Opinion
"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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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 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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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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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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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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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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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
