Opinion

March 7, 2003

Hypocritical Column Shows Ignorance Goes Both Ways

By Jake Norton

This column is in response to a column by Josef Liles and Zahira Navarrette. I am a white male student, and their column deeply offended me and many people I know.

March 6, 2003

A Tax Cut Below the Belt

By Drew Atkins

I'm sick of hearing about Iraq. Every time I open up a newspaper or turn on the news, all I hear about are weapons inspectors, military bases, the new color-coded terrorist threats.

March 6, 2003

It’s Not Working

By system

I have divided the remainder of my quarter into "real work" and "fake work."In a way, I'm just being honest with myself. I never study for my last final and I invariably scribble out my last paper. There is no sense of f...

March 6, 2003

The Name of the Game Isn’t Exploitation

By Josef Liles Zahira Navarrette

While class was hopping on last week, a few of us noticed a plethora of sombreros floating around campus on the heads and backs of several vanilla people. According to data from the 2001-02 school year, Chicanos and Lati...

March 5, 2003

Wow, I Sure Am Bare-Assed

By Beth Van Dyke

My roommate decided to go celebrate Mardi Gras this last weekend in New Orleans. Admittedly, my only real experience with the celebration is limited to "Girls Gone Wild" videos taped on Bourbon Street.

March 5, 2003

Can’t Buy Me Love

By system

It's a good day for dildos, furry handcuffs and American values. On Tuesday, Victoria's Secret - merchants of bras and panties modeled by pointy-chinned, giraffe-necked women with IQs roughly equal to their cup sizes - s...

March 5, 2003

Backpack Ban Just More of That U.S. Strategery

By Tony Samara

Campus Police recently released a statement, distributed to all campus organizations by the Office of Student Life, requesting that organizations ban backpacks from events and post visible security in response to the rec...

March 5, 2003

There’s No Reason Why Only Christians Should Suffer for Lent

By Drew Mackie

The use of Yiddish to describe a solemn Christian tradition might seem out-of-place. However, as Christian-specific a holiday as today might be, its theme of sacrifice spans faiths.

March 5, 2003

UCSB Students Should Take Part in Isla Vista Master Plan Meetings

By Jon Eggart

As some of you may know, there's something going on in Isla Vista called the Master Plan. For over a year, a committee has been meeting to decide the future look of I.V.

March 4, 2003

Make-up Work

By system

Don't ditch class. Kerr Hall is a scary place. At 10 o'clock at night the building is dark and creepy. It looks something like an old castle in the moonlight. All the windows are dark.

March 4, 2003

Drugstore Cowboy: The War on Finals Week

By Cory Anthony

I don't plan to still be a passenger when this ship goes down, but I do plan on having a bachelor's degree in English. Which requires, in my case, finishing three more quarters of Chinese after this one.

March 4, 2003

On March 5, Walk out of Class and Into an Anti-War Protest

By Nico Pitney

The newly formed Student Coalition for Peace calls on UCSB students to join hundreds of other college campuses and participate in the national one-day student strike on March 5, 2003. We believe that the great majority o...

March 4, 2003

Impounding Bikes Is a Band-Aid Solution to Parking Problem

By Conor Coughlan Chris French Pascal Palancade Ramiro Saldain

This letter is in regard to the bike rack problem outside the Carrillo Dining Commons. Because of the poor design of the Carrillo Dining Commons and the limited amount of space available for bike parking, students are fo...

February 28, 2003

Dungeons & Soldiers

By Steven Ruszczycky

Representative Charles B. Rangel, the Democrat from New York, is also staunchly anti-war, but he figures that the folks calling the shots would be less inclined to pick a fight with Saddam if their wealthy children were ...

February 28, 2003

This is Just the Day

By system

In memory of the late, sweatered Fred Rodgers of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," and out of sympathy for the nation's embittered obituary headline writers:

February 28, 2003

Plants and Poop

By system

Leafy green tulips to the county for leaving the ficus on Pardall alone. Tulips as well to the tree people who shacked up with mother nature in protest.