Opinion

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.

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

Feverish

By system

I hate being sick. It started with a sniffle. Then my nose wouldn't stop running. Then it stopped up and I started coughing instead. Now my day is divided into three parts: sickness, overmedication, and sleep. On the bri...

February 28, 2003

Student Protesters Help Keep Things in Perspective

By Joseph Martinez

In response to Cory Anthony's editorial, I first want to say that I agree that protesting is not "an end in and of itself." Making noise and marching down the street should be a last resort to get divergent voices heard.

February 28, 2003

A Conservative Defense

By Ed Chen

In response to Rebekah Waldron's mischaracterization of College Republicans (Daily Nexus, "Dishonesty Is Not the Best Policy, College Republicans," Feb. 25, 2003) I, the organizer of the Shannon Reeves event, would like ...

February 28, 2003

Pro-Life Ad Is an Insult to a Woman’s Right to Choose

By Katrina Hale

One of the most common feelings of rape victims is intense helplessness and lack of control over their own bodies. And then we, as a society, have the audacity to tell these women that we will decide what they can do wit...

February 28, 2003

War With Iraq Will Only Bring More Woes

By George Gregg

In Matthew Lamont Stern's opinion piece "What Is It Good For?" (Daily Nexus, Feb. 26, 2003), his arguments boil down to the assertion that an American invasion and occupation of Iraq would be for the Iraqi people's own g...

February 28, 2003

UCSB’s Health Education Can Help You Out

By Michelle Lemire

I just wanted to find out who on this campus cares about their body, their sex life and their wellbeing. I know I do; that's why I took a class at Student Health on communication and sexual health two years ago as a fres...

February 28, 2003

Daily Nexus Disappoints with Ill-Conceived Advertisement

By Lauren Ralph

Throughout my four years at UCSB, I have diligently read the Nexus almost every morning, interested to see what is affecting the UCSB campus and its students. I was absolutely horrified, however, to read last Thursday's ...

February 27, 2003

Make Like a Tree and Leave

By Henry Sarria

With everything going on in the world today it is so easy to overlook the things going on in our very own backyard at times. Sure, international politics affects us all on a big scale. But it is the events occurring dire...

February 27, 2003

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

By system

Thursday's forecast: Sunny and dry, apparently.

February 27, 2003

Policy Would Let Connerly Ward Off Researchers

By Dexter Ligot-Gordon

Last Saturday, the California Republican Party voted unanimously to support the initiative. California Republican leaders have a history of alienating moderates and people of color and greatly differ from the national Re...

February 27, 2003

Murder Case Leaves Dead Opinion Walking

By Drew Mackie

On Tuesday, the rootin' tootin' state of Texas executed its 298th inmate since the death penalty's re-institution in 1982. Capital punishment - both in Texas and in non-crazy states - is an unsightly blemish on the Unite...

February 27, 2003

U.S.A. Leads the Charge Into a Brave New World

By Joey Tartakovsky

The anti-war movement has little to do with an actual war. It's about something larger with even greater significance for which Iraq has only been the catalyst. It has opened a deep political rift that suggests placing t...

February 26, 2003

The Overworked Weatherhuman

By system

Wednesday's forecast: Today, expect partly cloudy skies with highs in the mid-60s and lows in the mid-40s. The week should be dry through Friday, but expect light showers Saturday afternoon.

February 26, 2003

What Is It Good for?

By Matthew Lamont Stern

A successful war against Saddam Hussein will lift the sanctions that many protest, U.S. aid will help curtail hunger and rising death tolls and Iraq will have a chance at a government that is democratic.