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40 Ounces to Competition

October 9, 2008 by Derek Mead

With parties, kickbacks, shindigs, cocktail hours and box socials going on seven nights a week in I.V., it's pathetically easy to string together an epic bender of intervention-worthy proportions, and...
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If You Don’t Want to Vote, Don’t

October 9, 2008 by Jesse Reynolds

Every four years we have this wonderful thing called the Presidential Election. A time to dust off the old biases, dig a deep trench and tell the other side how wrong they are. This is a time I love, ...
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Gaviota Coast Needs Saving

October 9, 2008 by Quentin Gee

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is preparing to vote Monday, Oct. 13 on whether or not to save Naples from the private gated community of more than 70 mansions that an Orange County deve...
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Putting Scary Halloween Rumors to Rest

October 9, 2008 by Mark Signa

Halloween is coming fast and, depending on your point of view, it’s the greatest thing for students at UCSB since the discovery that Google can actually be used for researching assignments and n...
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Lick Up Seductive Lingerie

October 8, 2008 by Jenni Perez

We all have sexual pet peeves. I'd like to share one of mine with a charming little anecdote. It was well into a school night before an 8 a.m. class. I had barely stepped into my frumpiest PJs when my...
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Obama Gives America a High

October 8, 2008 by Jordan Pokross

If there's one thing that nobody's talked about this election cycle, it's weed.
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Health Care Is An Issue of Ethics, Not of Profits

October 8, 2008 by Marc Duquette

In response to Mr. Bannigan's assertion that Sen. John McCain's competition-based health care plan will benefit our country ("Best of Health Care Result of Healthy Competition" Daily Nexus, Oct. 6): A...
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Prop 2 Protects Animals, Decreases Toxins Consumed

October 8, 2008 by Andrew Dunn

I am writing in support of Carly Jo Hann's article endorsing Prop. 2 ("Proposition 2: Protect That Which You Eat," Daily Nexus, Oct. 7). Hann clearly explains the central goal of the measure: to reduc...
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He Said, She Said: Freshmen: Friends or Foes?

October 8, 2008 by Elliott Rosenfeld

Saturday morning, when a lonely freshman girl wandered into my kitchen on a whim to introduce herself and complain about the dozens of water balloons that have struck her since move-in, I decided that...
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He Said, She Said: Freshmen: Friends or Foes?

October 8, 2008 by Kristen Ferrell

All right, granted, watching the unfortunate exploits of the blacked-out freshmen gallivanting around Del Playa Drive provides a certain degree of amusement for us upperclassmen. Their antics take me ...
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Word of the Moment

October 7, 2008 by Staff

Bong Rips Cure Cancer?

October 7, 2008 by Alex Hoffman

You read that right, my sleepy-eyed stoners. Cannabis CURES cancer. Okay, that is a bit of propaganda wrapped up in overstatement. But guess what? It is our turn to spread the real propaganda of ganja...
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Cartoons are my anti-drug

October 7, 2008 by Staff

Do you ever go to sleep hoping you'll wake up inside that mind-bending, McDonald's-funded anti-drug film, starring every goddamn cartoon character that's ever graced the silver screen? You know, the o...
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Proposition 2: Protect That Which You Eat

October 7, 2008 by Carly Jo Hann

Elections are just around the corner and you’ve probably made up your mind about a number of the issues after seeing the debates, watching the commercials and listening to both sides. I have a s...
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This November, The Vote Is On

October 7, 2008 by Eric Tomczak

It’s that time again, where once every four years our elected officials do us, their constituency, a great favor. They allow us to vote! While the importance of voting cannot be over-stressed (y...
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