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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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Putting Our Inner Hipster Aside, Coming to Terms With Bieber Fever

April 12, 2012 by

Have you ever woken up one morning and realized you’re the hipster? My friends talk about how they hate the self-involved hypocrisy of these types of folks. But every day I feel like more and more o...
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Don’t Base Your Desires on the Gender Binary: Go For What Gets You Off

April 11, 2012 by

Nation. People. Literate UCSB students. I come before you today to offer a study that will revolutionize science. Its elegance, infallibility, and pure genius will force the Nobel committee to establi...
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The Unconstitutionality of Obamacare and the President’s Inappropriate Response

April 10, 2012 by

When the Founding Fathers established this great nation, they did so in the name of one principal concept: individual liberty guaranteed by a divine creator. Our Constitution, the “Supreme Law” of...
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“Health Care Is a Human Right That Should Be Kept Affordable and Accessible”

April 10, 2012 by

It’s finally upon us: the court case of the decade. Not since Bush v. Gore (2000) has a Supreme Court case garnered such widespread coverage and clout before a decision has even been passed — alth...
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Banishing the No- Prefix Once and For All: Alternatives to Next Year’s Floatopia

April 10, 2012 by

Another year has gone by, and once again Floatopia was successfully banned. That’s three years now, which in my opinion is pretty damn depressing. As a third-year student, I got here just in time fo...
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Lessons on Skepticism, Learned From a Life of Magic

April 10, 2012 by

Growing up, I believed a lot of ridiculous things. For example, I convinced myself that the force was real for a while after watching “Star Wars” — the movie, obviously, was exaggerated, but the...
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“If You Can’t Bribe a Politician, You Can Now Just Buy One”

April 9, 2012 by

Money is flooding into political elections at an unprecedented rate, giving an enormous amount of influence to wealthy interests in our country. For decades special interest groups have spent millions...
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There’s No Denying Invisible Children’s Success in Spreading the Word on Kony

April 9, 2012 by

As everyone has heard by now, the viral marketing campaign KONY 2012, made by the nonprofit company Invisible Children, has recently come under intense scrutiny in the media. Most coverage of the mass...
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“I’m just a normal guy. So don’t be scared.”

April 6, 2012 by

Hey man, why you looking so nervous?   I know you’re not used to seeing guys with skin like mine anywhere other than on ESPN or in the news for some crime. But don’t be scared, homie; I’m n...
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