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Living in the Land of the Sexiles

January 28, 2004 by Kate Rice

College is a time when you are forced to make sacrifices. As a freshman you sacrifice mom's home-cooked meals for dorm slop and your own room at home for a hole in the wall that you must share with a ...
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Get Off His Ass

January 28, 2004 by

The 3rd district election is getting ugly as the opposition is trying to sully John Buttny's name. And I don't mean by calling him Assny.
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Testing, 1, 2, 5

January 28, 2004 by

Carpinteria High School just became the first school in the county to test students for drugs. Each week a computer will pick five students from a list of the kids participating in sports or cheerlead...
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Dean May Be Nutty, but Kerry Lacks Principles

January 28, 2004 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 ...
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Don’t Waste Money on Weed, Make Money With It

January 28, 2004 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...
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Rape or Race Sensationalism Leaves the Victims Behind

January 28, 2004 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)...
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Bananas for Cash

January 27, 2004 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 ou...
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Regulation Aggravation

January 27, 2004 by

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 grabbe...
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Door-to-Door Peddlers Mean Risky Business for Students

January 27, 2004 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!
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Tap Cola

January 26, 2004 by

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...
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Blue Traffic Lights: Just a Little Nutty, Howie?

January 26, 2004 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 lar...
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Don’t Buy Into the Common Misconceptions About Rape

January 26, 2004 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 ar...
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Cleaning Up CalPIRG’s Name Mouhibian’s Column Soils the Reputation of Student Group

January 23, 2004 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" ("Camp...
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Full Moon Fleecing

January 23, 2004 by The Weatherhuman

I ran into the Wolf at the store yesterday. I was on my guard, as I always am when around him.
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Theft Of Nexus Copies Angers Even the Gaucho Free Press

January 23, 2004 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 comp...
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