Opinion

May 3, 2013

From the Makers of Massive Budget Cuts: A Digital Education

By Patrick Sheehan

From the makers of massive budget cuts: a digital education   Over the last four years, the top managers of the UC system — the governor and the UC Regents — have launched an accelerating effort to make online c...

May 3, 2013

East vs. West: Ask an Atheist Sizes Up World Religions

By Jay Grafft, Travis Vail

Prompt: Do Eastern religions provide any benefits that Western ones might not?   In the Western world, or at least in the United States, religions of the Orient have increasingly come to take on an “exotic” and ...

May 2, 2013

Shoot the Messenger (But Not Literally!): The Media’s Incendiary Tug-of-War

By Mark Strong

I’m not your typical angry guy. I’m not the guy prone to cut and flip you off on the freeway. I’m not the guy you see hurling curses at CALPIRG recruiters or turning into a human steam engine the second Starbucks m...

May 1, 2013

Boobies, Booze and Batman: 3 Little Words That Make Men Melt

By E. Nasty

If you want to make your man happy, there is a deceptively simple three-part plan that is guaranteed to work one hundred percent of the time: show up naked, bring beer and put on “Batman.” I’m sure that I sound pla...

April 30, 2013

Grammar Be Good, But Only Rock Stars Sell Their English

By Ben Moss

I’m not sure you can call what I do “journalism”; I’m just not sure it makes the journalistic cut. That said, there’s just no other heading for it, so if I can do so without bringing out any real journalists’...

April 29, 2013

The Nutrition Edition: Because You Are What You Eat

By Betsy Reynolds-Malear

  Are bananas the worst fruit in terms of health value? There is no such thing as a bad fruit. Bananas are fabulous! It all depends on how you define worst, which in turn depends on what nutrients you personally wan...

April 26, 2013

Student and Mother Calls for Affordable Childcare at UCSB

By Zhike Liu

I am a master’s degree student at UCSB. I have a 2-year-old son who is in the White Door of the Orfalea Family Children’s Center. Recently, I heard that the university is going to cancel the daycare fee for stude...

April 26, 2013

Left Said Tackles Divestment

By Michael Dean

Some will remember the commotion a few weeks back surrounding a resolution proposed to our student government that would have the university divest from American companies who profit from internationally recognized human...

April 25, 2013

Voices on Voting: Student Backs TBL, Independent Media

By Michael Kenney

We as students face a continuing uphill battle to protect our rights to information even though we attend a public institution. Whether it be information about increasing student fees, cuts to classes, cuts to administra...

April 25, 2013

So Wrong, It’s Right

By Mark Strong

    What is “politically incorrect”? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself for a while. With 18 articles claiming the title, you’d think I’d have figured it out by now. But the question is actua...

April 25, 2013

The Nexus Responds: We Appreciate You, But Times Are Tough

By Opinion Editor

We at the Nexus would first and foremost like to reiterate our support of the Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, including all of the associated groups mentioned in the above letter. To the passionate and inspi...

April 25, 2013

A.S. Officers Band Together, Back Foronda as President

By Multiple Authors

During every election cycle at UCSB, students are inundated with an immense amount of information. While standing in support of healthy dialogue as a learning process, we as the 2012-13 A.S. Executive Officers have decid...

April 25, 2013

WGSE, Striving for “More Than ‘Adequacy’”

By Multiple Authors

We, A.S. Womyn’s Commission, A.S. Queer Commission, End Fake Clinics, Take Back the Night, Voices for Planned Parenthood and The Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, are extremely frustrated and disappointed wi...

April 24, 2013

Gents, Tame Your Man-Mane… And Let Your Inner Lion Find His Roar

By Hayley E.

My doves, my pets, hello. I return to you with a righteous crusade at hand. I dream a dream of perfectly mowed, or at the very least nicely trimmed, meadows in the pants of men everywhere. Yes, you young rapscallions, yo...

April 23, 2013

The Art and Science of Moving Lecture Along

By Ben Moss

I think there should be a course on lecture hall etiquette but, unfortunately, no such thing exists. That’s why, this week, I’m going to use my status as a columnist to denounce what I consider the most common and ir...

April 23, 2013

With the Nexus’ Lock-In Fee Renewal Coming Up, We Just Have To Say…

By Staff Report

Among the various candidates and measures on this year’s Associated Students ballot, you will notice that the Daily Nexus is up for a biennial reaffirmation of its quarterly student lock-in fee. With the exorbitant cos...