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Pump Up Those Orgasms

October 19, 2004 by

Well, the girls weren't the only things getting wet this weekend as the first rains fell upon this little utopia of ours. With the precipitation comes what many consider to be the most romantic weathe...
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Sweetheart Sex Columnist an Improvement on the Past

October 19, 2004 by

Like a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, I can still feel the crippling blows dealt to my faith in humanity whenever I opened the Wednesday issues of the Nexus last year.
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Frivolous Column Ignores UCSB’s Beautiful Colors

October 19, 2004 by

I am responding to the column "Our Hallowed Halls Defiled" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18). I honestly can't believe that I read an article about the new colors of some buildings.
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‘Mentally Disabled’ Insults the Intellectually Disabled

October 19, 2004 by

In Sherilyn Baker's article ("UCSB Program Seeks Friends for Mentally Disabled," Daily Nexus, Oct. 11), I was misinterpreted. It says I used the words "mental disabilities," when in fact I said "intel...
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Frivolous Column Dead On About University’s Ugliness

October 19, 2004 by

This isn't necessarily a letter but rather congratulations on Brendan Buhler's column "Our Hallowed Halls Defiled" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18) on the ugliness of UCSB. I've heard of "University of Casual S...
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Liberals Aren’t Commies in a World Bent on Insanity

October 19, 2004 by

In response to the article by Justin Ruhge ("Liberals, Ever Heard Of Communism?" Daily Nexus, Oct. 18), it should be said that the foundation of any liberal sentiment is not to further any communist o...
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Let’s Declare a Cease-Fire Between Rapists, Victims

October 19, 2004 by

This week is the second annual "I Want A Truce" campaign, put on by Students Stopping Rape and Men Against Rape. The campaign is inspired by a speech by Andrea Dworkin.
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Our Hallowed Halls Defiled

October 18, 2004 by

Welcome to the University of Colors that Scare the Blind. Take Isla Vista Theater, which you may have already observed through disposable tinted glasses left over from the most recent solar eclipse.
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Good Citizenship

October 18, 2004 by

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election. It's important to practice voting now so you'll be extra prepared when it comes time to elect me for A.S. president later this year.
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I Think Our Founding Fathers Got It Right

October 18, 2004 by

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

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

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

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

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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