Outside Opinions

Open Your Mind and Your Major: the Evolving Objectives of Higher Education

Take a second to think of all of your friends who are going through mid-college-life crises. Most of them have been to academic advising at least once this month and are on a first-name basis with the...
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Second Year Takes on the ‘Slut/Prude’ Binary: a Rebuttal to Last Week’s ‘Hump’

As I was reading Wednesday’s “Humpin’ Letter to the Editor,” I found that I quickly became incensed. Not simply because the words “skank” and “prude” always get my blood boiling, but a...
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As Conservatives Try to Silence Young Voters, Students Fear A Growing Trend

If you pass through the Arbor on your way to or from class, you may have seen the signs: “Please Don’t Take My Vote, Mr. Pappas.” In 2008, Steve Pappas lost the election for County Supervisor to...
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Prude to Crude: How One Freshman Found Her Inner Freak

Until college, I was the prude. The hot Asian prude, but nonetheless the prude. At my ironically slutty all-girls Catholic school, everyone tried to hide their obvious skankiness. And while my boyfrie...
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University Faculty Members Respond to Nexus’ ‘Least Useful Majors’ Report

To the editors of the Daily Nexus: We would like to take a minute and respond to the May 9 article entitled “UCSB’s Least Useful Majors.” The title of this article, as well as its reliance on po...
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Keeping Isla Vista Safe Means Demanding a Shift in Police Priorities

If you take a walk down Del Playa on any given Friday or Saturday, you will without a doubt see numerous people being cited for alcohol related “crimes,” surrounded by 4-5 police officers. While t...
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California’s New “End the Death Penalty” Initiative Proves Inherently Unjust

In the upcoming elections this year — the June primary and the November general — California citizens will have the chance to exercise their rather unique (and, in my opinion, rather silly) abilit...
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Seau’s Suicide Sheds Light on Necessity of Mental (Not Just Physical) Well-Being

In American culture, we often like to think of our favorite athletes as superheroes. The spectacular physical feats that professional athletes perform on a regular basis in front of excited crowds in ...
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Society Must Pursue Scientific Knowledge, “Yet Remain Healthily Skeptical”

In Nate Charest’s letter published on May 4, he claims that “science needs no champions.” Unfortunately, I disagree. In a world of willful ignorance and denial, scientific evidence and conclusio...
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Stealing: It Does More Damage Than You Think (And Not Just to Your Conscience) w

John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse James. Throughout history there have been countless figures that decided they were going to get rich quick by unlawful means. At some point we have all fantasiz...
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UCSB Student Recounts Night in Jail after BUI Arrest

The purpose of the Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Dept., according to their website, is to “utilize bike patrol and officers from the CHP and UCSB Police to provide safety and enforcement for the...
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Should Students Have a Say in Isla Vista Politics?

Remember when the Social Host Ordinance passed? Remember how infuriated everyone was? Did you feel helpless to change anything? The thing is, we’re not helpless at all. In fact, students have so muc...
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Sophia, Nadim, Betty, Lupe and Mac: The Democratic Choices for A.S.

On Tuesday, April 17, the members of Campus Democrats at UCSB officially endorsed Sophia Armen for Associated Students President, Nadim Houssain for External Vice President of Statewide Affairs, Betty...
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Worry About Tomorrow Tomorrow: “The Smoke Clears Down the Road”

As 4/20 revelers across Isla Vista celebrated Friday (and throughout the weekend), it was a good time to appreciate the special time and place we can enjoy here. And I’m not just talking about 4/20 ...
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A.S. Election: High School Flashback

While volunteering at Spring Insight, I couldn’t help but notice the nomadic camp hovering over the Storke Tower bike roundabout. Assuming that the Pirate was finally commandeering the campus, I tho...
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