Opinion

March 5, 2001

Column: Embracing Friends, Family Can Help Heal Pain

By Gail Marshall

The events of the past week have touched us all. We have learned much about our community and ourselves over these last several days.

March 5, 2001

New Election Code Gives Student Body Greater Voice

By Staff

I am writing in response to the persistent and blatant attacks on the upcoming election code.

March 5, 2001

[Re]I.V. Project Must Balance Local Population

By Staff

Transform a seaside community/college town into a college town/seaside community, and what do you get? More drunken fights and rudeness, loss of neighborhood quiet zones, more apartment fires and more traffic accidents.

March 5, 2001

Local Leaders Failed to Act Rationally After Tragedy

By Staff

After one occurred over the weekend, it would have been nice to look toward local leaders with faith in their abilities, but, personally, this was not possible.

March 2, 2001

The Community Mourns — Most Never Knew the Victims, But None Will Forget

By Henry Sarria

As we watched the ghastly images on the grainy home video tape play on CNN, the full impact of the carnage started to hit me, and my friends could see it. Very seldom do I cry or does my voice choke, but this time it hap...

March 2, 2001

A.S. Week of Reflection Should Be for Mourning

By Staff

Why are you overshadowing a week of reflection that should be set aside strictly for mourning the tragic loss of four innocent victims with substances we don't even know were involved in the accident?

March 2, 2001

Bearing Bad News: The Regrets of Delivery

By Staff

Some days I really hate my job. It's an easy job. I just deliver newspapers. You know, like the Daily Nexus.

March 1, 2001

Candlelight Vigil Allows People to Share Emotions

By Vicky N. Leung

Beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Storke Plaza, we will join together in a time for remembrance and reflection.

March 1, 2001

MADD Offers Advice for Stuents Who Are Grieving

By Frank Hamilton

This process must be faced, and the grief worked through if there is to be any resolution to your feelings. The pain will subside.

February 28, 2001

Wake Up and Smell Your Spectacle Society

By David Downs

The rain comes down in a halo of streetlight amber. Thousands of students stand silently in the road weeping. Behind the silence, a dozen power generators hum the TV stations' live feeds.

February 28, 2001

Column: Students Should Have Say in Elections Code

By Mahader Tesfai A.S. President

The new tally system is a loophole to get around the A.S. constitutional amendment that states that student representatives shall be voted in by 50 percent plus one of the A.S. student membership.

February 28, 2001

Mexico Fails to Acknowledge Its Los Negros History

By Lorenzzo Covarrubias

Mexican blacks have had a long and storied history in the country. Yet it is a story that is denied, not shared and officially obscured.

February 28, 2001

We Must Change Society’s View of ‘Ideal’ Body Shape

By Karen Booth

When the majority of women see a "beautiful" model, they wonder, "why can't I look like that?"

February 28, 2001

Counting Calories – Personal Health and Well-Being Are More Important Than Losing Weight

By Lynnae Pedrotti

By the end of my first year at UCSB, I had gone from 120 pounds to 130 pounds and then down to 106 pounds. I was scared.

February 28, 2001

Eating Disorders Are Just as Serious for Men

By Staff

So, maybe a man skips a meal and has a PowerBar instead; perhaps he wants to get rid of "excess" fat, so he throws up after a meal or tries not to eat at all.

February 28, 2001

Earnhardt’s Life Makes His Death No Less Sad

By Staff

I thought it was ridiculous for Downs to claim that Dale Earnhardt's death was not a tragedy and then try to justify his own speedy driving by claiming it is the American Way.