Opinion

April 13, 2004

Respect Our Troops Overseas; They’re All Grown Up Now

By Sarah La Due

Ms. Tavares, give your friend George some credit. He's not that kid you picked up from the football game anymore. In fact, he's not a kid at all. George is an adult, and he is an American. In this country, citizens are f...

April 13, 2004

Nexus Photos Alert the Community to Criminals Regardless of Color

By Henry Sarria

Sometimes I just don't get it. Maybe the problem is that some people are very stupid. The people I'm referring to are the ones complaining about the Daily Nexus's coverage of Riccardo Apollo King's arrest last Thursday n...

April 12, 2004

Wiener

By system

Wow, another correction. If we don't quit fucking up, I'm never going to have enough space to tell a joke again. Please hold your applause. Monday's forecast: A cheap one-liner, because nothing else will fit. The Pentago...

April 12, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: Addressing Anti-Americanism

By Joey Tartakovsky

In order to properly understand our present predicament, we must know that the philosophy of anti-Americanism exists in a different class of thought from anti-U.S. criticism. The former is a prejudice, an irrational atti...

April 12, 2004

SAC Crosses Line Between Fairness and Politics

By Adam Graff

I will likely make many enemies for writing this column. That said, the story which I am about to recount to you involves actions so heinous and so utterly impolitic that I have no choice but to expose those responsible ...

April 12, 2004

Don’t Blame Health Problems on Vegetarian Diets

By Bo Bell

Many people who live vegetarian live longer and have more energy, mental alacrity, and sex drive - and kill no other living beings in the process.

April 12, 2004

Researcher Doesn’t Apologize for Controversial Porn Workshop

By Alejandro Juarez

As a queer person of color, there are distinct moments in your life that serve as markers for personal growth: learning to love your skin and your culture, coming out of the closet and pissing off conservatives enough to...

April 12, 2004

Yet Another Nexus Photo Demonstrates Racial Bias

By Chad Volstedt

I see that once again the Daily Nexus jumps on another chance to cast shame upon the minority community. What a treat to open the paper and see an arrest of a person of color captured in photo for the world to see.

April 9, 2004

End Violence in Isla Vista

By Harry Nelson

These days I rarely walk from my home on the West Campus to Del Playa Drive on weekend nights; perhaps only two or three times so far this year. When I do, someone yells "Aren't you a bit old" or "Street person" at me. A...

April 9, 2004

Friday Day – My Favorite Holiday

By system

The Governator announced a couple days ago that he is thinking of changing our State Legislature from full to part time. He thinks they might be more efficient that way.

April 9, 2004

Army Recruitment Dangles Deceptive Bait

By Stephanie Tavares

My younger brother's friend George is in Iraq. At least, I'll call him George although that's not his real name. He is a happy-go-lucky, lanky guy. Like all of my younger brother's friends, he is a bit mischievous in tha...

April 9, 2004

Let Me Eat My Steak in Peace, You Militant Vegetarians

By Henry Sarria

Beef. It's what's for dinner; at least in my house, as I am proud to declare my membership in the omnivore club. It's not as if red meat is on the menu every night. But in my home a steak never goes uneaten and neither d...

April 9, 2004

Mixed-Race Dating Woes Stem From Societal Ills

By Bert Viloria

This letter is in response to Meghan Palma's article ("White Guys, Yellow Fever; Dating's Just Not Easy," Daily Nexus, April 4). I am a first generation immigrant from the Philippines who moved here when I was 14 years o...

April 9, 2004

Sneak Preview Hot Line

By system

Damn those unlucky few who didn't snag tickets to the "Kill Bill" back-to-back sneak preview double feature. It was the best thing to come to UCSB since the tube top, but because of those few, we lucky ones must speak in...

April 8, 2004

A.S. It Is: A.S. Isn’t Just People You Elect

By Joel Galster

You've probably noticed that the bike paths are all cluttered with red, yellow and green signs urging you to vote in the upcoming Associated Students. elections. If you have noticed them, you probably already know that t...

April 8, 2004

Thin Line Between Drugs and Hate

By system

Next, a little bit of hate for the finest bunch of assholes on campus - the parking Nazis. You paper my truck every time I forget to display my permit.