Opinion

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

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.

May 19, 2003

Words to Eat By

By Alisha Dahlstrom

College freshmen living in the dorms enjoy the all-you-can-eat buffet offered by UCSB's local five-star restaurant, Ortega. With the buffet, however, come the dumpsters full of wasted food, thrown away, perhaps, in retal...

May 19, 2003

Think

By Staff

May 16, 2003

Living without Vowels: Abstaining From Jackson

By Steven Ruszczycky

AB 205, if passed and signed into action, would extend marriage-like status in California to all same-sex couples who register as domestic partners, establishing rights and responsibilities that would rival the civil uni...

May 16, 2003

The Deadline

By Staff

Today is the last day to change your grading option. Yeah, that's right. It's your last chance to face reality before they slap the cuffs on you.

May 16, 2003

Don’t Play Games With Students’ Meals

By Nick Pasto

There is a serious problem that has been plaguing UCSB freshmen for months and it's simply become too harmful to ignore. Yes, I'm talking about Ortega Dining Commons.

May 16, 2003

Be a Good Sport Concerning Basketball Fans

By Cooper Briscoe

As a fan of basketball, a protector of dignity and a former youth of Southern California, I feel it my duty to take a deeper look at the shortcomings and misconceptions thrown about in the article by Matt Faust, "Kings F...

May 16, 2003

Local Band Doesn’t Deserve Harsh Notes From Artsweek

By Matt McComb

Ms. Jardine and Mr. Mackie do a great injustice to Nerf Herder in their article when they say, "Nerf Herder made its dent in pop culture history by playing the theme from the 'Buffy' TV series. And then everybody stopped...

May 16, 2003

Hard Liquor Content Doesn’t Rate Equally with Wine or Beer

By Joel Furman

Maura O'Brien thinks she knows everything there is to know about alcohol, drugs, and partying, right? Wrong. In O'Brien's effort to clear up misconceptions, she unfortunately perpetuated a myth that I have found to be on...