Opinion

January 24, 2003

Living without Vowels: We Don’t Have to GRID and Bare Bigot’s Assignment

By Steven Ruszczycky

Jerry Thacker looks very unassuming. He's middle-aged with a disarming, aw-shucks smile. He looks more appropriately suited for overalls and a nice pumpkin farm where the kiddies come every October.

January 23, 2003

The Problem With Pigskin

By Drew Mackie

This Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday. But if you're like me, whether one pirate-themed team triumphs over a second pirate-themed team amounts to mere pieces of eight.

January 23, 2003

Tannenbaum, But Not Forgotten

By system

There's a preponderence of dry, discarded Christmas tree corpses all along the sidewalks of Pasado. What's a prank-loving weatherhuman to do? It's the Evergreen Ding-Dong ditch.

January 23, 2003

Concerning War With Iraq, Might Does not Make Right

By Peggy Tsieng

I don't want innocent blood shed for war, I'm afraid for my friends and family if war breaks out and I believe people in Iraq and certainly around the world have the same fears and hopes.

January 23, 2003

Editorial Makes the Nexus Just as Foolish as Ward Connerly

By Steven B. Crotti Grad Student Assoc.

I suggest that in the future you try to make sure that what you allow to be printed in your paper makes at least some sense. The main point in your staff editorial (Daily Nexus, "Go to Hell," Jan. 22) makes your paper lo...

January 22, 2003

Go to Hell

By system

On Dec. 13, UC Regent Ward Connerly appeared on "Wolf Blitzer Reports" and issued a halfhearted defense for the comments made by Sen. Trent Lott during Strom Thurmond's birthday party.

January 22, 2003

The Most Unkindest Cut of All

By system

The weathercavemates have taken to loaning out important dishes. Slowly but surely, the entire nonedible contents of our kitchen are disappearing.

January 22, 2003

No Matter How Old You Are, No Still Means No

By Beth Van Dyke

I must have a sign on my forehead that reads, "Please sexually harass me if you are over 40 and you love to go to 634 on college night. I'm desperate."

January 22, 2003

We Came, We Saw, We Dot-commed; Could You Spare a Nickel?

By Tiye Baldwin

Oh to be a dot-commer when the world was rife with stock options, catered two-hour lunches and, last but not least, jobs. That was then and this is now.

January 22, 2003

War in Iraq? Yes, Just as Long as It Doesn’t Come Back Home

By Ron Fink

The only point on which I could find agreement with the handful of war protesters and pacifists on the central coast is that war should be avoided at all costs on the North American continent.

January 22, 2003

Tobacco Is Much Better at Causing Cancer Than Marijuana

By Dr. Robert J. Melamede Biology Dept. Univ of Colorado

One of the arguments against the use of marijuana for any reason is its carcinogenic potential. Prohibition supporters often cite that marijuana smoke has even more cancer-causing compounds than does tobacco smoke.

January 22, 2003

think

By system

January 21, 2003

Drugstore Cowboy: Real Reality Television

By Cory Anthony

A row of hooting and hollering in what must have been the deepest voices these freshmen could've mustered went up, and a circle developed out at the balcony overlooking the ocean.

January 21, 2003

I’m Busy Saturday… I’m Busy a Lot.

By system

I hate cell phones. I'm not talking about how they ring in the middle of an exam or how they play horrifying renditions of "Scotland the Brave." I'm talking about the automatic redial function.

January 21, 2003

Booze, Pot Are Not the Best Way to a Higher Degree

By Justin Levy

We are not bettering ourselves through this endless process of drinking and using drugs, but are merely repeating what the students before us have done.

January 21, 2003

War With Iraq May Not Be So Highly Illogical

By Matt McComb

I do not agree with many of the policies the government has enacted since his election, but I think it is unfortunate that it appears students' disapproval of Bush in general leads them to automatically disapprove of any...