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Roommateships with BFFs

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for romantic relationships. Community Housing Office (CHO) is going to take this time to address some of those other wonderful relationships in your life- your friends! ...
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Gauchos Fall to USC on the Road

If the UCSB women’s basketball team could find a way to score, it would be a very dangerous team. Offensive inconsistency once again killed the Gauchos, who lost to USC 50-39 in a nonconference matc...
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Road Trip Up North

The following is the first Online Nexus Sports Blog, from Christian Peterson, senior forward on the UCSB men’s basketball team. This past weekend was our longest road trip of the year and, for m...
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The Greatest Nation on Earth

If you were to measure the greatness of a nation by the extent to which corporate interests have infiltrated its politics, the number of people who die each year of curable diseases, the lack of any r...
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A Look at Harrison Weber

“You got hit by a car?” I asked in shock. “Yeah,” he replied, “it’s how I got my fourth concussion.” Harrison Weber is a fourth-year history of public policy major at UCSB and a native o...
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Finding Zion in Libya

As I watched a streaming video of 56-year-old David Gerbi hack away at a wall of brick and mortar surrounding his childhood synagogue in Tripoli, Libya, I couldn’t help but facepalm. To me, his tear...
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Winter Chills Bring About New Fashion Oppurtunities

Winter is fast approaching, men. With winter comes that cold fog in the air, quite unlike the typical sunny and lightly breezy fare that is Santa Barbara. Now, let’s not invest in a generic sweatshi...
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An Education

Lynn Barber demonstrates life can provide the greatest instruction in her 2009 memoir An Education. The 2010 film adaptation emphasizes the scandalous love affair Barber had during her youth with a ma...
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Greece: A Porn Fallacy

Tsk, tsk. Heracles would be ashamed. Greece has come a damn long way since the days of Aristophanes and men flying through the air on chariots (that’s what the ancient Greeks did, right?). Really, m...
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