Opinion

January 21, 2003

The Recreation Center Is Expanding, You Dumb Bell

By Melissa McCartney RecCen Student Supervisor

With the university's ever-growing student population, buildings cannot be expected to spring up overnight to compensate for the increasing crowds.

January 21, 2003

Patriot Act Transforms Our Uncle Sam Into a Peeping Tom

By Erland Sanborn

There's plenty of documentation that our own country has had a curious history of supporting terrorist regimes for the last 20-30 years.

January 21, 2003

Absence of Borders Is Not Proof of a Nation’s Absence

By Mike Willis

The conversation between the professor and the student is perfectly legitimate, and does not a priori imply that the sovereign state of Israel should be removed from the map.

January 17, 2003

Do It for Dr. King

By Drew Atkins

When King's birthday is celebrated, it's common to focus on his life prior to the implementation of his civil rights work and to ignore what he was trying to accomplish in his last years of life.

January 17, 2003

Weekend

By system

If you're reading this, you missed out on the chance for a four-day weekend. But instead you're in class right now or studying in the UCEN. Way to screw it up for the rest of us.

January 17, 2003

Heavy RecCen Congestion Is Not Worth the Weight

By Jon Morin

It is an everyday nightmare when you walk into the gym and see the extremely overcrowded nature of the gym. Not only are all of the four treadmills filled up, but the weight room is also always filled to the brim with UC...

January 17, 2003

UC Budget Cuts Hit the Books and the Students

By Lora Richards Davidson Library

I've been working alongside students here at UCSB for 12 years, and I am genuinely distressed that our situation has degenerated to a point where I say, "Welcome to the Ripped-off by the Regents Club!"

January 16, 2003

Beware of Our Fine, Furry Friends

By Drew Mackie

We're losing a war in Isla Vista, one overturned trashcan at a time. The gang of which I speak is, of course, the raccoons. You see them in I.V., rooting through garbage and staring with shiny, beady eyes.

January 16, 2003

Hell on Wheels

By system

My bicycle has turned against me. It's a simple collection of moving parts so basic that even I understand how it works. But no matter how many bolts I tighten, no matter how many times I fix the fix the brakes, patch th...

January 16, 2003

A Letter of Apology

By system

On Jan. 13, 2003, the Daily Nexus Opinion section ran a column by Steven Ruszczycky entitled "Simian Antics Drive I.V. Residents Ape." While well-intentioned, the column only served to hurt feelings and cause gross embar...

January 16, 2003

People Shouldn’t Be Fooled By Political Pot Smoke and Mirrors

By Robert Sharpe

Kudos to Kristina Ackermann for an excellent overview of 2002 developments in marijuana law reform (Daily Nexus, "2002: The Year in Marijuana," Jan. 14). It's important to note that punitive marijuana laws have little, i...

January 15, 2003

A Fiscal Proposal

By system

Undergraduates have a substantial tuition increase of $135 coming their way with the regents meeting today and tomorrow to decide if students should pay even more.

January 15, 2003

Knick-Knack, Paddy-Whack

By system

The other day I came home from a hard afternoon of shopping for Thor's Tip-Top Thunderbolts and Ten-Trailer Tornados only to find that the weather cavemate had carelessly left out some cream-filled cookies.

January 15, 2003

Is That a Pole in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

By Beth Van Dyke

I was watching the movie "Striptease" over break and I realized two things immediately: a) "Why the hell am I watching this?" and b) "Wow, I've always wanted to twirl around on a pole like that."

January 15, 2003

Students Shouldn’t Stand for Fee Increase

By Marissa Brown

As you may already know, just this past month the UC Regents approved a quarterly tuition increase of $135 to take effect this spring. Now they must decide whether to raise it an additional $795 for the 2003-04 school ye...

January 15, 2003

Patriot Act Is There to Protect Your Rights, Not to Shred Them

By Bill Ryder

By limiting access to our financial institutions, the Patriot Act, I hope, will help dry up the flow of funds to terrorists from within and outside the country.