Opinion

May 30, 2025

Best Of 2025

By Daily Nexus Staff

The very best that UCSB has to offer, all in one place.

May 29, 2025

A word from our 2025 seniors

By Faith Talamantez, Jesse MacDonald, Erick Ruvalcaba

Three of our beloved seniors reflect on their years cramped beneath Storke Tower.

May 29, 2025

A word to our 2025 seniors

By Daily Nexus Staff

For the 2025 Best Of Edition, the Daily Nexus Opinion section heard from members of our editorial staff about the very best of the best: our 2025 seniors. 

May 22, 2025

Unraveling the dupatta: A trendy scarf or a story of cultural erasure?

By Kaavya Saini

Kaavya Saini discusses the scarf draped across your TikTok feed.

May 22, 2025

Colonial Naming at UCSB and the Inadequate Land Acknowledgement

By Ben Wollack

Ben Wollack's lunch got him thinking about the perpetuation of colonial values at UCSB.

May 22, 2025

AITO: should attendance be required?

By Malia Guy, Ben Wollack

Dear professors, stop requiring attendance It’s only week 4, and I’m sick for the second time. My fever is raging at 102 F, but I scarf down several ibuprofens and force myself to roll out of bed and head to campus w...

May 15, 2025

The “Gilmore Girls” paradox

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan shamelessly shows off her binge-watching T.V. skills — and her love for her mom.

May 8, 2025

Heartbreak and nature: it works

By Nestor Manzanares

Nestor Manzanares found healing somewhere that heartbreak couldn't reach him: the ocean.

May 8, 2025

U-MAIL: I miss you, I’m sorry

By Lucy Dixon

Lucy Dixon misses the UCSBear every day.

May 1, 2025

A new American order: The embrace of fascism and crusade against education in Trump’s first 100 days

By Lucy Dixon

Lucy Dixon reflects on the troubling first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term.

April 24, 2025

Put down the razor: Reflections on body hair, feminism and the politics of the personal

By Sneha Cheenath

Sneha Cheenath uses feminist literature to discuss oppressive beauty standards and her loathing of disposable razors.

April 17, 2025

What the f*** is a situationship?

By Kira Logan

Kira Logan contemplates the question we're all asking.

April 10, 2025

AITO: Out-of-Towners at Deltopia?

By Lucy Dixon, Nina Rossi

I.V. felt like Disneyland this past weekend By Nina Rossi As I walked down the streets of Isla Vista on Deltopia Eve felt like our town had been invaded. But oddly enough, it gave me a huge ego boost. Every time my frien...

March 6, 2025

Kendrick’s halftime show: It’s all there if you take the time to understand it

By Anusha Singh

Earlier this February, Kendrick Lamar made history as the first solo rap act to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. With a set design aimed at portraying Lamar’s life as a video game, his performance was characteriz...

February 27, 2025

An Ode to the Out-of-State Struggle

By Opinion Editor

When I flew back to school from my home in Colorado to start my sophomore year, my sister began to cry in the plane seat next to me. As we gazed over the Pacific, preparing to land in sunny Santa Barbara, she looked at m...

February 20, 2025

U-Mail: Advice from a wise 7-year-old

By Nina Rossi

I’m looking at my jewelry rack when suddenly my gold bracelet, which I coined as my “dayge bangle,” begins to look a little weird. It appears to have turned into a dolphin-shaped Sillybandz.  Here we go again.  I...