Opinion

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

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

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

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

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...

May 25, 2004

Students Shouldn’t Fund a Campaign Shrouded in Mystery

By Neil Visalvanich

I've been at UCSB for three years now, and each year some student organization is protesting something new. Every now and then, the Arbor devolves into something like a zoo - there's a lot of screaming, and at various ti...

May 25, 2004

Sweet, Sappy Guys Do Their Part to Fight Female Objectification

By Scott Roney

I was tremendously pleased to see Tim Cho's column ("The Key to Women Lies in Relationships," Daily Nexus, May 21) printed in Friday's Nexus. In an environment where women are usually seen merely as sex objects - a view...

May 24, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: Chatting With Lois Capps

By Joey Tartakovsky

The following is an interview with congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara), conducted on Thursday, May 20.

May 24, 2004

Coming Soon: The Weather Reader

By system

Look up at the Nexus staff box today. You'll see a bunch of new names in new places, as we turn over the staff and get ready for next year.

May 24, 2004

Apathetic Briggs Threatens Student Voice

By Todd Roberson

Who is Chandler Briggs and why has he been given the title of "student representative" on Isla Vista Project Area and General Plan Advisory Committees? It appears that he does not know what it means to be a representativ...

May 24, 2004

Rice Dehumanizes TAs as Objects of Sexual Gratification

By Michelle Samura

When angry, take a deep breath and count to 10. I've counted to 10 - 10 days to be exact. I thought the passing of time would help to clear my mind of some of the cloudy haze of frustration, anger and disgust.

May 24, 2004

Not All Women Should Be Seen as Damsels in Distress

By Amanda Maffett

This is in response to "The Key to Women Lies in Relationships" by Timothy Cho (Daily Nexus, May 21). Let me start out with one of his opening lines: "Women were created for men." Should I count how many ways I disagree ...

May 21, 2004

Challenging Your Beliefs

By Tiye Baldwin

Strict adherence to any ideology is the very definition of rigid thinking. To accept a particular line of thought unflinchingly is to imply that your own wisdom is boundless.