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Relationship Guru Advocates Talking For Healthy Sex

Sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko discussed the importance of respect and communication in sexual relationships during a lecture yesterday in the UCSB Loma Pelona Center. The event, titled “How to be a Gentleman and Get Laid: Navigating consent, sexual freedom, partying, dating, relationships, and what it means to be [...]

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UCensation Festival Offers Free Food, Live Music Today

The University Center, Associated Students Program Board and Ice Skating Club are teaming up to host the first annual UCensation springtime concert and festival at the Lagoon Lawn. The free event will kick off at noon and will feature a live performance by Isla Vista-based funk band The Fire Department, [...]

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‘Gatsby’ Weighed Down by Big Baz Mistakes

Let’s face it: The Great Gatsby was the one book that we all actually read in high school from beginning to end — even the slackers and math and science nerds were not immune to its spell. Over the last century, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about inaccessible ideals and the [...]

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‘Reel Loud’ 2013 Promises Great Entertainment

The 22nd Reel Loud Film Festival will take over Campbell Hall on Friday May 24. If you’re wondering what Reel Loud is, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the last two quarters, as posters and events advertising the festival’s theme, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” have been all over the [...]

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When Becoming the Issue Becomes the Issue

I was digging into a new novel on the patio outside Nicoletti’s a few weeks back when a single word in a nearby conversation caught my attention: divestment. The pair — a guy and girl, both college-aged and bespectacled, sipping coffee and picking at muffins — was sitting directly behind [...]