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Surrender Your Parking Spot!

February 2, 2004 by

You, your boozer friends and your shitty car just aren't welcome, apparently. As part of a plan to reduce the fun out-of-town revelers have in Isla Vista, Academic Senate Chair Walter Yuen proposed to...
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Slope-browed Interlude

February 2, 2004 by

Dear readers, the Weatherhuman was not to be found on Superbowl Sunday, most likely because the human was not answering the phone at the Fortress of Inebriation.
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Blue Traffic Lights: Tallying the Victories of the Iraqi War

February 2, 2004 by Joey Tartakovsky

One of the things that made Saddam stand out as a dictator among dictators was that he liked to partake in his tortures, not just command them from above. In one video recording, he sits and watches a...
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Houston… Hellhole! Hut! Hike!

January 30, 2004 by

The only forecasting that matters now is the Super Bowl kind.
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Only Use Pot Responsibly

January 30, 2004 by Justin Andrews

In the article "Don't Waste Money on Weed, Make Money With It," (Daily Nexus, Jan. 28) Joel Furman discusses the anti-drug commercials that pollute our airways and waste our desperately needed tax mon...
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Not Even Bananas Are Exempt From Laws

January 30, 2004 by Henry Sarria

Sometimes you have to wonder about the outgoing product of our wonderful UC system. I mean, there's a billion and one things in this world to legitimately complain about. But a banana? No, I'm not sid...
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Democrats Forget the Number One Issue In Politics: Evil

January 30, 2004 by Drew Atkins

Believing myself to be an ace political commentator, the following advice could very well make or break Democratic presidential campaigns. If you or someone you know is acquainted with any of the cand...
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Drugstore Cowboy: Getting Amphetamines Is as Easy as A-D-D

January 30, 2004 by Cory Anthony

I'm not sure when it was that I first saw the commercial for Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. That probably means that I do lack attention to detail, due to distractibility - very frequently.
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Self-Medicating Hot Line

January 30, 2004 by Cory Anthony

College kinda hurts. We at the Hot Line know this pain. We share it. And like many of you, we often take it upon ourselves to numb the pain and drive off the horrors of this cut-throat university lif...
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Squeezing Every Last Drop

January 29, 2004 by Thomas Scheff

Students occasionally ask me how to best take advantage of their four years. Information is cheap, but growth and understanding is hard to come by. Most undergraduates follow the path of least resista...
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Reverse Racism Can’t Help Race Relations

January 29, 2004 by Brian Ford

As America moves toward a brighter future, discrimination continues to plague the way society interacts. A recent article posted in the Nexus titled "Rape or Race Coverage?" (Jan. 22) exemplifies this...
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Misogynist Art Has No Place in Nexus

January 29, 2004 by Lauren Christie

What the hell is wrong with Chris Calzetta. Is he really as much of an asshole as he makes himself out to be in his illustrations?
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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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