Opinion

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

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

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

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

The End of an Affair

By Kate Rice

All good things must come to an end. "Seinfeld," the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the reign of the Roman Empire and in turn, my love affair with the Daily Nexus.

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...

May 26, 2004

Rapists Should Own Up to Their Crimes

By Maria Harutyunyan

Two of my friends were almost raped this year. Two. I never thought that it would happen to anyone I know, and since no one around me had ever been affected by this before I moved away to college, I've never been so clos...

May 26, 2004

Don’t Let Authoritarianism Creep Its Way Into Society

By Michael Drew

In the political arena, there seem to be only two sides to events - the Republicans and Democrats. There is little talk about any other alternatives today. While both sides battle each other to reign American society, I...

May 26, 2004

A Nexus Liaison Eliminates the Chances of Biased Journalism

By Christina Craig

The opinion column by Scott Talkov, "True Free Speech Can't Be Censored" (Daily Nexus, May 20) argued against A.S. Legislative Council's proposed liaison with the belief that "we are to trust our campus newspaper as a fa...

May 26, 2004

University Needs to Maintain DP’s Coastal Bluffs, Roads

By Rebecca Loman

The path from Isla Vista to Sands Beach has always been popular with students and the Isla Vista community. The university improved the dirt path in 1986, when faculty housing was constructed, and it has since been ignor...

May 25, 2004

Riding the Short Bike

By system

Did you see Bush on TV last night, with his face all scraped up from a bike crash? I'm not going to give him a hard time for it because I got a pretty bad bump on the head from a crash on DP a while back.

May 25, 2004

Aspirations Are Born Young

By Jacqueline Whalen

Campus Outreach Program: $3 million. Cost of a college education in 10 years: $60,000 per year. Being inspired at the age of seven to achieve your dreams: priceless. Just try explaining that to Adam Pinson.

May 25, 2004

The Artful Dodger: Our Asses Are Taking Over the World

By Drew Mackie

We've become our own asses, people. Being called an "ass" is nothing new for me. Back when I knew it as the "a-word," it was one of the first obscenities I had ever learned. When someone's acting foolish, he or she is ca...