Opinion

April 8, 2004

Bedhead Diaries: White Guys, Yellow Fever; Dating’s Just Not Easy

By Meghan Palma

People from back home sometimes ask me what it's like being a minority in a community that is dominated by white people. I usually smile sweetly and respond, "I don't see race. It's just not an issue with me."

April 8, 2004

What Is It, Exactly, That Affects All of You People?

By Susan Landgraff

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It Affects Me is part of a campuswide campaign to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault in our community. Don't think you're affected? One woman in four, by the time she r...

April 8, 2004

This Is America, Folks: Even Offensive Speech Is Protected

By Josh Rodine

I'm deeply and constantly troubled by the sentiment expressed by Christine Bai in her column ("Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays" Daily Nexus, April 6)

April 8, 2004

UCSB Administrators Could Use Some Motherly Advice

By Dianna Hosley

Didn't your mother tell you to put things back where you found them? Since Fall, I think - I don't even know how long it's been - we have been without bike racks at the UCen.

April 7, 2004

Lend Me Your Helmet

By system

On Tuesday I had a guest lecturer in my Sports Appreciation class (I figure my last quarter of college is a great time to challenge myself) talking about "cycling for fitness.

April 7, 2004

Nookie With Neighbors

By Kate Rice

Young, privileged people in college communities are always seeking instant gratification. Most would say that such situations create an ideal that we can always have what we want whenever we want it, including sexual sat...

April 7, 2004

King, Parks, Newsom: Pioneers for Change

By Neil Visalvanich

In Nicholas Romero's opinion piece on gay marriage, he claims that because California state law explicitly prohibits gay marriage, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's issuance of marriage licenses to gay couples was legal...

April 6, 2004

Knock: Welcome to UCSB; Now Leave

By Drew Atkins

Seeing the herds of casually dressed adults and bright-eyed youngsters making their way through campus, I feel threatened. I don't like these people. They bother me. I want to see them gone.

April 6, 2004

Don’t Trust Infomercials When Dealing With Cops

By Mark Signa

I got a speeding ticket and the cops were using radar. I read the book on how to fight radar and it seemed pretty easy, but when I got to court, the judge wouldn't let me ask all of the questions that the book said to as...

April 6, 2004

Art School Expels Overly Creative and Offensive Student

By Lauren Girard

When someone brings up the subject of suppression of free speech, I tend to think of right-wing hatemongers who want to use their Second Amendment rights to shoot the First Amendment in the back of the head.

April 6, 2004

Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays

By Christine Bai

I was extremely sickened by this month's issue of Details magazine. In the April 2004 issue, author Whitney McNally writes a nasty article about Asian men with a title that reads "Gay or Asian?".

April 6, 2004

Insiders Notes on Iranian Politics and All of Its Dangers

By Sam Kamyans

It is of obvious consequence that the events on 9/11 rendered the world a different place. Many of the actions the United States has taken, whether unilaterally or with international support, can be directly linked to th...

April 5, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: One Major Breach in Security…

By Joey Tartakovsky

One bright morning in 1999, former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke walked into his office and knew something was wrong. His secretary of 10 years was looking at him in a way she never had before. A minute later,...

April 5, 2004

Skid Plaza

By system

Did you see the destruction around Storke Plaza after this weekend? There was trash everywhere. It looked more like a place to get heroin than a place to relax and study.

April 5, 2004

Correction: I’m the Champ

By system

The weatherhuman has once again won the prestigious weatherhouse NCAA pool.

April 5, 2004

The Cruel Repercussions of Newsom’s Actions

By Nicholas Romero

There are two conclusions that must be drawn from the same-sex marriage license debacle in San Francisco: One, marriage and monogamy can be considered normative human appreciations that cross the line of sexual orientati...