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Imagine the Day When Boobies Rule the Earth

I couldn't help (being a sex columnist) stepping back and being struck by exactly what this maypole represents - nothing more than a big, gigantic penis. It's just a big, old symbol of a male-dominate...
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It Affects Me: Part 5: Awareness Eases the Pain

I haven't talked to Eva; she hasn't contacted me since I left the pamphlets on rape and counseling on her bed. I've gone to more meetings, and I've started to swing by the Women's Center to help out.
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When It Comes to Test Taking, We All Need Secret Identities

Should finals and midterms be anonymous? I think they should. Since coming here in September, I have heard others saying that perhaps they got a worse mark than they deserved because the professor did...
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Benefits From a Parking Fee Hike Worth the Chump Change

After reading some of the complaints about the new increase in parking fees, I have to question if people understand why they are raising the fees.
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Home Schooling

To wit, anytime an undergraduate gets cited for a misdemeanor involving alcohol or an illegal drug, the university is going to send a letter home to his or her parents.
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Weather: It’s Not a Virus, It’s Free Porno

The dirty Melissa Virus infected Nexus computers for about a week. It scrambled Word documents and had the potential to send porno to everyone who communicates with the Nexus via email. We didn’...
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Living Without Vowels: Shut Your Mouth and Let Me Speak

You can agree that Attias did what he did. But God help you if you're not out chanting for blood. If you should mention that Attias doesn't deserve to die, kiss a pound of your pink flesh goodbye.
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A.S. It Is: Nasty Tactics Give A.S. the Tough Lovin’ It Sorely Needs

Leave it to the Nexus to misrepresent the goings-on at Legislative Council and to contradict itself in its editorial ("Clowning Around," May 3).
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Increase in Parking Fees Will Create Unsafe Conditions for All Students

I'm very disappointed in our school after hearing about a new policy to begin charging students to park on campus during weekend and night hours.
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Thanks to Isla Vista Residents for Not Making Fools of Themselves

Please convey our thanks to all the people on Sabado Tarde last Friday during the jury visit. The respect they showed the jurors and the memory of the students killed and injured was unmistakable.
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I May Be A Lame Duck, But Now Everyone Else Is Too

The events of last Wednesday's Associated Students Legislative Council meeting illustrate what I already knew but what many got their first lesson in: how to play hardball politics.
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Weather: Sic Semper Tirannus!

My house was invaded by a spy in the form of a small dog.
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Nexus Should Criticize Defense’s Delivery and Not Its Content

What they say is true. In Isla Vista, there are burning couches, keg beer and whatnot. Here is a sampling of whatnot‚ compiled by the Daily Nexus:
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The Sports Fee Failure Means the Death of UCSB. Yeah, Right.

I could not agree more with Jennifer Rudy's assessment of the A.S. elections (The Reader's Voice, "UCSB Students Dropped the Prestigious Ball During Elections," May 2, 2002, Daily Nexus).
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Clowning Around

Out-going Gauchoholic Leggies at Wednesday night's Leg Council provided more fun for Daily Nexus reporters than a massive clown orgy, it was also an act of pure spite and bad form.
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