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Daily Nexus Official Endorsements 2010

October 25, 2010 by Daily Nexus Staff

The Daily Nexus editorial board has closely scrutinized measures and propositions to provide our readership with voting choices that can begin to heal our ailing economy and lead to social an...
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Marathon Running Takes First Place in To-Do List

October 25, 2010 by Adam W. Bloom

Have you created a list by now? Those things you want to accomplish by the time you are 30, 50 or 100 years old? I like to keep some things written down that remind me of the goals I’ve developed ov...
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Daily Nexus Editorial Staff Yields Cautious Endorsements

October 21, 2010 by Daily Nexus Staff

The Daily Nexus editorial board has closely scrutinized potential candidates, measures and propositions to provide our readership with voting choices that can begin to heal our ailing economy and lead...
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Prudent Freshman Avoids On-Campus Eye Contact

October 21, 2010 by Danielle Cizek

As a new freshman I have learned many things in my first month of college.
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CHO Offers Helpful Tips to Avoid Halloween Hell

October 21, 2010 by Maya Salmon

The Community Housing Office (CHO) is no stranger to the fact that Isla Vista and Halloween are virtually synonymous.
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Former Editor Returns to Liberate UCSB’s Libido

October 20, 2010 by S.F.

Modern sexuality as we know and enjoy it is the result of — nay, an evolving process rooted in — a long history of repression.
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Measure S Drains Private Capital

October 19, 2010 by Benjamin Parish

California keeps falling more and more into debt, from the UC to pensions, and now prisons. Our state has consistently refused to live within its means.
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Measure S Secures Civil Rights

October 19, 2010 by David Urzua

Measure S is a local ballot measure that allocates state funding as well as a half-percent sales tax to build a new jail facility in Santa Maria.
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Prop 19 Puts the Pipe (and the Power) in Your Hands

October 18, 2010 by Kevin W. McCarty

ATTENTION: If you have changed houses since your last time voting, you must re-register today, or else it might be your fault if weed doesn’t become legal in two weeks.
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Nexus’ Conservative Bias Botches Election Article

October 18, 2010 by Geoffrey Bell

Wednesday’s front-page article, “SB Clubs Render Election Info,” was unquestionably biased and quite simply a poor piece of journalism.
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Mr. O’Reilly Has Finally Gone Too Far

October 18, 2010 by Nicholas Dineen

Bill O’Reilly. The man’s name alone stirs up a medley of emotional responses among many people: hatred, admiration, frustration, fear, gratitude and more.
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Arts and Lectures Events Make for Lasting and Unique Memories

October 18, 2010 by Adam W. Bloom

When the lights came on in Campbell Hall that night, I remember thinking, “You have got to be kidding!”
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I Met Her at a Club

October 18, 2010 by The Weatherhuman

According to Urban Dictionary, Toot it and Boot it can mean two things:
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Four Chic Trends of Autumn Wear

October 15, 2010 by Claire Wei

Thanks to Mother Nature, Santa Barbara weather has stabilized to chilly fall temperatures… which means, dear readers, time to dust off those luxurious coats and tough boots!
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Isla Vista: Party Capital of the World

October 15, 2010 by Chris Benham

There is something special about those first few weeks of school, when 20,000 of our nation’s finest get compressed into this magical square mile we call home.
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