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2012 Daily Nexus Candidate and Fee Endorsements

April 23, 2012 by

After bombarding the student body with cheesy signs, flyers, blue beer and a flurry of Facebook invites, A.S. Elections are finally upon us. “Budget,” “transparency” and “involvement” are ...
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Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From Venus

April 23, 2012 by

Earlier this month, science and politics journalist Chris Mooney came out with a new book entitled The Republican Brain, The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality, a book that is much more in...
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A.S. Election: High School Flashback

April 20, 2012 by

While volunteering at Spring Insight, I couldn’t help but notice the nomadic camp hovering over the Storke Tower bike roundabout. Assuming that the Pirate was finally commandeering the campus, I tho...
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Men’s Lacrosse Plans to ‘Light That Barn on Fire’

April 20, 2012 by

In 2006, the UC Santa Barbara Men’s Lacrosse team defeated the Chapman Panthers in a hard-fought overtime victory. The win added to their undefeated record versus the Orange County private universit...
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OPP, DP, B.O.S.S.: They’re All Just Arbitrary Acronyms to Me

April 20, 2012 by

Voting for UCSB’s annual Associated Students elections begins this Monday, and I still don’t know which party to vote for. I was going to vote for the party that put the large, obstructive signs i...
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I Never Tell a Lie, Except for Those Times When I Do

April 18, 2012 by

The average person tells seven lies a day. I’m not sure if I read that from a Snapple fact or if I just made that up. But anyway, I didn’t believe it at first, until I started listening to half th...
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Irresponsible Bureaucrats Expect Their Taxpayers to Pick Up the Tab

April 18, 2012 by

As it seems to be with almost every other “hot button” political issue of our time, a symbolic crescendo in the dispute over labor policy is quickly approaching. Less than two years after his init...
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Labor Unites Voters, Activists From All Sides of the Political Spectrum

April 18, 2012 by

Organized labor is a foundation upon which our society is built, and its efforts have led to some of the most critical reform of the last century in this country. It is the institution that allows wor...
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Congresswoman Capps Pledges Her Allegiance to Student Funding

April 17, 2012 by

Spring is in the air, and it’s a beautiful time to be on campus. As you’re settling into your final quarter of the school year, many of you are applying for summer internships and finalizing your ...
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Is She the Farr Better Candidate?

April 17, 2012 by

In 2008 Steve Pappas lost the 3rd District Supervisor seat to Doreen Farr by a slim margin. Disgruntled by the two-to-one majority that the student population of UCSB and Isla Vista gave to Farr, Papp...
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Man Uses Titanic in 3D as Last-Ditch Effort to Get Laid

April 17, 2012 by

On Saturday, April 7, local ladies’ man Brendan Marden bought tickets for himself and Jennifer Pollard for the newly re-released “Titanic” in 3D in an attempt to get laid. Marden, who had been ...
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Leverage Your Degree, Learn to Network

April 16, 2012 by and

As a UCSB student, you are going to graduate with a degree from an esteemed research university and will be able to get any job you want … or so you think. Many of us have all the qualifications nee...
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The Distinction Between Genuine Kindness and Excellent Acting

April 16, 2012 by

What is it about someone telling you to be nice that makes you want to punch them in the face? We’ve all been there — making fun of someone for something they did, hating a girl because she’s pr...
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Throw It Back to the Good Ol’ Days at Santa Ynez Mountains’ Natural Playground

April 15, 2012 by

March Madness, the Masters and Deltopia have all come and gone. Coachella is coming up, but it will pass too. With fleeting forms of entertainment coming and going, it’s assuring to know that we hav...
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What Do You Think About the Annual Customary Celebration of Easter?

April 12, 2012 by

As if singing songs, holding hands, and swallowing millennia-year-old dogma in the name of Christ’s gift of salvation every Sunday weren’t enough, Easter — the made-up day of Jesus’s cloud-mou...
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