Opinion

April 20, 2015

Ready, Set, Vote

By Sophia Crisafulli

If there’s one thing young people love, it’s being didactically preached to about civic responsibility and the importance of voting. Stop any given 20 something you may pass on the street, inquire as to how he orshe ...

April 20, 2015

Elections and the Ever-Growing Ego

By Leilani Leila Riahi

  Your face is everywhere. Your voice rings throughout cramped lecture halls. You don’t even know how many people you’ve commodified yourself toward — how many hands you’ve shaken with or without feeling, ho...

April 16, 2015

The Whiteness of Lucidity: Everything But Inclusive

By Leilani Leila Riahi

Why did he start dancing like a ‘gypsy’ Disney character right when I sat down? UGH. This was one of the many uncomfortable questions I had to ask myself this past Sunday while attending the Lucidity Festival: Kindre...

April 15, 2015

Is Coachella for Everyone?

By Katherine Anderson

Coachella. It’s the word on everybody’s lips in the month of April. “Are you going to Coachella? What are you wearing? Who are you going with? Where are you staying? VIP or General Admission?” YouTube is offering...

April 14, 2015

What’s in a Name?

By Matthew Meyer

When a group of militants captured swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria last June, journalists and public figures employed a common vocabulary to document the events. Words like, “assault,” “brutality,” “extre...

April 13, 2015

Gender Discrimination’s Impact on Male to Female University Attendance

By Emily Potter

Because of gender discrimination, women have to do just as well as their male counterparts — and then some — to succeed. They have to be exceptional.

April 10, 2015

Extrovert Myths: Dispelled

By Alyssa Evans

  It is often said that the world can be divided into groups of two people.The definitions of these groups vary: for high-school English teachers, it is “good” and “bad.” For psychologists, “clinically ins...

April 9, 2015

Greek Life: Breaking the Stereotype

By Kyle Stivers

Over the last year, Greek life at UCSB has come under heightened scrutiny due to the closure of several campus-recognized fraternity chapters. This, along with recent widespread media coverage of the unacceptable video ...

April 8, 2015

Dull Deltopia

By David P.

Dear Police Chief Dustin, I believe your personal actions surrounding Deltopia were unethical and illegal. While the events of 2009 may have been a bit chaotic, and possibly unsanitary, closing the beaches and berating ...

April 7, 2015

The Cult(ure) of Competition

By David Rubinstein

With March Madness just entering the rear view mirror, baseball season starting up and basketball season in full throttle, America’s Big Gulp of competition is overflowing even more than usual. In America, we raise our...

April 6, 2015

Growing Pains

By Sophia Crisafulli

How long can we really "be a kid"? Perhaps the state of mind has less to do with age than we normally imagine

April 3, 2015

Socialism for All

By David Rubinstein

David Rubinstein calls for revolution

April 2, 2015

Supplements: Worth the Cost?

By Betsy Reynolds-Malear

Getting pumped to down another protein shake? The experts at Student Health and Wellness suggest you think about a

April 2, 2015

A Call for Divestment

By Opinion Editor

Students for Justice in Palestine call for members of Associated Students to address the Palestinian Civil Society’s global call for a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

March 31, 2015

Myths of the Majors

By Katherine Anderson

Katherine Anderson has an answer for the endless career questioning thrown at non-STEM majors

March 30, 2015

Navigating the Multicultural Campus

By Sabrina Hodjati

Sabrina Hodjati discusses the enriching possibilities in entering an unfamiliar social milieu, and some of the difficulties in keeping these experiences positive