Opinion

Columns

Sign of the Times

Virtual Reality

Argument in the Office

Wanna Write for Opinion?

All Opinion Posts

California and PIRG Help to Clean Up Clean Air Act

November 3, 2003 by Laura Baker

As I was reading "Lawsuit Against Clean Air Act Looks to Block New Changes" in the Oct. 28 issue of the Daily Nexus, I was surprised to discover a few interesting facts missing.
read more

No, Seriously – We Didn’t Mean to Be That Offensive

November 3, 2003 by Richard Jenkins Advisor OSL

The Halloween flyer was intended to increase student awareness about current Isla Vista laws and regulations. I apologize to anyone that it might have offended.
read more

UCSB Must Remedy the Intersection of Certain Doom

November 3, 2003 by Anthony Socpatz

I almost lost my life. I am not here to preach about the importance of driving safely. We should instead focus on the future and on preventing this from repeating.
read more

Relief for the Rash-Ridden

October 31, 2003 by Monique Sherman

Do you have questions about your health but don't have enough time to ask even your permanent couch roommate, a connoisseur of mysterious insect bites, about the effects of an itchy, unknown rash?
read more

Slippery Like a Pissed-On Pig

October 31, 2003 by Staff

Watch your step tonight. There's going to be horses with cop-jockeys stalking the streets of I.V. Personally, I'm not sure how we're going to handle the smell.
read more

Cookies ‘n’ Milk: the New Beer for Halloween This Year?

October 31, 2003 by Drew Atkins

Students of UCSB, I come before you today with intrepid ideas and profound propositions. Gone are the days of the kegger, I say to you - gone, cast into that dark place where such barbaric things of t...
read more

Cops Shouldn’t Chat When They’re on the Clock

October 31, 2003 by Roland Reeds

With Halloween weekend parties upon us, I'm sure the police department has been putting in much time and effort beefing up their force, pulling out all the stops and definitely sparing no tax money fo...
read more

Huff’s Anal Sex Column Soils the Holiest of Holies

October 31, 2003 by Chris French

In response to Christina Huff's article last Wednesday ("A Back Door to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!"Daily Nexus, Oct.29), I was disgusted reading your article. Not the topic - everyone is entitled...
read more

DeFranceschi Brightens Up a Curvy Girl’s World

October 31, 2003 by Cassie McBride

I am writing you regarding the article "Curvy Cate Shouldn't Try to Be Skinny Minnie" by Sam DeFranceschi that ran on Oct. 29. I don't know how else to express how I felt after reading the article exc...
read more

Jack-o’-Hot Line

October 31, 2003 by Staff

The pumpkins reign tonight. I tell ya, those toothy fuckers will wait to bite you on the ass as you stumble drunkenly home from another famous Isla Vista Halloween - with the teeth you carved with you...
read more

How the Grinch Stole Halloween

October 30, 2003 by Staff

"Halloween in Isla Vista: The Party Is Over." This is the subject line of the anti-fun e-mail that Richard Jenkins at the Office of Student Life sent out to students at UCSB, schools across California...
read more

Human In Black

October 30, 2003 by Staff

The weathercomputer is on the fritz once again. The friendly technical support representative diagnosed my grumblings as resulting from a faulty motherboard.
read more

Will Your Politics Be on the Final, Professors?

October 30, 2003 by Drew Mackie

Students don't pay for lectures about why the president is an asshole when they should be teaching them how to make a macaroni sculpture or interpret Dostoyevsky. Neither should they expect to learn a...
read more

Halloween Could Be Fun if I.V. Were a Democracy

October 30, 2003 by Jay Freeman

On Monday I realized a much more important side of the issue: Our ability to party this Halloween is directly proportional to the amount of democratic might we wield over our own destinies. Isla Vista...
read more

Dating Game Puts All of the Cards in Men’s Hands

October 30, 2003 by Katherine Drabiak

Straight flush. As the cards are dealt, the expressionless poker face overtakes the features, suppressing emotion and sense of honesty. My poker history of interests reads like a failed tournament: to...
read more