Opinion

October 15, 2003

What’s Your Problem: October 15, 2003

By Staff

"Food at Ortega [Dining Commons]. It's just nasty. The simple solution would be to make better food."

October 14, 2003

Stay of Execution

By The Weatherhuman

I sat down well prepared to fail a midterm yesterday. I had a solid 40 minutes total study time for the quarter under my belt and the effects of a two-hour nap lingered in my clouded mind.

October 14, 2003

Cleaning Slung Mud

By Henry Sarria

A week before California's historic gubernatorial recall election, the groping allegations against candidate Schwarzenegger began to surface. In the world of dirty politics this was no surprise.

October 14, 2003

Middle East Article Gets It All Wrong

By Jason Kanel

David Ronquillo claimed to have written an article "more consistent with the facts" ("Terror Has Its Own Rules," Daily Nexus, Oct. 9) than Joey Tartakovsky's.

October 14, 2003

Cop Horses Poop All Over Residents’ Rights

By Jason Leraul

I'm not gonna take this shit anymore! If you live in I.V. like me, you should realize that we live in a very unique place. We pay astronomical rents to live in shabby structures, have our cars regularly vandalized and ge...

October 14, 2003

CalPIRG Offers a Better Book Exchange

By Laura Baker

In the Oct. 8 article "Website Aims to Decrease Prices for Used Textbooks," you mentioned three major avenues where students could potentially buy new and used textbooks: the UCSB Bookstore, the I.V. Bookstore and ScrewT...

October 13, 2003

Alice B. Toklas Makes Water Now?

By Staff

Have you seen NICOWater, the bottled water for smokers that has a little nicotine thrown in? Man, smokers get so many cool products. Luckily the weatherhuman's favorite things already come in drinkable form.

October 13, 2003

Dubya’s Dwindling Digits

By Nico Pitney

Those with dreams - or nightmares - of George Bush gliding through the 2004 elections into a second term have been snapped into reality by a cascade of recent polls.

October 13, 2003

Who Gets To Write Arnold’s Lines Now?

By Jono Szalay

Anyone who witnessed Arnold in his campaign for governor knows he has little to offer the public, other than questionable catch phrases in a silly accent.

October 10, 2003

Take the Coke Challenge

By Staff

Has the weatherhuman ever weighed in on the Coke v. Pepsi debate? I don't think so. That would be a little corporate and a little preachy at the same time.

October 10, 2003

Porn and Vaginal Gushing Don’t Jive with Journalism

By Katherine Drabiak

The college student newspaper publication is an ideal forum to eradicate ignorance, maintain objectivity and promote respectful discussion of relevant issues. Unfortunately, several portions of the Daily Nexus, especiall...

October 9, 2003

Time for a Change

By Staff

Can you believe this shitty weather? I can barely make it through my morning Jack and Coke without getting the shivers. Yes, the shivers, not the shakes.

October 9, 2003

Terror Has Its Own Rules

By David Ronquillo senior math and physics major

The Yom Kippur War of '73 was not unique to the Jewish religion; also known as the Ramadan War by the Arabs - after their holy month of Ramadan - this war indeed had a purpose beyond senselessly aggravating Israel.

October 9, 2003

What the People Want

By Todd Roberson

How can the will of the people be undemocratic? The people of California have spoken. But since liberals knew what the results would be, apparently this election was unfair and undemocratic.

October 9, 2003

Join QSU in National Coming Out Day and Wear Jeans

By Pedro Cruz

National Coming Out Day is the day when the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and allied - or just queer - community celebrates its identity by sharing that identity with friends and family.

October 9, 2003

All-Out Attacks on Arabs in the Nexus Must Be Put to an End

By Huda Bayaa

I'm a freshman here at UCSB, and I find it quite biased to continually include pro-Israeli, Arab-bashing articles in your newspaper. Whether they are included in the opinion section or not, it's insulting that you are ba...