Opinion

January 6, 2003

Know Your Limits as You Ride the Waves

By Dwayne Hauschild

In light of the recent death of a fellow surfer at Devereux this weekend, I felt I needed to finally write a note of concern to the local surf community in respect to water safety.

January 6, 2003

Changing Highway 217 Could Tamper With Old Memories

By David Gonzales

Why don't you join the others who help keep the campus clean by picking up one piece of discarded litter you encounter each time you walk to your class, office, or meeting?

December 5, 2002

Living Without Vowels: Go Home, Sweet Home

By Steven Ruszczycky

The lights are out. Scraps of paper yanked along by the wind scrape along the sidewalks. That's it. Isla Vista during the holidays is a lot like that. Empty. Desolate. Boring.

December 5, 2002

Teach Your Children Well

By Staff

Taking finals at a research university means being tested on a lot of crap that your professor never got around to teaching. God, I love college.

December 5, 2002

The Wednesday Thursday Hump: Not Quite Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

By Beth Van Dyke

Breaking up is a typical Fall Quarter event. And the best part is, it always tends to happen a few days before you plan to study for finals. Breaking up is also an art - not a thing most people recognize.

December 5, 2002

World AIDS Day Is a Time to Search for Strength and Truth

By Toney Henry

Fear and vulnerability: These are two words that come to my mind whenever someone mentions the terms HIV or AIDS. For so long, the fact that anyone had to live with AIDS seemed foreign to me, distant and certainly not my...

December 5, 2002

UCSB’s Sidewalks Are Not the Play Things of Drivers

By Behrooz Parhami

Campus walkways should enjoy the same status as city sidewalks. One does not see cars and trucks on State Street sidewalks in downtown Santa Barbara, yet our walkways are sometimes more crowded than most city sidewalks.

November 26, 2002

Giblets and Gravy

By Staff

A well-deserved turkey to all the professors who canceled class on Wednesday. Students deserve a break and a chance to beat the holiday traffic.

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

And Not a Soul in Sight

By Staff

It's like the campus that feared sundown. If you're reading this, you're a more dedicated student than the Weatherhuman, who has fled class for his Weatherhome for Weatherturkey with all the Weatherfixings.

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

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

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

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.