Opinion

January 29, 2004

Squeezing Every Last Drop

By Thomas Scheff

Students occasionally ask me how to best take advantage of their four years. Information is cheap, but growth and understanding is hard to come by. Most undergraduates follow the path of least resistance.

January 29, 2004

Reverse Racism Can’t Help Race Relations

By Brian Ford

As America moves toward a brighter future, discrimination continues to plague the way society interacts. A recent article posted in the Nexus titled "Rape or Race Coverage?" (Jan. 22) exemplifies this concept. Beginning ...

January 29, 2004

Misogynist Art Has No Place in Nexus

By Lauren Christie

What the hell is wrong with Chris Calzetta. Is he really as much of an asshole as he makes himself out to be in his illustrations?

January 28, 2004

Get Off His Ass

By system

The 3rd district election is getting ugly as the opposition is trying to sully John Buttny's name. And I don't mean by calling him Assny.

January 28, 2004

Testing, 1, 2, 5

By system

Carpinteria High School just became the first school in the county to test students for drugs. Each week a computer will pick five students from a list of the kids participating in sports or cheerleading.

January 28, 2004

Living in the Land of the Sexiles

By Kate Rice

College is a time when you are forced to make sacrifices. As a freshman you sacrifice mom's home-cooked meals for dorm slop and your own room at home for a hole in the wall that you must share with a random other student...

January 28, 2004

Dean May Be Nutty, but Kerry Lacks Principles

By Nick Romero

Joey Tartakovsky's "Just A Little Nutty, Howie?" (Jan. 26, Daily Nexus), while qualified in its assessment of the Howard Dean demeanor, hastily submits that John Kerry has a "position on nearly every major policy issue."...

January 28, 2004

Don’t Waste Money on Weed, Make Money With It

By Joel Furman

Last weekend I was watching Sunday night prime time FOX. "The Simpsons", "Malcolm in the Middle" - all that good stuff. Unfortunately I saw a commercial that made think. All I wanted to do was veg out. But no, my brain w...

January 28, 2004

Rape or Race Sensationalism Leaves the Victims Behind

By Brian McNally

Well, most UCSB students are aware of the alleged sexual battery in the Santa Rosa Residence Hall Jan. 17, the article printed in the Daily Nexus, "On-Campus Resident Alleges Sexual Battery" (Jan. 21) and the rather dist...

January 27, 2004

Regulation Aggravation

By system

After we finished a game of pool at the UCen yesterday, my colleague pulled a cigarette out of his case, presumably to help him calm down after the savage trouncing he received on the felt. We grabbed our beers and head...

January 27, 2004

Bananas for Cash

By Matt Laine

The other day I was driving along the 217 toward the balmy UCSB campus and enjoying my usual breakfast of apples and bananas, when I took it upon myself to dispose of the banana peel by chucking it out my car window.

January 27, 2004

Door-to-Door Peddlers Mean Risky Business for Students

By Mark Signa

I was recently asked about people selling products door-to-door. It's one thing if it's a local group from the area's schools or local organizations, but buyer beware!

January 26, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: Just a Little Nutty, Howie?

By Joey Tartakovsky

On the surface, it makes little sense: He spent more time and money campaigning in Iowa than any other candidate, and his organization - staffed by an army of dedicated collegians - was by far the largest. Yet the return...

January 26, 2004

Tap Cola

By system

It was on this date in 1945 that a city in Michigan became the first to put fluoride in its tap water. I mention it because the 'human drinks tap water like it was, uh, water, and I like to brag about how much stronger i...

January 26, 2004

Don’t Buy Into the Common Misconceptions About Rape

By Susan Landgraff Sabrina Ullah

In light of the article "Rape or Race Coverage?" (Daily Nexus, Jan. 22), we thought this would be a good opportunity to dispel a very ubiquitous myth about rape and sexual assault. Cordaun Dudley's article makes a very g...

January 23, 2004

Cleaning Up CalPIRG’s Name Mouhibian’s Column Soils the Reputation of Student Group

By Brandon Laws

In the Jan. 15 issue of the Daily Nexus, Alec Mouhibian expressed a rather ignorant and distorted view of the Public Interest Research Groups (the PIRGs) as "totalitarian and anti-human rights" ("Campus Littered With Cal...