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I Think Our Founding Fathers Got It Right

October 18, 2004 by Dave Pomerantz

It frightens me that a man who teaches government at the high school level should have such a fundamental misunderstanding of a key facet of the Constitution and our representative government.
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Liberals, Ever Heard of Communism?

October 18, 2004 by J. M. Ruhge

You students pay a fortune of your own and your parents' money to attend UCSB to get an education, but what you are getting is a thorough brainwashing by the left-wing bunch of professors that infest ...
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I See Mr. Namath’s Potential, So Sack Up And Unleash Him

October 18, 2004 by Troy Greenberg

At the beginning of this school year, the new sex columnist promised us that his penis would be doing the writing. But instead he writes with a surrogate vagina.
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Before You Criticize, Know Your Countries’ Ideologies

October 18, 2004 by Stefan Sharma

I am responding to your Friday, Oct. 15 printing of the column titled "Americans Ought to Select a More Palatable President" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 15). Elia, you suggest that our current president has er...
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Don’t Let One Rotten Apple Undermine Our Day Of Pride

October 18, 2004 by Kiely Hosmon Co-Chair of Queer Commission

In response to Robert Carrasco's article "Pride Day Ended Up Being Shameful, Not Celebratory" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 14) we'd like to say that if he wanted kittens and bubbles for his National Coming Out ...
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Yay, That Sucks

October 15, 2004 by

If you actually read the paper today, you'll discover that you can go on an all-expenses-paid road trip to Florida to help hurricane victims. Cool! It's like the time I got a cushy job after a co-work...
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Ditch the Electoral College

October 15, 2004 by Eric Olsen

As the elections approach, we should all be reminded that they should be taking a much different form. Were we living in a true democracy, one in which every vote really counted, we would notice one g...
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Americans Ought to Select a More Palatable President

October 15, 2004 by Elia Boggia

Could it really be possible that the American Dream that encouraged, motivated and galvanized half of Europe throughout the 20th century to move to the States in hope of fortune, has run out, leaving ...
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Call It a Dream, but We Could Become Biketopia

October 15, 2004 by Dennis Whelan

Welcome to UCSBicycle, the campus where there are more bikes than cars. Easily. Here, bikes are basic transportation and riding them is akin to driving on the 101 or 405 freeways, and it pays to be al...
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Horribly Stupid Sex Column Could Be Greatly Improved

October 15, 2004 by Michael Weinreich

I am writing this letter to tell you how disappointed I am with the sex columnist this year. The glory days of looking forward to picking up the Wednesday paper are forever lost to me.
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Columnist’s Coitus Doesn’t Make for an Interesting Read

October 15, 2004 by Devon Bennett

As I was reading the Nexus on Wednesday I was extremely disappointed when I got to the Wednesday Hump ("Love Over Sex," Daily Nexus, Oct. 13). This was an incredibly unimaginative article.
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Made Elsewhere

October 14, 2004 by

Yesterday some bozo said the Weather sucks this year. Unfortunately, he may be right; the budget crunch has forced the Nexus to outsource the Weatherhuman to writers in Bangalore, India, so quality ma...
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Clearance!

October 14, 2004 by Mark Signa

Well, it's the third week of school already, and we are getting a bunch of thefts reported to us. Bikes and laptops are being taken by some pretty unscrupulous crooks. Like there are scrupulous crooks...
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Tying The Knot Isn’t Too Bad After All

October 14, 2004 by Henry Sarria

When I told Daily Nexus Opinion Editor Meghan Palma that I was getting married this summer, she said that maybe I could write a column on married life. After all, my bachelor status was the longest ru...
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Dualist Ideals In The UN

October 14, 2004 by Neer Lerner

The United Nations was founded as an international institution intended to promote peace and global unity while fighting fascism. Yet, today it has become a forum for Arab nations to vent their politi...
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