Opinion

February 4, 2003

We Might as Well Face It, the United States Is Addicted to Oil

By Joey Tartakovsky

Being addicted to oil from Arab autocracies, like we are now, is terrible policy. It gives such states influence that they shouldn't have, given our vastly different interests and lack of shared values.

February 4, 2003

For the Love of Outer Space

By Henry Sarria

But knowledge of the safety aspects never eliminates the shock that affects all aspects of our society and the rest of the international community when such a disaster occurs.

February 4, 2003

Everyone Should Drill for Information About the Environment

By Kerry Vineberg

It is disturbing that one has to delve so deeply for new, clear information about what the administration is doing.

February 4, 2003

Think

By system

February 3, 2003

Achoo!

By system

I hate dust. Living in Isla Vista is like setting up a shanty insida a vacuum bag. I leave my stuff out for a week and when I retrieve it I feel like an Indiana Jones raching for a spider-covered idol in the back of some...

February 3, 2003

Lab Rat: Remember the Beauty of Exploration

By Josh Braun

More pressure, less funding - this is the true recipe for disaster. Corporations, politicians and public interest all have something to say about how scientists ply their trade. And as I learned about it, I learned about...

January 31, 2003

Living Without Vowels: A Better Kind of Outbreak

By Steven Ruszczycky

Lots of people are pretty mad about Bush's State of the Union Address, so mad that they held peaceful demonstrations and mocked the commander in chief's pronunciation of the word "nuclear."

January 31, 2003

Write Good

By system

After careful research, I have determined that there are only three kinds of midterms. In keeping with UCSB's fine tradition of simplifying issues until an acronym can be found, I have listed them

January 31, 2003

Loss of Learning Should Be an Adequate Excuse From Jury Duty

By Jennifer Skye Wallace

As a history major, I've learned that when studying any given event or period, one should look for all possible factors or motives behind that given event: social, international, economic.

January 31, 2003

An X-Game by Any Other Name Still Isn’t All That Extreme

By Henry Sarria

It is that time once again, and I'm seriously not looking forward to it. The X Games are coming to fascinate the minds of so-called extreme viewers and spectators of the sport spectacle of the century. I won't be one of ...

January 31, 2003

Don’t Be Quick to Assume the Residency of UCSB Students

By Mike Willis

I imagine that I am not alone in being a little disturbed by Justin Ruhge's column (Daily Nexus, "Temporary Student Residents Shouldn't Play with Voting Blocks," Jan. 28, 2003).

January 31, 2003

The Wednesday Hump Bumps, Grinds and Misses the Point

By Daphne Adato

I guess it takes a woman writing about women to create even more contradictions and problems. I applaud Beth Van Dyke's attempt to take a crack at the battle of the sexes.

January 29, 2003

They’re Out for Blood

By Drew Mackie

It's the prickly presence of a nuclear mosquito, a member of the oversized, bloodthirsty, buzzing, scummy lagoon-spawning, itch-inducing tribe of bugs that that now apparently calls UCSB home.

January 29, 2003

Coin-Op Hell

By system

The decline of Western civilization is an agonizingly slow process peppered with occasional indicators like inflation, reduced funding for the arts, limitations to individual freedoms, "Elimidate," the rise of corporate ...

January 29, 2003

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

By system

Unless the concept of "more bang for your buck" directly relates to a massive spontaneous failure of the kidneys, two and a half hours is just too long.

January 29, 2003

What Women Really Want

By Beth Van Dyke

I've decided that women are crazy. I know this because I am crazy. Sometimes I think I should take myself out on a date because I'm the only one who would truly understand the capacity of my insanity.