Opinion

May 15, 2003

Students’ Money Matters

By Laura Vlk

There is an office available in the I.V. Tenants Union headquarters in I.V. The LRC committee has clearly communicated to Don our opposition to renting out the space for several reasons.

May 15, 2003

Opening Night

By Staff

The way I understand it, The Matrix is a movie about a world where everyone's thoughts and actions are controlled by a giant illusion-generating machine. They can't escape because for them, fiction is more powerful than ...

May 15, 2003

Advertisements Peddle Fear and Doubt

By Nico Pitney

David Reeves referenced the Nexus ads depicting Israeli students and their encounters with terrorism and asked, "What are they trying to sell?" I would like to propose an answer.

May 14, 2003

Race to the Bathroom

By Beth Van Dyke

Sex is great. However there is this odd post-coital period that continually traumatizes me. It can be traumatizing in two ways: with a condom and without one.

May 14, 2003

Ans and Ists

By The Weatherhuman

There's been a lot of hubbub in the news lately about Patriot Act II. Personally, I think the Patriot Acts are just old McCarthy Era legislation that's been dusted off and touched up.

May 14, 2003

U.S. Should Not Embrace Nuclear Arms

By Joey Tartakovsky

If you lived in a world whose opinion of your behavior ranged from concerned to downright paranoid, the last thing you'd want to do would be to make more dangerous new weapons - especially if they're nuclear ones.

May 13, 2003

Cut and Paste

By Staff

How many times have you been sitting in the UCen, bored to death, staring over a book that you should be studying, but can’t bring yourself to look at? If I may, I would like to suggest a new UCen pastime

May 13, 2003

Sound Arguments for Earth

By Loren Williams

This is in response to Justin Ruhge's column (Daily Nexus, "University Idealism Is Anything But Right," May 8). Far from being a secret communist movement, environmentalism is the principle that all actions that we under...

May 13, 2003

A.S. Director Doesn’t Deserve Vicious Attacks

By Jim Keenley

Kalinksi and the Daily Nexus also seem to have a variety of misconceptions regarding this year's general election. I can assure Mr. Kalinski and the Daily Nexus that the sliding scale constitutional amendment on the ball...

May 13, 2003

Don’t Just Imagine a World Free of Rape

By Carl Barnes

Do you know four women? Then you probably know someone who has, or will be, raped. We would rather believe that the average rapist is a sociopath who cannot control his sexual drives.

May 13, 2003

Students Shouldn’t Buy the Myths Surrounding Alcohol Use

By Staff

So you think you know everything there is to know about alcohol, drugs and partying, right? Wrong. There are a lot of misconceptions about drinking floating around these days that could potentially get you into a lot of ...

May 13, 2003

The Right’s Take on Environmental Issues Just Doesn’t Seem Natural

By Scott Steele

Justin M. Ruhge's latest rant (Daily Nexus, "University Idealism Is Anything But Right," May 8, 2003) compelled me to respond with some thoughts I have been having recently about nature.

May 12, 2003

Post-Mother’s Day Blues

By Staff

I sincerely hope that you all had a pleasant Mother's Day. I know you all went home or called or sent nice cards.

May 12, 2003

Peace on the Horizon?

By Henry Sarria

The "Roadmap to Peace" has been presented to the Israelis and the Palestinians. This noble plan for something so elusive hinges on many factors, but there is one factor most prevalent in the big picture that will make or...

May 12, 2003

Sex Research Strips Opinion From Fact

By Kristen Payne

In response to a column by Trey Myklebust (Daily Nexus, May 1). Apparently, Myklebust is less than supportive of a research project that was conducted by a team of professors at UCSB. This project included a study of men...

May 9, 2003

Living Without Vowels: I Just Want to Rock

By Steven Ruszczycky

The man is bullwhip lean - roughly 115 pounds, 20 if he's lucky, of middle-aged derision culminating in a lousy haircut and pocket protector lodged in his shirt's breast pocket.