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Opinion

Girls Gone Wild: Opinion Ladies Bust Out of UCSB

As a senior on the precipice of graduation, I’ve done a lot of things I never imagined I would do. I completed the Great American Challenge and dated a frat star. I embraced the I.V. hippie-grunge and became Opinion Editor of my school newspaper. Each year I surprise myself. Believe [...]

Opinion / Wednesday Hump

Thrusting to the Finish: Seniors Knock Boots Before Riding Into the Sunset

It’s that time of the year again. June gloom slowly creeps up, with the calendar bitching at you to get your life together while your hands desperately shove tequila shots down your throat in an attempt to shut your brain off and slow the clock down for just a few [...]

Letters to the Editor / Opinion

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 Doreen Farr and, dissatisfied with such an outcome, spent the next three years [...]

Respect Your Elders: Keep the Legacy Alive (Beneath the Sheets and Beyond)
Opinion / Wednesday Hump

Respect Your Elders: Keep the Legacy Alive (Beneath the Sheets and Beyond)

Alumni Weekend came as quickly as an undersexed 35-year-old with a full-time cubicle job as soon as he spots something fertile. Like a dark, ominous cloud — holding not refreshing showers, but a disturbing concoction of flat keg beer and alumni semen — it hovered over I.V., raining down upon [...]

Sex Position of the Week
Opinion / Wednesday Hump

Where to Turn When BROing and HOing Have Lost Their Appeal

Most unfortunately, in order to speak of this next topic, I will have to address something fetid and repulsive. I’m going to talk about an aspect of intercourse that is often lost, forgotten, feared, denied and even despised. It is a form of sex so unnatural and uncomfortable that at [...]