Opinion

May 6, 2003

In Wake of Elections, the S.U.N. Party Also Rises

By Edward Yan

Okay, so S.A.C. and Gauchoholics claim they have overcome their long history of partisan bickering and worked together to get out the vote, however they neglected to stop directing their attacks on the S.U.N. party.

May 6, 2003

Columnist Is Incorrect in Criticisms of A.S.

By Anthony Flores

After reading Cory Anthony's column (Daily Nexus, "No Change Comes Easily," May 1, 2003), I was struck by a number of falsehoods that I feel should be addressed. Being the only elected officer of Associated Students ment...

May 6, 2003

The United States Has a Friend in the Middle East

By Celia Soudry

Terror is terror regardless of its target, and terrorist cells existing throughout the world stand for one universal purpose: the murder and destruction of Christians, Jews, Hindus and those who espouse freedom and democ...

May 5, 2003

Keep Moving and You Won’t Get Hit

By system

It's about this time of the year that everyone looks forward to moving. You've discovered all of the leaks, splinters and hanging live wires that your apartment has to offer and you can still fantasize that the next plac...

May 5, 2003

The Daves-Rougeaux Show

By Jonathan Kalinski

Since taking over this year as executive director, Don Daves-Rougeaux has brought stability to an organization that desperately needed it. However, with that stability has come a perceived control over the organization.

May 5, 2003

Isla Vista Foot Patrol Deserves Residents’ Praise, Not Derision

By Dorothy Dent

I would like to strongly echo Henry Sarria's article (Daily Nexus, "Defending the Foot Patrol," April 30). We are very lucky to have this excellent style of community policing in our small, dense, student-based town.

May 2, 2003

Goods and Services

By system

The weathercavemates and I are in the habit of playing horrible practical jokes on one another. One of the more original ones involves stealing an unsuspecting 'mate's checkbook and writing naughty things on the memo lin...

May 2, 2003

Living Without Vowels: Swallow You Whole

By Steven Ruszczycky

In the wee morning hours of Thursday, April 24, two UC Police Dept. officers happened across 13.17 feet and 85 pounds of Burmese python coiled up, cold and near death in a parking lot on the Devereux Loop.

May 2, 2003

Education Comes Second to Celebration for Pride Week

By John Zayac

I was flipping through the Daily Nexus on Monday morning, anxious to see what this week, the once-a-year week set aside for queers to be openly embraced by our campus community, had to offer.

May 2, 2003

Defense I.V. Amounts to Nothing but Wasted Breath

By Juan Verde

While I admire Henry Sarria's opinion "Defending the Foot Patrol" (Daily Nexus, April 28,2003), it will go on deaf ears for many reasons. To start with, his intended audience, the Grand Jury, doesn't have to listen or ca...

May 1, 2003

Drugstore Cowboy: No Change Comes Easily

By Cory Anthony

Myself, I really don't care about the color of the person who represents me. Or the gender. Or the shoe size. All I want is someone who may be able to get something done.

May 1, 2003

Weapons of Mass Destruction

By system

Nexus people bet on weird things, like election outcomes or the number of mosquitos we can kill on a given day in our pest-infested office. Today's lead story is the Los Alamos contract. So naturally, there's an office p...

May 1, 2003

Some Professors Get All the Luck With Research Projects

By Trey Myklebust

After spending some time reading, I found it necessary to point out a recent encounter of mine with a certain publication that is frequented by many of our UCSB students.

May 1, 2003

Think

By system

April 30, 2003

Lots of Problems

By system

I have a problem class. Every time my professor gets frustrated, he relieves his misery by assigning extra homework. Every time he grades our homework, he gets frustrated.

April 30, 2003

Defending the Foot Patrol

By Henry Sarria

Grand juries are a funny thing. On the one hand, you have a group of people gathered together to make a ruling to better some aspect of society based on the findings in their published report.