Opinion

October 31, 2003

Relief for the Rash-Ridden

By Monique Sherman

Do you have questions about your health but don't have enough time to ask even your permanent couch roommate, a connoisseur of mysterious insect bites, about the effects of an itchy, unknown rash?

October 31, 2003

Cookies ‘n’ Milk: the New Beer for Halloween This Year?

By Drew Atkins

Students of UCSB, I come before you today with intrepid ideas and profound propositions. Gone are the days of the kegger, I say to you - gone, cast into that dark place where such barbaric things of the past go to die.

October 31, 2003

Cops Shouldn’t Chat When They’re on the Clock

By Roland Reeds

With Halloween weekend parties upon us, I'm sure the police department has been putting in much time and effort beefing up their force, pulling out all the stops and definitely sparing no tax money for this year's crazy ...

October 31, 2003

Huff’s Anal Sex Column Soils the Holiest of Holies

By Chris French

In response to Christina Huff's article last Wednesday ("A Back Door to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!"Daily Nexus, Oct.29), I was disgusted reading your article. Not the topic - everyone is entitled to their own sexual...

October 31, 2003

DeFranceschi Brightens Up a Curvy Girl’s World

By Cassie McBride

I am writing you regarding the article "Curvy Cate Shouldn't Try to Be Skinny Minnie" by Sam DeFranceschi that ran on Oct. 29. I don't know how else to express how I felt after reading the article except to say that I wa...

October 31, 2003

Jack-o’-Hot Line

By Staff

The pumpkins reign tonight. I tell ya, those toothy fuckers will wait to bite you on the ass as you stumble drunkenly home from another famous Isla Vista Halloween - with the teeth you carved with your fat cousin Penny. ...

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

Human In Black

By Staff

The weathercomputer is on the fritz once again. The friendly technical support representative diagnosed my grumblings as resulting from a faulty motherboard.

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."