Opinion
I spent Winter Break in a television trance. But whenever I broke away from VH1's marathon sessions of C-grade celebrities telling me what to remember from the '70s and '80s, I checked out the newspap...
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Feeling better today. Feeling like it's good to be home (when you've been here as long as the 'human has, this is home).
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My computer was stolen. My snazzy Gateway portal to the world was taken from my bedroom during a little shindig - on my birthday, no less - that my roommates and I had.
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With Winter Break over and all of you back in town, the peace that comes with the end of finals is officially over. I must admit, I missed all of you and some of your alcohol-fueled antics.
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It would make a great game show. Your school's teaching assistants plan to strike, but you have to guess why. "Is it Eskimo Pies? Are you planning to strike because you want more Eskimo Pies?" Only t...
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Did you hear about the lady who got trampled at Wal-mart by maniacs in pursuit of DVD players on sale for $30?
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"Sir, you've been selected by the airline," the man at the security gate of the Santa Barbara Airport says to me, quickly scratching an "X" in red marker on my ticket. Did I win something? Maybe I'm g...
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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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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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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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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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"My right leg is three inches shorter than my left." - Nate Brener (junior geology major)
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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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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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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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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
