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Muslims Should Not Classify Themselves

When author and lecturer David Horowitz appeared at UCSB, he mentioned that our Muslim students had not condemned Hamas and Hezbollah, implying that this told us something about our Muslim students. H...
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Publish Me

Alright, here’s the dea,l fans: Every few years, the ‘human gets cocky and attempts to make and then sell the Weatherreader, a mind-blowing compilation of subtle racism, sexism, ageism and...
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Participants Fail to Ask Valid Questions

Last week David Horowitz came to speak on campus to discuss the threat of a radical movement happening in the world and its threat to Western culture. The majority of the people that attended the spee...
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Shows Fall Short, Come Finale Time

On Thursday nights, I love to lovingly refer to my Opinion editors as "winos." Not because they complain about me, but rather because of their classy red and white choices, when it comes to getting ti...
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Schwarzenegger Breaks His Promise to Californians

"Our systems are at the breaking point now. We need more roads, more hospitals, more schools, more nurses, more teachers, more police, more fire, more water, more energy, more ports... more, more, mor...
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Senior Says Sayonara to SB Stuff

So, this is it. Graduation is in four weeks. By the end of June, most of us seniors will have left sunny Santa Barbara and Isla Vista will become a fondly tucked-away memory.
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Weather in Chief

Bullshit. That's what I call the Editor in Chief elections.
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I.V. Streets Deserve Additional Leafy Eats

Remember when it was awesome at 2 a.m. to be hungry and to be in Isla Vista as a freshman? Yeah, me neither. OK, that's a lie.
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Bush Swings and Misses with Anti-Golf Plan

Growing economic woes and a looming recession have become the focal point of public concern. Yet, for thousands of young Americans and their families, another issue clocks in as the most important: th...
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You’ll Never Take Me Alive

It’s Nexus turnover time – and not the good kind with apples. Every spring, you see all the beaten-down editors head for graduation – or more likely rehab – and a new batch of ...
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Offended Faculty Member Regrets Outburst at Event

Editor, Daily Nexus, The Nexus on Tuesday accurately described my reaction to David Horowitz’s characterization of a Palestinian “scarf” as “terrorist headscarf,” (“...
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Recent Slurs Show Lack of Sophistication at University

Editor, Daily Nexus, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. It seems that less than half a century after Dr. King gave his life in dedic...
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