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Strutting With Pride

May 19, 2004 by Kate Rice

You know it when you see it. It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday, and a girl walks by your house carrying her Steve Maddens, make-up smeared from here to next Tuesday, hair messed up beyond recognition and in ...
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Leftovers

May 19, 2004 by

NBC extended Carson Daly's contract to host "Last Call" through 2007. In related news, the weatherhuman extended its personal commitment to change the channel immediately at the end of Conan O'Brien t...
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Praising Drag Queens Perpetuates Lack of Treatment for Mentally Ill

May 19, 2004 by Ted Hastings

In February I wrote a letter to the Nexus in which I argued against gay marriage while promoting the "slippery slope" idea that if we accept homosexuality as normal we will soon see the emergence of o...
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Damn Skippy: Two Can Play This Game

May 18, 2004 by Loren Willams

One of my fellow Nexus columnists, Joey Tartakovsky, did a piece last week on the migration of jobs overseas. He interviewed one of UCSB's resident economists about this trend. Tartakovsky is a clever...
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Don’t Get Between the ‘Human and Its Hog

May 18, 2004 by

Who wants to do a good deed by helping out the 'human? Nobody? Ok, who wants to be the 'human for a day and say whatever the hell you want to the whole campus? That's better.
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Nexus Has a Responsibility to Be Culturally Sensitive

May 18, 2004 by Elisha Greenwell

As a member of the black community, I am proud to know that some are willing to fight for equality. As a member of the black community, I am hopeful in knowing that eventually the Nexus will depict al...
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Blue Traffic Lights: Prevailing Against Atrocity

May 17, 2004 by Joey Tartakovsky

It is hard for Americans to see the repulsive images of American soldiers humiliating Iraqi detainees and not think, "I thought we were the ones that didn't do that." But we recognize that the abuses ...
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Civil War

May 17, 2004 by

So I've heard from a lot of people who were apparently upset by my "NorCal" remarks on Friday. I just wanted to say it was all in the name of sport, and I in no way intended to portray NorCal as infer...
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Drunken Bike Racing Has Its Dangers

May 17, 2004 by Mark Signa

Last week I received an e-mail addressing the writer's concerns about the "I.V. Bike Race" that was held in Dog Shit Park a few weeks ago. My first reaction to reading about the bike race was to laugh...
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Parking Survey Statistics Slant the View on Permit Plan

May 17, 2004 by Roberto Rivera

As an Isla Vista resident and a future statistician, I feel it is my duty to share my thoughts regarding the study referred to in the "Parking Research Drives I.V. Planners" (Daily Nexus, May 11) arti...
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Drag Queens Present a Day of Scantily Clad, Eye-Opening Education

May 17, 2004 by Karen Sikola

When I first came to this school, I was under the impression that many of the students here were pretty closed-minded. So I was nervous for the drag queens of the 801 Cabaret in Key West, Fla. when I ...
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Not Planning for Everyone

May 14, 2004 by Oscar Gil

The I.V. Master Plan proposes in its opening statement of the initiation draft to "make strategic adjustments to the way the community is designed and operated, so that it will better suit the needs a...
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In Your Eye

May 14, 2004 by

I love I.V. the most when the Lakers win a big game. I love laughing at the NorCals who pick a new team to root for each week (whoever the Lakers are playing) and talk shit just because there's less t...
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Should ‘Army of One’ Be for All?

May 14, 2004 by Staff

Two recent articles in the Nexus concerning the military draft have stayed much in my mind. One, "Army Recruitment Dangles Deceptive Bait" (April 9, Daily Nexus) frankly censures the military for fois...
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True Patriots Must Acknowledge American War Atrocities in Iraq

May 14, 2004 by Ruben Brosbe

This quarter I am taking History 4B, a class that studies the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Salem Witch Trials and countless atrocities against nonbelievers. Luckily, it's all ancient history - u...
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