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Daily Nexus Presents Proposition Endorsements

Proposition 30: yes This ballot initiative provides the students of the University of California system the long-awaited break from continuous tuition hikes they have endured and fiercely campaigned a...
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Stupid is as Stupid Does: Mourning the Death of Irony

It’s not often that I criticize total strangers. Most of the time, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe that “asshole” on the 101 was driving 90 miles an hour because he just got...
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Can You Justify Atheism Without a Scientific Understanding of the Origin of the Universe?

Topics like the formation of the universe are always contentious because there isn’t a universally accepted theory, and they can’t all be right. For that reason, it isn’t a bad thing when someon...
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Putting The “O!” in Oral: Ladies Never Spit And Gents Never Quit

My dearest Gauchos, today we will be discussing the do’s and don’ts of oral sex. Now, I have qualms with both my XXs and my XYs regarding your respective oral habits, and this may result in being ...
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The Affirmative Action Debate: Leveling the Playing Field For Future Generations

Left Said: Each of us can attest to the absurdity of college applications. We spend four years pursuing the highest possible GPA, taking Advanced Placement classes, playing sports, joining clubs, volu...
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The Affirmative Action Debate: Moving Us Away From A Colorblind Meritocracy?

Right Said: Imagine for me, if you would, the following scenario: you go to an average public high school, take an absurd amount of Advanced Placement classes, attend night classes at a community coll...
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MCC Council Urges Students to Strive for a More ‘Inclusive Campus Climate’

“Acts of intolerance, disrespect, bullying, or violence, especially regarding sexual orientation, race, gender, religion, or ethnicity, compromise our sense of community, our feelings of personal we...
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Echos From Last Week: Are You Registered? Are You Registered? Are YOU Regist….?

I am having nightmares of hidden registrars. I am at the urinal in downstairs Girvetz; they ambush me with a reminder of the Oct. 22 registration deadline. Other times, I am in line for Subway, and af...
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Votes on Tokes: Presidential Candidates’ Stances on Drug Policy

With the approaching Presidential election in two weeks, I decided to devote this issue to the Presidential candidates and their assorted approaches on drug policy. After three debates between Preside...
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Elected A.S. Member Expresses Concern Regarding Student Fund Allocations

I am not sure how many students are aware of this issue at our school, but in my humble opinion, given the history, there needs to be attention called to this. In Spring Quarter 2012, The Bottom Line ...
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The Self-Appointed World Police Force: Re-evaluating America’s ‘Big Stick’ Foreign Policy

We’ve heard a lot in these last three Presidential Debates about foreign policy. Whether it’s our continued military presence in Afghanistan, the recent attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi or I...
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Romney, Obama and Trees: Environmentalism for the Next Four Years

Four debates — three presidential and one vice-presidential — and climate change has not been mentioned once. During their debates the closest the presidential candidates got to addressing the cat...
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Just Short of Naked: Halloween Costumes That Work Your Assets

As Halloween approaches, I find myself wondering what wonders the October holiday has in store for me. Will I relive freshman year, when a downpour melted the “costumes” off of a group of Isla Vis...
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For Golly’s Sake! When Words Turn to Sticks and Stones

Q: Is it acceptable to prohibit blasphemy in consideration of public safety?   Happy belated International Blasphemy Rights Day! Recent events have made this quasi-holiday associated with Septemb...
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Halloween Weekend in IV: Sgt. Signa’s Survival Guide to the Upcoming Out-of-Towner Apocalypse

It’s Halloween already here at UCSB! It seems like we just started the school year a month ago and it’s already that time for the annual hunt through the local thrift stores for the greatest in 19...
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