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Student Recounts First Days Under House Arrest

Answer me this: What would you do for 52 days in Isla Vista if you had to live on terms forbidding you from leaving the house after 10 at night - if you were lucky - and reporting where you were 24 ho...
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Gaucho Remembers Denison With Love and Admiration

This past August, I moved into a house with three other girls I had never met. Wanting to make new friends as an entering transfer student at UCSB, I reluctantly answered a "roommate wanted" poster ta...
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Attack on Obama Devotees Sickens Recovering Neocon

You know, Zac Gates, your most recent column ("Good Sense Hinders Ability to Obamasm," Daily Nexus, Feb. 26) really takes me back to my freshman year. Conservative leanings, taking everything at face ...
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Dream Voyaging Affirms Existence So Hold Tight to Turtles in Flight

Time spent sleeping equals one-third. Time spent dreaming approaches infinity. Where would you be without infinity?
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“Julie Cooper’s Gonna Be Pissed…”

Color me unsurprised at the news that former television whorebag Mischa Barton was charged with four misdemeanors on Tuesday, including DUI and possession of marijuana.
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Gender Inequality in Society Spurs Rape

So perhaps some of you out there have seen these signs around campus: "It's Not Just A Women's Issue." These signs are designed to get men involved in the fight against sexual violence in our communi...
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Search for Ideal Obama Veep Begins

The once unambiguous underdog, Barack Obama is now the decisive frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. While Obama needs to focus all the time he has on winning delegates, it seems unfair to allow...
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Bicycle-Brained A.S. Irritates Proud Pedestrian

There comes a time in everyone's life when they decide to stand and face the injustice that surrounds them - or fall prey to the perniciousness at the core of humanity. In my life, I not only missed o...
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War Protesters Miss Message of Peace

Tonight at 5, a group of protesters from the Feb. 12 anti-war demonstration will approach the Associated Students Legislative Council in the Flying A Room in the UCen to discuss what they allege was t...
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Maybe the Dingo Ate Your Baby

There was an Australian guy standing behind me in line at Subway yesterday, and as I stood there debating the merits of ordering tuna at a fast food restaurant, I couldn't help but become extremely je...
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Study Hall Gives 50 Reasons To Drink

Spring Quarter is fast approaching, and I'm excited. I love springtime because everyone remembers how fun it is to be outside in the sun. Every day, the beach is filled with sun-kissed bodies and a fe...
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Texting Trumps Bedtime Booty Call

The other night, my roommates and I were sitting around, drinking wine and talking about standard girl stuff -- you know, saying mean things about girls we don't know just because they're pretty -- wh...
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A.S. Bike Path Improvements Depend on Students’ Input

This Tuesday and Wednesday mark the second UCSB Bike Gripe of the year, put on by Associated Students Bicycle Improvements Keep Everybody Safe, where students will have a great opportunity to alter th...
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Students Put Considerable Research Into ICB Protest

In attempting to portray the more than 500 protesters who partially shut down the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies annual conference on Tuesday, Feb. 12 as impulsive and confused, Scott A. ...
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