Opinion

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.

January 29, 2003

Survey Says: Bitter North County Resident Is a Sore Loser

By Tom Beers

Mr. Ruhge bemoans the legislation and voting outcomes that have occurred in Santa Barbara County due to student voting. He concludes by urging students to vote absentee at their parents' homes.

January 29, 2003

Fixed Seawall Threatens to Leave Goleta Beach High and Dry

By Christine Underwood Aaron Gillman Deanna Kavanaugh-Jones

In April 2000, students from I.V. Surfrider and the A.S. Environmental Affairs Board rallied together to oppose the seawall being constructed at Goleta Beach.

January 29, 2003

Take Advantage of Petition to Save UCSB Student Services

By Don Devich Office of Student Life

This week, UCSB students have the opportunity to make sure they will have a choice about the continuation of programs sponsored by the Office of Student Life.

January 28, 2003

Drugstore Cowboy: Just Your Standard Student

By Cory Anthony

So in that lull of memorization when absolutely necessary, flipping our excuses and learning tricks to doing well on standardized tests, it seems that people are getting great grades and learning something very close to ...

January 28, 2003

All in the Family

By system

Against all probability, my anthro professor said something interesting today:"You are the product of an evolutionary line of organisms that, over the course of three and a half billion years, has never once failed to re...

January 28, 2003

Temporary Student Residents Shouldn’t Play With Voting Blocks

By Justin M. Ruhge

The local permanent residents believe that the students have no vested interest in local elections and that they should exempt themselves from voting in them.

January 28, 2003

Lab Rat: Genetic Map May Lead to Designer Drugs, Cures and Children

By Josh Braun

They are the logical result of a collision course between science, religion and the humanities - and at the same time a place where logic breaks down.