Opinion
"Because our future economic well-being is so dependent upon education ... we can no longer afford to cut higher education." Those words were spoken by Gov. Schwarzenegger last week during his annual ...
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No Child Left Behind, proposed by George W. Bush at the outset of his presidency, introduced "standards-based education reform" to school systems throughout the nation. The irony, of course, is that t...
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It is time that the NBA gets real. In the eyes of the NBA, it is okay to make millions off of its athletes. It is okay to sell its name and its street-ball game to the world. It is okay to blare rap m...
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Have you ever had someone pass you a note that said, "Your stupid"?
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I sometimes find myself meandering through the library, browsing books, leafing through magazines, making sure to avoid the masturbators on the fifth floor, you know, the usual stuff.
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Each time Christmas break ends, I feel more tired of the holiday. As a kid, I thought Christmas was great: Heavy Tahoe snow, tons of presents and rare family visitations made it a pretty magical time ...
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Political Columnists Miss the Mark in Terror Debate Your “Left Said/Right Said” excels in offering the disappointing shallowness that college newspapers are so predictably famous for. I...
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The new year is upon us, and what does that mean? A million annoying top-10 lists from 2009! Holy mother of a Buick, does anyone really care what the top 10 flavors of pistachios were in 2009? Or does...
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"Have a little faith in me." Okay, who said this and why? I've heard the song and everything, but I don't get it.
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As the weeks went by last quarter, I continually heard numerous students, faculty members and random protestors complain that the UC is crushing their ability to get an education. "How can they just ...
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I use my phone a lot. And not just for communication. I use it to know what the time is, I use it for entertainment, I even use it so people don't come up to me when I'm walking around campus and ask ...
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When my English professor asked our class what we did over Winter Break, I kept my mouth shut. I wasn't prepared to inform 38 strangers that I spent my vacation investigating Santa Barbara's sexual de...
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Unlike the show of unity in the political environment following September 11, conservatives, out of power and desperate for a line of attack that will actually stick against President Obama, have unle...
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Everything shower every day
Has an extensive tote bag collection but never brings one to Trader Joe’s
Reusing condoms
Collecting tears to water their plants
Asking to shower together to “save water”
Air conditioning and electric blanket running simultaneously
Has gone from Temu to SHEIN for bikini purchases
Fracking
On their 10th flight out of Santa Barbara Airport this month
Owns seven Stanley cups
Wrote their environmental ethics essay with ChatGPT
Vegan contributing to Big Almond
