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Aspirations Are Born Young

May 25, 2004 by Jacqueline Whalen

Campus Outreach Program: $3 million. Cost of a college education in 10 years: $60,000 per year. Being inspired at the age of seven to achieve your dreams: priceless. Just try explaining that to Adam P...
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Riding the Short Bike

May 25, 2004 by

Did you see Bush on TV last night, with his face all scraped up from a bike crash? I'm not going to give him a hard time for it because I got a pretty bad bump on the head from a crash on DP a while b...
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The Artful Dodger: Our Asses Are Taking Over the World

May 25, 2004 by Drew Mackie

We've become our own asses, people. Being called an "ass" is nothing new for me. Back when I knew it as the "a-word," it was one of the first obscenities I had ever learned. When someone's acting fool...
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Students Shouldn’t Fund a Campaign Shrouded in Mystery

May 25, 2004 by Neil Visalvanich

I've been at UCSB for three years now, and each year some student organization is protesting something new. Every now and then, the Arbor devolves into something like a zoo - there's a lot of screamin...
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Sweet, Sappy Guys Do Their Part to Fight Female Objectification

May 25, 2004 by Scott Roney

I was tremendously pleased to see Tim Cho's column ("The Key to Women Lies in Relationships," Daily Nexus, May 21) printed in Friday's Nexus. In an environment where women are usually seen merely as ...
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Coming Soon: The Weather Reader

May 24, 2004 by

Look up at the Nexus staff box today. You'll see a bunch of new names in new places, as we turn over the staff and get ready for next year.
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Blue Traffic Lights: Chatting With Lois Capps

May 24, 2004 by Joey Tartakovsky

The following is an interview with congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara), conducted on Thursday, May 20.
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Apathetic Briggs Threatens Student Voice

May 24, 2004 by Todd Roberson

Who is Chandler Briggs and why has he been given the title of "student representative" on Isla Vista Project Area and General Plan Advisory Committees? It appears that he does not know what it means t...
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Rice Dehumanizes TAs as Objects of Sexual Gratification

May 24, 2004 by Michelle Samura

When angry, take a deep breath and count to 10. I've counted to 10 - 10 days to be exact. I thought the passing of time would help to clear my mind of some of the cloudy haze of frustration, anger and...
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Not All Women Should Be Seen as Damsels in Distress

May 24, 2004 by Amanda Maffett

This is in response to "The Key to Women Lies in Relationships" by Timothy Cho (Daily Nexus, May 21). Let me start out with one of his opening lines: "Women were created for men." Should I count how m...
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Self Examination

May 21, 2004 by

When my teacher announced in class yesterday that the quiz we had scheduled for that day was postponed, people immediately started getting up and heading for the exits.
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Challenging Your Beliefs

May 21, 2004 by Tiye Baldwin

Strict adherence to any ideology is the very definition of rigid thinking. To accept a particular line of thought unflinchingly is to imply that your own wisdom is boundless.
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The Key to Women Lies in Relationships

May 21, 2004 by Timothy Cho

Here is the humbling truth about men and women. Women were created for men, and men cannot live without women. Women are beautiful. No matter what the size, shape, age or any other physical variables ...
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Issues Within Iraqi War Are Not in Black and White

May 21, 2004 by Adam Al-Sarraf

In this time of war and occupation in Iraq, we, the American public, are being told by the mainstream media that there are only two sides, two opinions to this situation; you are either pro-war or ant...
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Don’t Waste Outreach Dollars on Kiddies Who Don’t Know Better

May 21, 2004 by Adam Pinson

"Hi!" "Giggle, giggle." "Give me five." These are the words of junior high and little elementary kids that are amazed at me passing by them on my bike on my way to class, rather than the university th...
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