Controversy
UCSB students have sometimes reacted strongly to the Nexus' content. Student minority groups have marched in protest of the paper more than once. In 2000, the Filipino students' union picketed the paper in reaction to a joke in an April Fool's article regarding a fictional bombing of the Philippines.
In early 2005, UCSB's Black Student Union also marched in protest after the paper featured two front-page photos of a black man being arrested for allegedly raping a student in her dorm room. The incident was only one in a series of clashes between the paper and minority students at UCSB that date back to 1974, during which student Murvin Glass sued the Nexus and its editor-in-chief, Jim Minow. Glass claimed that the Nexus had printed an editorial cartoon that insinuated that he had stolen copies of the paper. Glass won the suit in 1979.
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