Opinion

October 24, 2003

Mackie Misses Point of Hollister’s Local Legacy

By David Beckham

In regards to "Hollister Co. Shirts Endorse Earthquakes, Mediocrity" (Oct. 15, 2003), Drew Mackie should realize that the Hollister Co. sucks, but I hope someone has told him that the company and its surf image is based ...

October 24, 2003

Monkey Hot Line

By Staff

Monkeys are truly marvels of nature - so like us, yet able to masturbate in public and fling feces. Perhaps, rather than looking at monkeys as humanity's evolutionary predecessors, we should look at monkeys as role model...

October 23, 2003

Mother Nature Loves Bush

By Lucy Hellier

Having been in California for just over a month now, I have come to reassess this narrow-minded condemnation; in fact I'd go as far as to say that I think Bush is a really great guy. Please allow me to explain.

October 23, 2003

Evel Lives

By Staff

Evel Knievel made it to 65 years old this week. I think that sends some great messages to the youth. Break any bone in your body and it will heal. A life of big-time gambling means certain pain and equally certain glory.

October 23, 2003

The Artful Dodger: ‘The Real World’ Is Lame but Rejection Still Sucks

By Drew Mackie

I just volunteered to have my privacy obliterated and my very persona flattened into a two-dimensional TV character. I auditioned for "The Real World."

October 23, 2003

Marriage Protection Week Is a Time to Fight Love

By Loren Williams

I hope that everyone had an excellent Marriage Protection Week. Devoting an entire week to celebrating love and encouraging it to blossom is a wonderful idea.

October 23, 2003

Free Food Doesn’t Always Come in Candy on Halloween

By Kristan Ditlevsen Representative at Large

Looking forward to Halloween? The Associated Students Commission on Public Safety (ASCPS) wants you to maximize your pleasure and minimize your pain this year by coming out to the "Halloween Public Safety Town Hall Meeti...

October 23, 2003

‘Assylum’ Isn’t an Accurate Representation of Psychology

By Amanda Maffett

On Oct. 21, 2003, you ran a comic strip titled, "The Assylum." This comic strip offended me because I have spent a week in a psychiatric hospital. I ended up in the hospital because last year, I tried to kill myself and ...

October 22, 2003

Hot Hot ‘Human

By Staff

Hot day yesterday, huh? I have trouble getting motivated when it's that hot. I just want to lay outside naked and get drunk and sweaty with someone special.

October 22, 2003

Hot and Ready for Action

By Christina Huff

Nothing feels better than waking up and knowing you have a hot date lined up for the evening. It's not just any date, it's the date with that special someone you've been seeing for a few weeks.

October 22, 2003

Have Your Cake, Eat It and Save a Slice

By Randall Shulman

They say you can't have your cake and eat it too. But that's not necessarily the truth. All too often it seems we measure out cakes and our lives by an "all or nothing" standard.

October 21, 2003

And the Truth Shall Set You in Pee

By The Weatherhuman

How about the open letter from the Chancellor about National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week? Long, boring and full of statements like "Alcohol abuse directly undercuts the return on your parents' educational investmen...

October 21, 2003

Sexual Assault Is Not Sex

By Max Anders

People in this society who are committed to reducing sexual assault fall under a common misconception that must be clarified. We are dedicated to the end of rape and sexual assault, not sex! In fact, many of us happen to...

October 21, 2003

Weekend Campaign Hopes for Three Days Free of Rape

By Henry T. Yang Yonnie Harris Michael D. Young

Between Oct. 23 and Oct. 26, UCSB's Rape Prevention Education Program will initiate a new campaign entitled, "I Want a Truce." This campaign seeks as its goal three days without sexual assault in our community.

October 20, 2003

Why is Money Green?

By Staff

What is with the commercials for the new twenty-dollar bill? Why do they need to advertise money? If I can use this new bill to purchase things, I assure you I will use it.

October 20, 2003

Searching for Even Steven

By Katrina Hale

Something has been bothering me more and more. I have followed the debate in the Nexus opinion page with continuing dissatisfaction. This feeling of unease climaxed Wednesday night when I attended a talk in I.V. Theater ...