Opinion

November 26, 2002

A.S. It Is: When Budgets Go Bad

By Sarah Hooper

As the entire UCSB campus has been made duly aware, Associated Students is in a budget crisis. There are groups within Associated Students that are quietly continuing business as usual and doing some commendable things o...

November 26, 2002

Gobble Gobble, Baby

By Staff

The Weatherhuman was going to indulge his/her creativity in a pre-Thanksgiving haiku but forgot how many syllables go where. Funny how Googling "haiku" gets erotic haiku in just a few clicks.

November 26, 2002

Drugstore Cowboy: Thank You for the Culture, America

By Cory Anthony

My sense of cultural heritage is entirely contained in the lefsa I ignore on the table every Thanksgiving to honor my Norwegian ancestry.

November 26, 2002

This Thanksgiving, Remember: Be Thankful for Hairy Heinies

By Beth Van Dyke

Thanksgiving marks the return of home and everything familiar that comes along with home. Including your ex.

November 25, 2002

For Mother Nature’s Sake

By John Stevenson

The United States' dependency on petroleum threatens our very own back yard here in Santa Barbara.

November 25, 2002

And Another Bird, And Another Bird

By Staff

The phrase 'To kill two birds with one stone' haunted me all weekend. Has anyone ever seen anybody kill one bird with one stone?

November 25, 2002

G.E.’s Help Keep Ethnic History and Culture Alive in Education

By Brandon Bravo

UCSB, listen up: From the time we are old enough to watch and understand TV, through elementary, middle and high school we are taught the history of white America.

November 25, 2002

The Lab Rat: How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Fission

By Josh Braun

Shape charges are specialized explosives molded into special shapes that control the direction of their explosion. The directional force of these explosions results in incredible precision.

November 25, 2002

Why Worry About G.E.’s When No One Here Can Read or Write?

By Loren Willams

Recent opinion articles in the Nexus have convinced me that UCSB's general education requirements need to change. Though I'd be happy to see the non-Western culture requirement go, that's not what I'm talking about.

November 22, 2002

The Bigger Picture

By Roland Navarro

The staff editorial titled "G.E., I Wonder," (Daily Nexus, Nov. 18, 2002) shouldn't have been written. Your focus is wrong, and it was amusing to see the author think it was fair and accurate in its research and claims.

November 22, 2002

How to Write a Term Paper

By Staff

It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, a time for peace, unity and big-ass term papers. At one time or another, everyone has written a three-page term paper that needed to be a five-page term paper or vice-versa.

November 22, 2002

No Buts About It, Ass Grabbing Is Harassment

By Kimberly Stiner-Zercoe

In response to "If I Don't Mind When Someone Grabs My Ass, Why Should You?" (Daily Nexus, Nov. 18, 2002), harassment is harassment, harassment leads to assault, assault leads to rape.

November 21, 2002

Religious, Right Wing Nuts

By Henry Sarria

There are freedoms we enjoy as Americans that we take for granted. Some of these freedoms are a matter of life or death in other countries. Freedom of religion, speech and the right to protect oneself are but a few that ...

November 21, 2002

Countdown

By Staff

There are two long-held Thanksgiving traditions in college. The first of these is the well-known Turkey Drop, in which all of our beloved freshmen run home to their high school sweethearts and promptly dump their asses.

November 21, 2002

Even Prime Ministers Should Adhere to the Rules of Language

By Drew Mackie

Repeatedly, upper-division English professors and TAs at UCSB spend a ridiculous amount of class time explaining intricacies of grammar that students should have learned in elementary and high school.

November 21, 2002

Staff Editorial Fails Mission

By Robert Foss

I was most distressed to read the staff editorial, "Mission Statement," on Nov. 18, in which you make the claim that the efforts of the California Missions Foundation are both "sneaky and misguided."