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12-Year-Old Hot Line

November 21, 2003 by Staff

Those 12-year-old boys have got it pretty damn easy: chasing bullfrogs down at the creek, stealing apple pies from neighborhood windowsills and playing tickle-fight until the wee hours of the morning ...
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Good Intentions Gone Awry

November 20, 2003 by Carolyn Buford

After reading two editorials and the article about the Halloween post mortem, I felt it was a good time to talk to students directly. My name is Carolyn Buford, and I am the person responsible in larg...
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Food Ain’t Free

November 20, 2003 by Staff

Made a few trips to the dump today. It's expensive to use the dump. Paying someone else to take my stuff got me thinking about the weird ways money works. There is paying for stuff you already own...
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Gender Equality as Elusive as Feminism

November 20, 2003 by Loren Williams

There seems to be a lot of confusion in this country about feminism. Even experts on the subject seem to have a difficult time explaining it. Experts Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Perez Ferguson both adm...
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Poor Guy Can’t Even Stand

November 19, 2003 by Kate Rice

Beer goggles are my favorite party accessory because they compliment almost any outfit. Don't get me wrong, I am horny all the time, but there is a clear-cut difference between typical me and the peni...
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Full of Myself

November 19, 2003 by Staff

Correction: On Nov. 19, the weatherhuman did not want to write the weather. The weatherhuman, in fact, wanted to go home. And since the weatherhuman is anonymous, and therefore, cannot be fired...
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Hype Over Girl-on-Girl Action Excludes Guys | He Said….

November 19, 2003 by Travis Hunter

Girl-girl action. Yeah, I just started a column with a fragment. But I also just succeeded in getting the attention of almost every male eye crossing this page. Shameless, but effective.
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Hype Over Girl-on-Girl Action Excludes Guys | She Said…

November 19, 2003 by Stefanie Bautista

Close your eyes and imagine a typical DP party. Keg stand to your right, D.J. on your left, and straight ahead is a crowd of people standing around yelling, "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" You push through the cr...
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Eternal Sunshine Isn’t Something to Whine About

November 19, 2003 by Staff

My oceanography teacher stated an interesting opinion that most of you weather-spoiled Southern Californians could associate with. He said, "Santa Barbara must be the coldest warm place I have ever li...
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Administration’s Assumptions Are the Only Blatant Hostility

November 19, 2003 by Katrina Hale

Bradley Dean asked me a question. He inquired of "all Democrats and people opposed to the war in Iraq and pre-emptive warfare: What is the United States to do when threatened with blatant hostility?"
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No to Idiots with Opinions

November 18, 2003 by Staff

The weatherhuman has a long history of bitching about the graffiti that appears around campus. Here I go again.
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Aggressive Progressive: The Liberals Strike Back

November 18, 2003 by Nico Pitney

Last week, billionaire financier George Soros announced that he would donate up to $5 million to the progressive grassroots organization, MoveOn.org. Soros called the presidential elections in 2004 "a...
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No Bottled Bait Is Worth Being a Dead Monkey Over

November 18, 2003 by Neil Paul Baker

Monkeys are trapped using baited bottles attached to trees. Bottlenecks are wide enough for monkeys to slip arms in but narrow enough to prevent removing hands grasping peanut bait.
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Liberals Should Smoke the Dope Out of the White House

November 18, 2003 by Ethan Roberts

Several articles and opinion pieces have been published in the Daily Nexus recently. I found "Sexy, Sinister Neo-Conservatives" (Nov. 12) by Drew Atkins to be quite funny.
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Your Car Isn’t Your Castle

November 17, 2003 by Mark Signa

I was sitting in my car when an officer caught me drinking a beer. I got the Minor in Possession ticket, but the officer also searched my car even though I told him I wasn't giving him permission to. ...
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