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Alumn Pleads: “Mark Massari, tear down that sign!”

On behalf of the tens of thousands of UCSB students who transformed our Campus Events Center into one of the loudest, most raucous places to watch a college basketball game in the mid ’80s through t...
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Sit Back, Open Your Mind and Spread Your Legs for the Sex Talk Your Parents Didn’t Give You

Hello my lovely new readers, I’m going to skip all of the intro nonsense and get right to it: This is the Wednesday Hump, so let’s talk about sex. But let’s divest our talk of sex from the very ...
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Expensive Upkeep: Why Keeping UCSB Postcard Perfect Comes at a Price for Gauchos

Hard to miss after three weeks away from campus is the great expanse of sky newly unobstructed after the removal of a number of trees from the perimeter of the library. Soon to replace them and presen...
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(Left Said) Abortion: When Does Life Begin And Who Decides That? Why This Debate Matters

I’ll start by saying that I personally feel that abortion, when resorted to for the wrong reasons, is an immoral and selfish practice. In my own case, as is true for many people, the popular rationa...
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(Right Said) Abortion: When Does Life Begin And Who Decides That? Why This Debate Matters

Year after year, heart disease and cancer consistently rank as the top two causes of death in our country, accounting for around 1.2 million deaths or around 50 percent of all deaths per year alone. O...
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To the Lady Elephant: Think Before You Trumpet

The Lady Elephant’s article published Friday, Nov. 30 reminded me of an important truth: Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but that does not mean all opinions are created equal. Let’s start with...
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New Year, New Questions for the Docs: Advice on Eating Right and Avoiding the Flu

1. Coffee is a necessity for me, especially when school gets into full swing. Are there healthier alternatives for that much-needed energy boost and is it OK that I indulge my caffeine fix daily? It d...
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Follow the Silkroad… To Get Your Drugs and Guns at the End of This Cyperspace Rainbow

Among the Internet’s giant e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay exists a relatively unknown and secretive marketplace called Silkroad, which operates in a hidden corner of the web. In many ways, Si...
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Anatomy of an Opinion: The Nexus Welcomes Its Newest Online Column

I was immeasurably thrilled when I was given the opportunity to start writing opinion for the Nexus regularly. It was something I did in high school, and now I suppose I’ve been called up to AAA (I...
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Grab 2013 By the Balls! The Sexual Musts to Make 2013 Bangin’

Hello my nubile Nexus readers! I hope you were all sufficiently sloshed on New Years. As I shamefully wasted an opportunity to make countless “Santa’s sack” jokes for the Christmas holiday, and ...
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If In 2012 You Didn’t Succeed, Resolve, Resolve (and Fail) Again

I don’t have a New Year’s resolution. To most people, this implies one of two things: Either my life is so chock-full of love, happiness and fulfillment that I couldn’t imagine it getting any be...
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Left Said: The Right To Bear Arms: Are America’s Gun Laws To Blame for Recent Gun Violence?

As the rapper Kool A.D. says, it’s hard to answer the question of guns. Firearms, while deeply ingrained in America’s collective consciousness, are deadly, and in the style of self-fulfilling prop...
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Right Said: The Right To Bear Arms: Are America’s Gun Laws To Blame for Recent Gun Violence?

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” —Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution  ...
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Policing 2013 Fashion: The Sergeant Says Cuffs and Orange Jumpsuits Are Out

It’s hard to believe it’s already 2013! Fall Quarter is over, Halloween is a past memory, Christmas is over and New Year’s Eve is now just a fond remembrance. Sadly, I can’t recall exactly wha...
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Student Crossword Enthusiast Has 99 Problems and They’re All Down or Across

There are a concerned and heretofore voiceless set of students on campus whom on behalf of which I intend to write you. We are the students showing up early to lecture halls, the bus stop waiters, the...
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