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V-Day Party Fun Includes Risque Acts

So over the holiday break, my dad got my mom one of those VHS-to-DVD recorders. We were watching old home videos of me riding my tricycle, picking on my little sister and running around the house nake...
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Research Required Before Student Passes Judgment

I would like to take this chance to both educate the UCSB community and blast Larri Gregg and her cohorts for spreading simplistic and inaccurate views ("Unexpected Campus Missile Projects Shock Stude...
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Unfair Accusations Bestowed Upon Raytheon and UC Labs

Larri Gregg's editorial last week ("Unexpected Campus Missile Projects Shock Student," Daily Nexus, Feb. 8) unfairly groups all defense projects together as "weapons" and as tools of George Bush's pol...
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Partisan Strife To Undo Democrats

The Democrats sure have an interesting plan to bring about change in America. With the primaries more than halfway complete, now is the time when candidates should gear up to put their party's stronge...
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Bush, Dick and the Hummer

Look I'm not going to get in the way of today's planned protest, but I want to make this very, very clear: Stay the hell away from the 217 this year.
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Online Survey Offers Readers Free Swag

Art Hoppe, the late star columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote decades of satire renowned by readers of that venerable paper for its wit and spot-on insight.
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Think!


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Campus Clans Thrive in Cyberspace

Back in the day, when we were 11 or 12 - you may not have even hit the double-digits yet - we pre-pubescent techies discovered the virtual world of America Online. Because we hadn't experienced real I...
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What Part of the Chicken is the Popcorn?

Those morons at PETA have done it again, this time fighting congressional legislation that would make fried chicken the official picnic food of Kentucky. See what I did there, three of the last eight ...
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Reevaluate Reasons for Protesting Iraq

On Feb. 15th, 2007, I participated in an event that I will never forget. Thousands of UCSB students joined me on a march to the 217 freeway in a protest against the war in Iraq. I was one of those peo...
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Think


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Mind, Body & Soul: Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word

The average college student sleeps about seven hours per night, while the typical requirement for adults is eight hours per night. Obviously, everybody knows the atypical person who functions just fin...
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Wednesday Stumped

I usually try not to crack on fellow Nexites, but I can’t help but take offense with the latest “Wednesday Hump.” If you’re writing about attractive presidential candidates, yo...
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Globalized Economy Benefits Americans

People are always asking me, "Jordan, what's globalization about? How will it affect me? Will I be outsourced?"
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Decrease in Violence Proves Nothing

If you were so "fortunate" as to see George Bush's final State of the Union address or you've been "lucky" enough to have caught bits of Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz. recent campaign speeches, you are w...
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