Opinion
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...
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Why do I have to get sick? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? And how will I bring laughter to the masses when I can't even breathe?
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This letter begins what I hope will be a continuing series promoting communication between the students of UCSB and law enforcement of our area.
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I would just like to say how extremely disappointed I am in the tone and nature of the email distributed to the UCSB student body.
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The sexual revolution in the last few decades has opened the backdoor to previously unacceptable sex practices.
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Beautiful - "having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight." Sexy - "arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest."
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If there's one way to avoid attention from the law this Halloween, it's to be the law. Dressing as police officers will provide you and your friends the opportunity to live out every law enforcement f...
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A storm is coming. It's coming from where you're from. It's your friends from back home. And boy, are they jazzed about coming to IV for Halloween.
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For those of you thinking about being your favorite Isla Vista Foot Patrol officer for Halloween, here are some reasons to reconsider. First, it's illegal. Now that that's out of the way, let's preten...
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Last week I was impressed to find how newsworthy my recent activities have been. I was honored to find not one, but two photographs involving my recent work on the front page of the campus newspaper.
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In his Oct. 27 ("Assault on Marriage Protection Falls Flat," Daily Nexus) response to Loren Williams' Thursday column "Marriage Protection Week is a Time to Fight Love," Scott Roney argues that Willia...
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As sure as there's an American dream, there's an IV dream. Baldo lived it to its depraved extent. He hotboxed FT. He stole booze from the local marts and hats from sorority girls.
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Being for peace should not mean perpetually opposing the use of the U.S. Military abroad, for that is the peace of the ideologue: because the deployment of U.S. soldiers is surely interlaced with impe...
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A few weeks ago, a group of Isla Vista's finest Foot Patrol officers served and protected our community by issuing my roommate a citation for violating the infamous midnight noise ordinance.
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Over the years - more than 25! - I have looked forward to reading the Daily Nexus. As an alumna and long-time employee of UCSB, I have been alternately informed, impressed, amused, and outraged by the...
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"Holes"
"The Sandlot"
"Goodwill Hunting"
"How to Train Your Dragon"
"Dead Poets Society"
"The Karate Kid"
"Ladybird"
"Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"The Edge of Seventeen"
"Up"
"Mid90s"
"Little Women"
