Opinion

May 22, 2003

Road Map to Peace May Contain a Couple Wrinkles

By Mar Logrono

I am neither optimistic nor confident of Sharon's commitment to peace. Sharon has recently rejected negotiations on the status of the settlements built after 2001, one of the elements subject to negotiations within phase...

May 22, 2003

Money Grows on Neither Trees Nor Out-of-State Students

By Jeanne Tanner

Regarding Bert Viloria's brilliant suggestion of screwing over the out-of-state students ("Don't Take Budget Woes Out on In-State Students," Daily Nexus, May 23, 2003), I would like to point out that although we comprise...

May 22, 2003

Terrorism Inhibits Any Chance for a Resolution in the Middle East

By Eli Raber

For the first time in over two years, the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon sat down with the new Palestinian leader Abu Mazen to engage in peace talks. Within 48 hours of the talks, Israel was rocked by five suicide bombings.

May 22, 2003

Don’t Play Games With Booze Before You Get Behind the Wheel

By Janelle Hernandez

It's 1:45 a.m., the bars are closed, and you just got a number from a hottie you've had your eye on since Fall Quarter. What a good night! Once you find your friends, you make your way to the parking lot. You are a littl...

May 21, 2003

Fouling Out of Our Beds

By Beth Van Dyke

As a diehard Sacramento Kings fan, I'm tired of saying it's going to be this year, this is our year, and we're going all the way. No matter what, it always seems like we come up short.

May 21, 2003

Academic Thought

By The Weatherhuman

People talk about professors being liberal. A few even talk about professors being conservative. But it's much simpler than all that. Most people can tell you what your professors think: They think:

May 21, 2003

Living Without Vowels: Bring Your Wallet but Leave Your Clothes

By Steven Ruszczycky

Everyone's at least thought about it. The gentle kiss of the summer sun on bare flesh, the grainy tickle of sand in secret places, the delightful caress of an afternoon breeze across your buttocks. Chances are, if you ha...

May 19, 2003

Flat Notes for Extravaganza

By Gregory Nielsen

Staff writers Jessica Jardine and Drew Mackie accuse the members of A.S. Program Board of purposely creating an Extravaganza with a lineup that students won't like while patting themselves on the back for being the suppo...

May 19, 2003

Skittles and LSD

By Staff

I spent the weekend listening to old sixties albums. After careful consideration, I don't think that you need acid to write drug induced music.

May 19, 2003

Advertise Online!

By Staff

I love Google. More specifically, I love their corporate advertising scheme. A friend of mine mentioned the other day that several character actors at Disney World had sued the company because their costumes required th...

May 19, 2003

CRECNO-Blind

By Staff

Ward Connerly has a notion to make California the first truly colorblind society. His Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color or National Origin (CRECNO) initiative, expected to go to California voters on the March 200...

May 19, 2003

Safe Grad Offers Students Information on Booze and Safety

By Lacy Potier

I am writing you to express my excitement about the event coming up called Safe Grad. I am an intern on campus for Student Health called S.T.A.R., which stands for Students Teaching Alcohol and other drug Responsibility....

May 19, 2003

He Said: Nude Dancers—Demeaning or Delightful?

By Steven Ruszczycky

These two types, along with foreign businessmen, are the bread and butter of the stripper industry. Geek type 1 usually goes with a mass of other geeks, tittering like adolescent boys at the thought of naked women, despi...

May 19, 2003

She Said: Nude Dancers—Demeaning or Delightful?

By Stephanie Tavares

I'm not quite sure what it is about stripping that makes people become the morality police. Is it nudity that they find immoral? Is it the display of sexuality that they have a problem with? These both seem like perfectl...

May 19, 2003

Letter Blows the Meal Plan Problem Out of Proportion

By Lisa Cooper

Is Nick Pasto serious in his column (Daily Nexus, "Don't Play Games With Students' Meals," May 16)? I agree that the food in both dining commons could be better, but to call it harmful and offensive? That's going a bit t...

May 19, 2003

Ward Connerly May Be Extreme, But He’s Got the Right Idea

By Bert Viloria

I have benefited greatly from previous generations of equal opportunity programs (Educational Opportunity Program in my case), which I have knowingly and approvingly participated in.