Opinion

Some shake The other night we were getting faded on the roof when my friend started talking about how he had broken his leg. He went into excruciating detail about the pain he felt and the sight of his twisted leg. While I’m sure he didn’t mean to, his story got me stressed and disturbed […]

Memory I watched Groundhog Day five times this past weekend. Like most exercises, it was an act of repetition. Groundhog Day tells the story of Phil Connors, a sarcastic TV weatherman who is mysteriously made to relive the same Feb. 2, again and again. He wakes that morning at 6 a.m. in a wintery Punxsutawney, […]

You’ve just gotten back from a massive house party, it’s 3:43 a.m., and you’re only now beginning to realize that you haven’t eaten since 3:43 p.m. Yeah, you drank massive amounts of alcohol on an empty stomach, but that can’t be helped at this point. At least you didn’t end up praying to the porcelain […]

Many people, especially liberals, still widely accept the view that we need minimum wage laws to provide the working poor with a fair wage. A minimum wage is a legally mandated price floor for labor — for instance, in California it is illegal to hire a worker for less than $8 an hour. On the […]

Jan. 18 reclaim UC @reclaimuc yudof, birgeneau, celaya… what about katehi? Jan. 20 Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack Preview of the kinds of football references I’ll be making during the next two weeks: “Just made myself a super bowl of cereal!” Jan. 23 Stephen Colbert ‏@StephenAtHome I believe Ayn Rand’s first love poem went: Roses are […]

As Winter Quarter midterms approach, so do the reminders of not having any idea of your living plans for the next school year. You are regretting spinning that wheel at The Buzz, because West Village just sent out its fifth email of the hour and shoved yet another frisbee in your face on the Quad. […]

By now, many of you are probably wondering when I’m going to start writing about the “really” sexy stuff. You know, the topics that will help you become a naughty sex kitten/super stud/overlord of all bedroom activities. To which I say, there can be no sex kitten (or sex anything else) without consent and protection. […]

Many students have no idea that they’re funding sports programs on this campus. Whether or not this is an appropriate allocation of student fees is a big topic of debate, but here’s something we’re pretty sure most can agree on: If students are funding sports, students should have a voice in how major decisions are […]

Alright, readers. I’m going to lay it out simply: this column is going to be about menstruation and alternatives to the conventional attitudes and methods of “dealing with” periods. Wait…did you just hear that? …hear what? The sound of uncomfortable readers all over campus hurriedly putting the paper down. Or perhaps, was it the sound […]

Last week, I explained why capitalist hierarchies are so adept at instilling the ideology of the elite class into the population. There are, as I said, a plethora of reasons for which we should find capitalism intolerable. The fact that it allows the information that shapes the society to be filtered through mechanisms that uphold […]

As if writing from a dusty pre-1970s economic textbook, the author [Tristan de Liège] acts as if Occupy never happened and as if Ayn Rand’s ideology has never been challenged. His lack of perspective and curiosity about conflicts within economic theory is truly disappointing, especially in a student paper. Restricting his discussion of monopolies to […]

Before a night out, I spend a lot more time in the shower. No, I’m not shampoo-rinse-repeating. I’m shaving. My complaint is nothing new — as far as I know, no woman actually enjoys the process of hair removal. Sometimes, it can be downright painful. Still, for all the laments about razor burn, ingrown hairs, […]