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Nudity for Finals Week Fun

December 4, 2003 by Kate Rice

Dead Week and the finals crunch are always a joy - if you like pain. Caffeine overload headaches and delirium are surely right around the corner for many students due to all-nighters, final papers and...
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Coffee and Hubard’s Slam Against Grocery Strike Misses Point

December 4, 2003 by Frank Ferrante

In "A Strike Against All Sense," (Daily Nexus, Nov. 26) Ben Coffee and Brad Hubbard reflect the logic, sophistication and sensitivity of Scientologists on a caffeine binge. I resent their statement, "...
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Fill Your Holidays With Nachas

December 4, 2003 by Richard D. Hecht

I grew up in a kosher home in Southern California. My grandmother was an immigrant from Odessa who had come to New York in 1914 to what Jews of her generation called the Goldeneh Medineh, "The Golden ...
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Coal & Candy Canes

December 4, 2003 by The Daily Nexus Staff

The Daily Nexus Gives Fossil Fuel to the Foul and Sweets to the Superb. Tension-relieving candy canes for take-home finals and the saintly professors who assign them. Inevitable, end-of-the quarter lu...
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What’s Your Problem? 12-04-03

December 4, 2003 by

"My right leg is three inches shorter than my left." - Nate Brener (junior geology major)
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A Strike Against All Sense

November 26, 2003 by Ben Coffee

In his article, the senior economics major seems to not understand basic economics, much less the larger forces at work. We chose not to honor the greedy picket lines at Albertsons, Vons and Ralphs, f...
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The Wednsday Hump: Ex Sex Is the Emotional Baggage Claim

November 26, 2003 by Kate Rice

Picture yourself having a good time on a date with someone you are interested in. The person's phone rings and as you watch recognition of the number roll over their face like the haze of a fog-filled...
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Answers for the Morning After

November 25, 2003 by John Fry Monique Sherman

Inquiring minds wanted to know, so the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) is here to answer some of those burning college questions. From doubts about your roommate's odor to sexually transmitte...
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Thanks for Leaving

November 25, 2003 by The Weatherhuman

Oh, boy, just one more day until break. I can't wait to stuff my belly and pass out in front of the TV with Dad and Gramps.
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The Cave Diet Really Works

November 25, 2003 by

The weatherhuman believes that the mass slaughter of turkeys this time of year is a cruel, archaic tradition. I vastly prefer prime rib.
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University Balking on Green Buildings

November 25, 2003 by Edward France

UCSB had established itself as a leader in green design. Our leadership, however, is starting to ring hollow. We gained national attention by achieving Platinum LEED building certification. However, t...
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The Artful Dodger: Sins of the Inept Reporter

November 24, 2003 by Drew Mackie

I write a lot. I write for school, I write for my job, and I think my post-college plans will somehow involve newspaper journalism, a special form of writing through which one attempts to disseminate ...
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Can We Make It?

November 24, 2003 by Staff

We're crawling toward Thanksgiving break, and for many of us it will mean the first time we've been home since the year began. Which makes this a scary few days.
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Blue Traffic Lights: Neoconservatism History 101

November 24, 2003 by Drew Atkins

The term "neoconservative" has wrongly become a synonym for ultraconservative or zealously right-wing. A distinction should be made between those known as "paleoconservatives" - old-style conservative...
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Even in the Sixth Week, Strikers Deserve Respect

November 24, 2003 by Chris Holmes

There are no two words that bring a skip to my step like Bonus Buy. I'm talking about that wonderful little yellow tag you see at Albertsons when Ben & Jerry's is two for $5.
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