Opinion

October 30, 2003

How the Grinch Stole Halloween

By Staff

"Halloween in Isla Vista: The Party Is Over." This is the subject line of the anti-fun e-mail that Richard Jenkins at the Office of Student Life sent out to students at UCSB, schools across California and schools nearby ...

October 30, 2003

Will Your Politics Be on the Final, Professors?

By Drew Mackie

Students don't pay for lectures about why the president is an asshole when they should be teaching them how to make a macaroni sculpture or interpret Dostoyevsky. Neither should they expect to learn about a professor's b...

October 30, 2003

Halloween Could Be Fun if I.V. Were a Democracy

By Jay Freeman

On Monday I realized a much more important side of the issue: Our ability to party this Halloween is directly proportional to the amount of democratic might we wield over our own destinies. Isla Vista, the people. Yes.

October 30, 2003

Dating Game Puts All of the Cards in Men’s Hands

By Katherine Drabiak

Straight flush. As the cards are dealt, the expressionless poker face overtakes the features, suppressing emotion and sense of honesty. My poker history of interests reads like a failed tournament: too much honesty and t...

October 29, 2003

Badger the Badge, Please

By Mark Signa

This letter begins what I hope will be a continuing series promoting communication between the students of UCSB and law enforcement of our area.

October 29, 2003

Weatherfever-Catch It!

By Staff

Why do I have to get sick? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? And how will I bring laughter to the masses when I can't even breathe?

October 29, 2003

Just in Time for Halloween: the UCSB Boogeyman

By John Eggart

I would just like to say how extremely disappointed I am in the tone and nature of the email distributed to the UCSB student body.

October 29, 2003

A Backdoor to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!

By Christina Huff

The sexual revolution in the last few decades has opened the backdoor to previously unacceptable sex practices.

October 29, 2003

Curvy Cate Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Skinny Minnie

By Sam Defranceschi

Beautiful - "having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight." Sexy - "arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest."

October 28, 2003

He Said, She Said: Are Cop Costumes a Good Idea?

By Daniel Haier

If there's one way to avoid attention from the law this Halloween, it's to be the law. Dressing as police officers will provide you and your friends the opportunity to live out every law enforcement fantasy you've ever c...

October 28, 2003

Pre-Marinate For Best Results

By The Weatherhuman

A storm is coming. It's coming from where you're from. It's your friends from back home. And boy, are they jazzed about coming to IV for Halloween.

October 28, 2003

He Said, She Said: Are Cop Costumes a Good Idea?

By Kristina Ackermann

For those of you thinking about being your favorite Isla Vista Foot Patrol officer for Halloween, here are some reasons to reconsider. First, it's illegal. Now that that's out of the way, let's pretend it's not -just for...

October 28, 2003

Nexus Misses One Piece In Art Photos: Artist’s Name

By Robert Weschler

Last week I was impressed to find how newsworthy my recent activities have been. I was honored to find not one, but two photographs involving my recent work on the front page of the campus newspaper.

October 28, 2003

Letter Slips Down Slope to Just Plain Name-Calling

By Bredan Getzell

In his Oct. 27 ("Assault on Marriage Protection Falls Flat," Daily Nexus) response to Loren Williams' Thursday column "Marriage Protection Week is a Time to Fight Love," Scott Roney argues that Williams' support of gay m...

October 27, 2003

Where’s Baldo?

By Staff

As sure as there's an American dream, there's an IV dream. Baldo lived it to its depraved extent. He hotboxed FT. He stole booze from the local marts and hats from sorority girls.

October 27, 2003

Blue Traffic Lights: Shades of Gray: Little Certainty in World Affairs

By Joey Tartakovsky

Being for peace should not mean perpetually opposing the use of the U.S. Military abroad, for that is the peace of the ideologue: because the deployment of U.S. soldiers is surely interlaced with imperialism, it must alw...