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Let Students Vote Where They Shed Their Blood, Sweat and Tears

October 21, 2002 by

What Justin Ruhge is requesting of the UCSB student population is misleading, false and inappropriate, as well as undemocratic and unconstitutional.
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Daily Nexus Should Show More Pride for Student Organizations

October 21, 2002 by

I was disappointed that the Daily Nexus chose to report on an event that occurred in downtown Santa Barbara at which only 20 people attended.
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For Better or Worse, Support Your Union When It Supports You

October 21, 2002 by

You complain that the clerical union automatically covers you, even though you don't want us. The other side of that coin is that maybe we don't want you either.
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Take Some Time to Think About Alcohol Safety and Responsibility

October 21, 2002 by

This week is National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Take this moment to reflect on what you did this past weekend. Perhaps you drank a little bit. Perhaps you drank quite a bit.
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Ow.

October 18, 2002 by

Weather-update: I have discovered the purpose behind the ill-placed muff-thumping, sack-attacking turnstiles in the library.
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Forcing Couches Inside Is as Smart as Burning Them

October 18, 2002 by

While reading "County May Push Couches Inside," I couldn't help but wonder where these Santa Barbara conservatives got their degrees. Do you really think that if someone wants to burn their couch they...
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Workers Don’t Always Have All the Options You Think

October 18, 2002 by

That members of the clerical union at UCSB do not have a choice about being a member of the union. By accepting a position here we are forced to be in the union and to pay dues each month, and must pa...
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Your Fair Market Value

October 17, 2002 by

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 do...
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Three Weeks, I’m Going Insane…

October 17, 2002 by

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.
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Recall Supporters Prey Upon Unwitting Isla Vista Residents

October 17, 2002 by

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.
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Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!

October 16, 2002 by

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

October 16, 2002 by and

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

October 16, 2002 by

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.
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No Strike and You’re Out

October 15, 2002 by

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 th...
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Yummy. Sorta.

October 15, 2002 by

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 ...
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