Opinion

April 5, 2013

New “CAUCUS” Group Focuses on Unity between UC/CSU/CC Students, Aims for Empowerment

By Sam Swift

  The three tiers of education in California have acted independently of one another since their very creation. Every CC, CSU, and UC has had their own slate of issues laid down and divided by the state’s board of...

April 4, 2013

Forums, Chat Rooms and Renegade Comments Sections: The ‘Wild Wild West’ of the Digital Age

By Mark Strong

Faggot isn’t what your mother might call a “dinner table word.” For most social purposes, it’s been restricted to the metaphorical basement. You wouldn’t, for instance, use it to address a professor or TA, to g...

April 4, 2013

Forums, Chat Rooms and Renegade Comments Sections: The ‘Wild Wild West’ of the Digital Age

By Mark Strong

Faggot isn’t what your mother might call a “dinner table word.” For most social purposes, it’s been restricted to the metaphorical basement. You wouldn’t, for instance, use it to address a professor or TA, to g...

April 3, 2013

Quel Your Horn With Porn: The Merits of Spending Some “Me Time” in Cyberspace

By Hayley E.

To begin, I like porn. I watch porn. As your dedicated Humptress, it is my duty to divulge this to you. You may now sigh in relief. You are now either more holy than I and abstain or one of my brethren. What a cozy atmos...

April 2, 2013

Right Said: Gay or Not, Marriage Is Already in the Dog House

By Jeffrey Robin

When I arrived in our nation’s capital for my time at UCDC this week, I had the opportunity to witness and photograph protesters outside the Supreme Court rallying in support of overturning the Defense of Marriage Act....

April 2, 2013

Left Said: Love of Liberty Clashes With Love of “Traditional” Families

By Michael Dean

It simply goes without saying that in a liberal democracy, two individuals of the opposite sex have a political right to marry one another before the state. The conversation on “marriage equality” ends there, though ...

April 1, 2013

Dear Abby

By Dear Abby

Dear Abby, I came to college expecting freedom. Instead I landed an overbearing roommate whom I will affectionately refer to as “Big Momma.” When my momma hen is in the Coop (i.e. our double room), her clucking is in...

April 1, 2013

Sgt. Signa Straddles the Junction Between Memory Lane and Memory Loss

By Mark Signa

A version of this article appeared on page 8 of the April 1, 2013 print edition of the Daily Nexus.

March 8, 2013

Pill Your Way to An ‘A’? Because Study Buddies Come in All Shapes and Sizes … Like Small and Oblong

By Michael Roe

As the insurmountable academic stress known as dead week and finals looms like a menacing black cloud above Davidson Library, the student body of UCSB will find themselves in a time management conundrum which seems to st...

March 8, 2013

North Korea: Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are

By Ben Moss

You have probably already heard that about a month ago former Massachusetts senator John Kerry took office in President Obama’s cabinet, beginning his service as U.S. Secretary of State. Since assuming office, Kerry ha...

March 7, 2013

Identity Crisis Much? Obama’s Dubious Doppelgänger

By Mark Strong

Remember that radical socialist you always hear conservatives complaining about in the news? That tyrannical despot hell-bent on political reform and the redistribution of wealth amongst the masses? He died on Tuesday in...

March 6, 2013

K.Perry Got It Right: Kiss a Girl, You’ll (Probably) Like It

By Hayley E.

We’ve all been there: It’s a party, everyone’s hammered and the girls are getting extra flirty. Suddenly, there, among the filth of the fiesta, shines a vision. Angelic vocals reach a crescendo. All who witness are...

March 5, 2013

Cyberspace Classrooms and E-Professors: One Laptop Learner Considers the Merits and Downfalls of Online Classes

By Matt Conway

UCSB has recently begun to experiment with teaching online classes. Many parts of the traditional face-to-face lecture class work well online, but some do not. Knowing the difference between when the web works and when i...

March 5, 2013

Right Said: Giving Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act the Boot

By Jeffrey M. Robin

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case of Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder. The case concerns Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which stipulates that particular area...

March 4, 2013

Opana, Alcohol and Adderall: More Reasons Why Prescription Meds and Booze Make a Fatal Cocktail

By Edwin Feliciano

Q:     One of my friends was drinking at a party and took a drug called “Opana” and almost died.  What is that, and why does it seem so dangerous? A: Your friend is very lucky.  He/She could have been another...

March 1, 2013

Globalization: The Boogeyman Whose Chills Only Run Skin Deep

By Ben Moss

The present and future of the world is global. So we’ve been told repeatedly, in a variety of ways, in a number of different contexts. It is a recurrent theme in our education at UCSB and its discussion is amply encour...