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Home Schooling

May 7, 2002 by Staff Editorial

To wit, anytime an undergraduate gets cited for a misdemeanor involving alcohol or an illegal drug, the university is going to send a letter home to his or her parents.
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Weather: It’s Not a Virus, It’s Free Porno

May 7, 2002 by Staff

The dirty Melissa Virus infected Nexus computers for about a week. It scrambled Word documents and had the potential to send porno to everyone who communicates with the Nexus via email. We didn’...
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Living Without Vowels: Shut Your Mouth and Let Me Speak

May 7, 2002 by Steven Ruszczycky

You can agree that Attias did what he did. But God help you if you're not out chanting for blood. If you should mention that Attias doesn't deserve to die, kiss a pound of your pink flesh goodbye.
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A.S. It Is: Nasty Tactics Give A.S. the Tough Lovin’ It Sorely Needs

May 7, 2002 by Chris Hubbard

Leave it to the Nexus to misrepresent the goings-on at Legislative Council and to contradict itself in its editorial ("Clowning Around," May 3).
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Increase in Parking Fees Will Create Unsafe Conditions for All Students

May 7, 2002 by Eitan Loewenstein

I'm very disappointed in our school after hearing about a new policy to begin charging students to park on campus during weekend and night hours.
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Thanks to Isla Vista Residents for Not Making Fools of Themselves

May 7, 2002 by Patrick J. McKinley

Please convey our thanks to all the people on Sabado Tarde last Friday during the jury visit. The respect they showed the jurors and the memory of the students killed and injured was unmistakable.
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I May Be A Lame Duck, But Now Everyone Else Is Too

May 6, 2002 by Jonathan Kalinski

The events of last Wednesday's Associated Students Legislative Council meeting illustrate what I already knew but what many got their first lesson in: how to play hardball politics.
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Weather: Sic Semper Tirannus!

May 6, 2002 by Staff

My house was invaded by a spy in the form of a small dog.
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Nexus Should Criticize Defense’s Delivery and Not Its Content

May 6, 2002 by Jose F. Moreno

What they say is true. In Isla Vista, there are burning couches, keg beer and whatnot. Here is a sampling of whatnot‚ compiled by the Daily Nexus:
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The Sports Fee Failure Means the Death of UCSB. Yeah, Right.

May 6, 2002 by Brett D. Gibson

I could not agree more with Jennifer Rudy's assessment of the A.S. elections (The Reader's Voice, "UCSB Students Dropped the Prestigious Ball During Elections," May 2, 2002, Daily Nexus).
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Clowning Around

May 3, 2002 by Staff

Out-going Gauchoholic Leggies at Wednesday night's Leg Council provided more fun for Daily Nexus reporters than a massive clown orgy, it was also an act of pure spite and bad form.
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I’ll Be a Millionaire

May 3, 2002 by Staff

Scientists recently announced the development of Radio-Controlled Rats(tm)(c)(r), rats with electrodes in their brains that can be made to perform different tasks.
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No One Is Laughing at Racist Abercrombie & Fitch Shirts

May 3, 2002 by Christine Bai

As an Asian-American, I was pretty pissed off when I read the recent articles on Abercrombie & Fitch featuring negative, stereotypical images of Asians on their new line of T-shirts.
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Wily Vipers Burn Associated Students Behind Them

May 3, 2002 by Brendan Buhler

In tactics reminiscent of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov's, Representative Martin T. Doyle is burning every financial field and shooting every cash cow that SAC forces could find useful, and a great deal be...
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Night, Weekend Parking Fees Are Unjust and We Must Fight the University on This

May 3, 2002 by Sara Martinovich

Did I read correctly in April 29th's Nexus that UCSB has found a new way to swindle money out of the student body? Please tell me it is not true that "Parking Services will charge $2 per night/weekend...
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