Opinion

April 9, 2002

Weatherticket 2002

By Staff

Its popularity contest season again. Associated Students candidates spent Sunday night littering campus with illegible campaign materials.

April 9, 2002

Living Without Vowels: We Must Take Time to Reflect on the Past

By Steven Ruszczycky

UCSB received its own chilling reminder of the Holocaust on Monday as the names of those who died in the holocaust echoed through Storke Plaza.

April 8, 2002

Thomas Deputizes Politics

By Staff

Sheriff Jim Thomas has decided to end his career with a bang - a big bang, right upside Gail Marshall's head. Sadly, it looks like Gail's offering up her cranium for the blow.

April 8, 2002

National Geographic

By Staff

I emerged from the weathercave Saturday evening to replenish my meteorological supplies and found myself immersed in a foreign land.

April 8, 2002

Crappy Lease Agreements

By Dallas Atkins

LESSEE'S OBLIGATION OF MAINTENANCE OF THE PREMISES: ... Lessee shall be responsible for any damages to leased premises during the term of the lease and for actual costs of all drain, toilet and disposal obstructions exce...

April 8, 2002

The Red Tape: Big Bad Websites Can’t Give Cookies to Children – Can I Be 12?

By Josh Braun

I am about to turn 12 - online anyway. You see, although I'm 21 years old at the moment, I stumbled across some information about online marketing that has put me in touch with my inner child.

April 8, 2002

My Big Idea for UCSB is All Wet

By Brian Hampton

So I had an idea. It wasn't an original idea, but it was about something that this campus needs and does not officially have: professor evaluations that students can look at when deciding what classes to take.

April 8, 2002

If Life Seems Jolly Rotten, You’ve Forgotten to Laugh, Smile and Sing

By Chris Montes De Oca

Some days life isn't going that well. You fail your math final and have to repeat the class, you get dumped, you lose your bike lock or, even better, you get in a bike accident. Then, when you think things can't get any ...

April 4, 2002

To Access the Daytime Menu, Press One

By Staff

The RBT menu has a new addition. "Press four to hear a frog croak," offers the monotone.

April 4, 2002

UC Pulls Out of Israel

By Staff

The University of California system has decided to cut short its education abroad program in Israel due to increasing security and safety issues for students - and it's a damn shame.

April 4, 2002

The Unholy Land

By Staff

The violence between Israelis and Palestinians is horrific and the United States must do everything in its power to bring about peace. At this stage of the conflict, it does no good to blame one side or the other for sta...

April 4, 2002

Nexus Columnist Shouldn’t Use Bad Taste to Prove Point

By Kathryn Colby

I protested abortion on Monday. And so did other pro-lifers. Cops came. I was prayed for. I was thanked. I was told to calm down. I was pissed.

April 4, 2002

UC Ruined My Year By Pulling Israeli EAP Program

By Jarad Bernstein

As I sit here in my Jerusalem dorm room, overlooking the Old City, I can only express seething anger at the University that has made my life miserable for the past two days.

April 4, 2002

Filipina Student Objects to Insensitive April Fool’s Article

By Christine Apa

I am writing in reference to the article in the April Fool's Day edition of the Nexus entitled, "U.S. army nukes the Philippines." I am outraged by the pure insensitivity and the lack of humor in this article.

April 4, 2002

Israeli EAP Program Too Risky for UCSB Students

By John Corbett

The University of California should be applauded, not criticized, for suspending the study abroad programs in the Middle East until the level of violence decreases.

April 3, 2002

Red Tape: The Cutting Edge of Adventure

By Josh Braun

Ahh, the sights and sounds of southwest Utah: the babbling streams, the venous walls of crimson rock towering above the desert floor, and the Traveler-model Swiss army knife blade protruding from my hand.