Opinion

October 17, 2002

Three Weeks, I’m Going Insane…

By Staff

There is a conspiracy afoot. Before the year began, all the professors and TAs at this school decided to assign papers for the same three days.

October 17, 2002

Your Fair Market Value

By Christina M. Dauenhauer

In response to Cory Anthony's column, ("No Strike and You're Out"): Mr. Anthony, the fight might be ours someday? Ours? You mean I might take part in it? No, I don't think the fight will be mine. I don't plan on taking a...

October 17, 2002

Recall Supporters Prey Upon Unwitting Isla Vista Residents

By Henry Sarria

Small-town politics are no different from those big city shenanigans that soon become business as usual and proceed to make us jaded. In our small town it is no different.

October 16, 2002

Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!

By Staff

Every year the government spends $14,000 for every illegal immigrant and $24,000 for every prison inmate in California. You know, you'd think we could pay University staff enough to live on. But I guess not.

October 16, 2002

A.S. It Is: A Column A.S. You Like It

By Alex Gossage, Chrystine Lawson

Associated Students at UCSB is often criticized by a number of different people for a variety of reasons. Many of the more entertaining and newsworthy criticisms seen in the Daily Nexus have come from people within Assoc...

October 16, 2002

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream – Just Not in My Room

By Beth Van Dyke

We've all had them. Those bastard roommates who just plain don't give a shit if you are so close to them you can smell the alcohol on their breath as they are screwing the vagina off someone.

October 15, 2002

Yummy. Sorta.

By Staff

This year brought with it a new phenomenon: dining commons assignments. The first time I ate fried chicken in the dorms I found a feather. And then there was the worm in the potato. It only got worse from there.

October 15, 2002

No Strike and You’re Out

By Cory Anthony

Members of the Coalition of University Employees (C.U.E.) are striking to defend their right to earn living wages. They are also protesting the unfair bargaining tactics and bad faith that they say the University of Cali...

October 15, 2002

UCSB Students Shouldn’t Vote in County Elections

By Justin Ruhge

Students have the right to vote, but do they know for whom they are voting and the quality of the candidate record? Many students will not be returning after June and most do not live permanently in the 3rd District.

October 15, 2002

Don’t Dump Nuclear Waste Way Out West

By Jacqueline Binger

I did not know exactly where I was going or what I was going to, but I did know that I had to go. What I ended up at was the Action for Nuclear Abolition Peace Camp on Western Shoshone Nation lands.

October 15, 2002

Alas, Poor Fraternities and Sororities, I Knew Ye Well

By Dave Rachford Lambda Chi Alpha Advisor

Fraternities at UCSB appear to be dying. Many seem to think that UCSB's recent policy statement with greek organizations that fraternities are no longer allowed to have alcohol at their social events is the death knell o...

October 15, 2002

Have No Fear, UCSB and Isla Vista, Honest Jim Thomas Is Here

By Jim Thomas

I read the Daily Nexus every day - I have for years. Actually, I only used a small portion of your staff editorial ("Betrayed," Daily Nexus, May 4, 2001) regarding Gail Marshall's "betrayal."

October 14, 2002

Greenthief

By Staff

The police stopped a thief down the street from my apartment this weekend. "Bikes," I thought. Or maybe computer equipment. But no. His truck was full of stolen... palm fronds.

October 14, 2002

Sign Watch: A.S. Special Elections

By Staff

According to the A.S. constitution, campaigners have five days, or 120 hours, to remove any signage used during the election period or face a minimum fine of $10.

October 14, 2002

Lecturers: A Strike Should Not Screw Over Students

By Jeanne Umana

The reason I am writing this letter is not to tell you why I am joining the picket lines Oct. 14 and 15 but why I am not, at least not during my scheduled lecture.

October 11, 2002

For What It’s Worth

By Staff

Okay, I'll apologize. A.S. funds a lot of important stuff. They're pretty cranky about it, though. It's almost like they lost a million dollars of student money on the stock market.