Opinion
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 ...
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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 m...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 Weatherfi...
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My sense of cultural heritage is entirely contained in the lefsa I ignore on the table every Thanksgiving to honor my Norwegian ancestry.
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Thanksgiving marks the return of home and everything familiar that comes along with home. Including your ex.
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The phrase 'To kill two birds with one stone' haunted me all weekend. Has anyone ever seen anybody kill one bird with one stone?
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The United States' dependency on petroleum threatens our very own back yard here in Santa Barbara.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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 r...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
