Opinion

May 6, 2004

Ban Could Eliminate Boozin’ in the Park

By Diane Conn

Today, the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (IVRPD) Board of Directors will consider banning the consumption of alcohol in all I.V. parks unless park-goers have a permit. Currently alcohol is banned in some parks ...

May 6, 2004

Knock: In Case You Wondered Why Drew Atkins Isn’t Talking to You in Class

By Drew Atkins

My housemate Donkey is like an old woman sometimes, especially around the end of each quarter. This is when he really starts nagging me. Where are you going to live next year, Drew?

May 6, 2004

Queer Wedding Speaker Should Respect Even Opposing Opinions

By Vickie Edwards

Last Friday as I was passing by Storke Plaza I took a moment to see what was going on. The first words I heard were, "We have gotten nothing but support from everyone - that is until a few days ago. In fact, I am going t...

May 6, 2004

Satire of Sex Clones in Mackie’s Column Totally Missed by Maffet

By Neil Visalvanich

This is in response to Amanda Maffett's letter regarding Drew Mackie's column in last Thursday's paper ("Drew Says: Cloning Opens Up a New World of Possibilities - in Bed," April 29, Daily Nexus).

May 6, 2004

Charity or Not, Sex and Violence Can Send a Nasty Message to Kids

By Sion Lim

Crowds cheering, fists flying and hot girls dancing away. Sounds more like something on Spike TV, but nope, it was all done in the name of charity. I just find it ironic that violence and sex can be merited as good works...

May 6, 2004

Joey’s Latest Column Abounds With Contradiction, Hypocrisy

By Orin Harris

I found Joey Tartakovsky's column, "The Ruthlessness of Terrorism" (Daily Nexus, May 3), to be stunningly hypocritical because of his previously stated support for the war in Iraq.

May 5, 2004

Hating the Haters

By system

I'd like to use today's space to clear a colleague's name. He wrote a column last week imagining the glorious sexual possibilities presented by cloning.

May 5, 2004

Beneath the Sexual Radar

By Kate Rice

It seems that people these days are just bursting with bizarre and morbid curiosity. From charged nipple clamps to glow-in-the-dark butt plugs, chances are if man can create it, someone, somewhere is going to have a feti...

May 5, 2004

The Reader

By Stephanie Redden

This is in response to Briyanna Maatuk's article "When Did College Become All About Sex?" (Daily Nexus, May 3). What it took Maatuk four years at UCSB to discover about Isla Vista, most students at any university figured...

May 4, 2004

Kids, Don’t Hold Guns, M’Kay?

By system

A federal drug agent was giving a gun safety presentation in Orlando a few days ago when he accidentally shot himself in the leg.

May 4, 2004

Damn Skippy: A Battle for Free Speech

By Loren Willams

I don't like the way that the battle against obscenity is going. I'm convinced that ultimately the battle will be lost, much to my delight. For some reason, Americans find the word "fuck" much too titillating to do witho...

May 4, 2004

Clones Are More Than Just Tits, Ass and DNA; They’re People, Too

By Amanda Maffett

This is in response to Drew Mackie's opinion on human cloning in "Cloning Opens Up a New World of Possibilities - in Bed" (Daily Nexus, April 29). This is in response to Drew Mackie's opinion on human cloning in "Cloning...

May 3, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: The Ruthlessness of Terrorism

By Joey Tartakovsky

Terrorism is often whitewashed as an inevitable reaction to injustice and oppression. But this idea is a deceitful one because it is self-justifying - that is, it is always true: Terrorism, by its very existence, serves ...

May 3, 2004

Poop

By system

Goddamned sonuvabitchin' shit-ass.

May 3, 2004

When Did College Become All About Sex?

By Briyanna Maatuk

It is only in my last year here that I have noticed that UCSB is a world of its own. The fact that I haven't "gone home for the weekend" for the past three years has given me a chance to observe the way people interact i...

May 3, 2004

Not All Cubans Think Alike; Dictators Have Fan Clubs, Too

By Katrina Hale

While I feel for Henry Sarria's necessary emigration from his native Cuba ("A T-shirt With a History, Daily Nexus, April 30), I feel that I must point out that one ex-patriot cannot speak for an entire dispersed nation o...