and...