Opinion

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.

May 9, 2003

Eeny-meany, Mediany, Mode

By Staff

Weatherfriend 1: "They're opening a new statistics department."Weatherfriend 2: "We don't have one?"Weatherfriend 1: "Yes, but we're starting another one."

May 9, 2003

Daily Nexus Overshoots the UC Tuition Fee Hikes

By Jerry Kissler

While providing important information about how budget cuts may impact UC, your story, "UC Regents To Vote on Tuition" (Daily Nexus, May 7, 2003) significantly overstated the fee increase the regents will consider at the...

May 8, 2003

Drugstore Cowboy: Florists Love Your Mom

By Cory Anthony

Heads up, kids: It's Mother's Day on Sunday. I was just recently made aware of this myself. Immediately recognizing the appropriate thing to do under these circumstances, I panicked.

May 8, 2003

Ah, Parking Services, Where Art Thy Sting?

By Staff

I was late for an exam yesterday and decided to drive to campus. Being short on time and spare change for a parking pass, I decided to take advantage of one of Parking Services' deluxe $30 spaces.

May 8, 2003

University Idealism Is Anything But Right

By Justin M. Ruhge

You students pay a fortune of your and your parents' money to attend UCSB to get an education. But what you are getting is a thorough brainwashing by the left-wing bunch of professors who infest the campus today, and not...

May 8, 2003

Community Affairs Board Works for You and Your Community

By James K. To Assoc. Director C.A.B.

Over 3,000 students have benefited through volunteer service each year, with some of our students continuing their service by joining the Peace Corps, Teach for America and AmeriCorps - a few of the many opportunities th...

May 8, 2003

Police Protect Us From Irresponsible Drugs

By Janine Boomer

The two things I love most are alcohol and the police. So, it is the first sentence of my article and I have already exaggerated. It is not actually alcohol I love best, but rather talking about alcohol.

May 8, 2003

Article Only Paints One Part of Israeli-Palestinian Picture

By Hoang Lam

"The United States Has a Friend in the Middle East" (Daily Nexus, May 6, 2003), by Celia Soudry, paints an incomplete picture of a very complex situation. Israel is not the benevolent champion protecting the free world f...

May 8, 2003

Think

By Staff

May 7, 2003

It’s Just No Gouda

By Staff

Don't eat the cheese. Specifically, don't eat the Tillamook-brand extra-sharp cheddar currently on sale at Vons.

May 7, 2003

My Dinner With a Dweeb

By Beth Van Dyke

Every girl has a lackey at least once in her life. When you first met him, you get the same epiphany that the guy who invented caller I.D. did. But then the bastard went ahead and blocked his number to private. Thus, it ...

May 7, 2003

Money for Anti-terrorism Ads Comes From Hollywood Players

By David Reeves

Frequent readers of the Daily Nexus have certainly noticed the full-color ads that have been running in which Israeli students recount their experiences with terrorism.

May 7, 2003

Misinformation Doesn’t Help Skateboarding’s Bad Reputation

By Daniel Ernst

The picture and caption on the front page of the Daily Nexus titled "The Daily Grind" on Friday, May 2, worries me for several reasons.

May 6, 2003

Up All Night

By system

I pulled my first all-nighter of the quarter last night. When I tried to take notes in class today, I would look down at the page occasionally and find that I had scribbled down only the first and last letters of each wo...

May 6, 2003

The Road Map to Peace

By Joey Tartakovsky

This is an important time for those who wish for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and perhaps a time for optimism, too. As the current conflict reaches its 31st month, a number of portentous forces have converged...