Everyone tells me how amazing Cinco de Mayo downtown is going to be ... I know the truth.
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Teachers, Students Must Defend Social Justice Around the World

I have not and will never abuse my power as a professor. I love what I do too much to ever do this.
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Students Should Support Players’ Artistic Freedom

As a student of this university you should be aware that there are consequences to standing up for your rights.
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There Is No Point in Looking for a Diet Miracle in a Bottle

The advertisers behind diet products definitely know how to target their audience. People want the quick, easy way out, and this is definitely the case when it comes to losing weight.
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A Tale of Two Cities

The birth of a new city is before us. No doubt the gestation has been long and the labor arduous, but the real pain is being inflicted upon those of us waiting expectantly for the Local Agency Formati...
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NNNN-TSSSS

I was studying at the library yesterday when a delightful young man asked if he could sit at my table. Not feeling particularly threatened, I said yes. He sat down and unpacked his backpack, carefully...
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Nexus, University Fail Lecturers

Never believe the old saw that bad news coverage is better than no news coverage at all.
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Pro-Life Feminism Follows an Action-Based Philosophy

In many respects, "pro-life feminism" agrees with the philosophy of "inclusive pacifism."
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Obsessive Exercise Is an Overlooked Eating Disorder

Compulsive exercise. Many of us have heard about the staggering percentages of eating disorders among students on the UCSB campus, but do we realize that obsessive exercise is one of them?
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Students Must Consider Whether Tax Cuts Are Fair

The submission regarding tax cuts (Reader's Voice, "Students Should Back Bush's Tax Cuts for Rich," April 26) is the most blatantly propagandistic string of sentences I have seen grace the pages of th...
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Building Blues

There is no question that the proposed I.V. Community Center would be a wonderful asset to this town - but the more pertinent issue at hand raises a question of priority.
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Incompetence Smells Worse Than So-called Swine

Once, when I was a lowly crime reporter, I asked a wise old Isla Vista cop why he was always so polite to us Nexites. He said, "It's never a good idea to mess with people who buy ink by the barrel."
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A Summer of ‘Gray-Outs’

Oh yes, rolling blackouts (or Gray-outs as I like to think of them) are coming, and they will be here in abundance this summer. The state of California is in an energy crisis and the governor is in ho...
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Lunchtime Lockdown

I have observed UCSB departmental offices for four years. As a public service, I will now print the secretive campuswide schedule for these offices.
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U.S. Missile Shield Is Best Protection From Attack

Right now we are on the top and this means we cannot be complacent and stop technological progress just because we are scared of what it may bring.
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