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Please Learn Respect for Queer Community Issues

February 20, 2002 by Michelle Morales

We at A.S. Queer Commission are strongly appalled by the ignorance behind Martin Doyle's comments regarding "lesbian pornography" at the Leg Council meeting on Feb. 6.
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Doyle Should Apologize for His Ignorant Remarks

February 20, 2002 by Dora Morse

Doyle's conduct was extremely unbecoming of a legislative council representative - a representative for the student body, of which about 54 percent are women and, theoretically, 18 percent of whom are...
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Living Without Vowels: Sure They All Have Mustaches, But Which One’s Butch?

February 19, 2002 by Steven Ruszczycky

Jim Thomas, Santa Barbara County's sheriff for the past 12 years, will be leaving office in 2003. His intentions have turned political, running against Marshall in an election this summer and relying ...
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Golden Whining

February 19, 2002 by Staff

As I sat on my couch and knocked back another beer, I realized that I would never compete in the two-man luge.
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Olympics Refuses to Remember the Slain Israeli Athletes of ’72

February 19, 2002 by Joey Tartakovsky

Since the Munich Massacre in 1972, those wishing to honor the dead have requested the International Olympic Committee do so as well, but the IOC has resisted, citing concerns about protests from Arab ...
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Students Can Vote on the Recall With Absentee Ballots

February 19, 2002 by Benjamin Wood

One's whereabouts at the time of the election should not interfere with one's right to vote. You have the right to vote by mail with an absentee ballot.
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Column a Disservice to Journalistic Profession

February 15, 2002 by Joe Banasch

This is in response to Eliav Appelbaum's column "Don't Forget the Olympic Athletes Who Died in '72." I cannot stay silent in face of such inflammatory and substandard journalism.
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Gratefully Guzzling

February 15, 2002 by Staff

I liken Valentine's Day to a pinkened skin rash. Cheesy candy, plastic flowers, pathetically hollow cards, bad commercials, a blinding overflow of pink and red, and way too much PDA (public displays o...
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Get Off Your Cell Phone and Learn to Bike, You Jerk

February 15, 2002 by Alexis Allen

I know that cell phones are an integral part of our culture. But how necessary is it to be in constant communication during the five to eight minute ride to and from campus?
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Weather Dating Game

February 14, 2002 by Staff

The weathermates have attributed the weatherpet's ill temper to lack of companionship. I have decided to wield my three inches of power to make a small mammal love connection and find him a special la...
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Barbaric Tenants Are to Blame for the Slum of I.V.

February 14, 2002 by Jackie Silverman

I took a job as the on-site manager of the building I live in. After holding this job for a quarter and a half I have developed a different outlook on what goes on in I.V.
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Both Pleasure, Peril Await if You Sleep Around

February 14, 2002 by Rebecca Present-Thomas

With all the hormones raging among the average college student, the concept of an "open relationship' is not uncommon
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Valentine’s Day Isn’t Just for Smooching

February 14, 2002 by Michelle Lemire

I'd like to take a moment and look at another important issue at hand: the dreaded V-Day. No, not you, Vagina Monologues. I mean Valentine's Day, loved by so many, and yet hated by so many.
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Queer Student Union Can Be an Inclusive Organization if We Take Pride In It

February 14, 2002 by Michael Rasmussen

Queer Pride Week for UCSB is more than two months away, and the divisions within our campus' queer community are already becoming evident.
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Who Needs Legislative Council?

February 13, 2002 by Mel Fabi

Let's eliminate district representation and, in place of it, have the chairs of the boards, committees and commissions as the new representatives.
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