Opinion

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

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

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

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...

January 23, 2004

Full Moon Fleecing

By The Weatherhuman

I ran into the Wolf at the store yesterday. I was on my guard, as I always am when around him.

January 23, 2004

Theft Of Nexus Copies Angers Even the Gaucho Free Press

By Nicholas Romero

Casually reading the Nexus on Thursday of last week, I was made aware of the newspaper's theft. If one has read my work of the past two years, one might assume that I didn't give a damn that "the competition" had their w...

January 22, 2004

Rape or Race Coverage?

By Cordaun Dudley Josiah Bournes and Brandon Jenkins

Undoubtedly you have heard about the sexual battery case that occurred in Santa Rosa Hall last Saturday. The police and faculty went to great lengths to spark what they deemed awareness on campus. What did the press rele...

January 22, 2004

Stay Hot in the Cold

By system

What has fuzzy feet and bare legs and looks funny riding a bike? The UCSB females who have embraced the Ugg boot and miniskirt look.

January 22, 2004

You Can Only Say Bush Sucks In the Free World

By Henry Sarria

It made my head spin, but an epiphany came to me: We're one of the few nations that will allow such analysis and opinion in response to a speech by our leaders. Don't dare try this in North Korea, Iran, China or my homel...

January 22, 2004

Check Out Buttny’s Record and Decide for Yourself

By John Buttney

After a few hours in Isla Vista, the other candidates for 3rd District supervisor have said what they'd like to do. Here's what I've already done and will keep doing.