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Worst Buy Puts the Best Deals Online

One of the most exciting parts about being a geek is new hardware and new electronics to play with. Whether it be a new Nintendo DS with the built in Wi-Fi that lets me play Mario Kart with seven othe...
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Biking On Campus Proves to Be Perilous

I was recently in a bike accident, which resulted in my left knee having to be stitched back together. As a brief aside:
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Shoebat’s Autobiographical Speech About Radicals Alone

I must disagree with the letter you printed Friday ("Shoebat Paints Unflattering Portrait of World's Muslims," Daily Nexus, Feb. 9). That letter said that Shoebat had given a "negative, hateful messag...
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Neglected Holocaust History Touched Upon by Shoebat

I want to elaborate on a subject Walid Shoebat touched upon in his talk last Wednesday. Shoebat never made any blanket statements about all Muslims or "compared the Muslim community to Nazis" ("Shoeba...
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New Platitudes, Please

The best way to differentiate between those who critically think and those who read the back of the cereal box for its literary value is to ask the following:
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Menstrual Cycles Deserve Love, Too

In July, I ran with the bulls. Every summer, throngs of thrill-seekers and daring tourists travel to Pamplona, Spain to participate in the celebrated "running of the bulls," or Encierro. The runners k...
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YouTube Gives Idiots, Greats Shot at Fame

One: cut a hole in a box. Two: put your junk in the box. Three: make her open the box. And that's the way you do it - according to Justin Timberlake, anyway. These instructions for the perfect gift, w...
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Cheers to EAP Australia, Killer Bugs and All

The process of applying to EAP took about a year. I started in March of 2006 to complete loads of paperwork, raise my GPA, pay hidden fees and try to acquire as much information as possible about my u...
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Column, Letter Both Fail to Explain Reasoning of Strike

Ever since I saw those fliers around campus, I've been wondering how exactly a bunch of students skipping their classes has any connection to the war. When I saw a whole column about it in Friday's Ne...
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Letters Regarding Career Fair Are Misleading, False

Jonathan Clotworthy argued that asking individuals to boycott military tables is contradictory to an agenda of diversity ("Protesters Miss the Point of Fair With Their Demonstration," Daily Nexus, Feb...
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UCSB Athletic Director Apologizes for Rude Shirts

I am writing this open letter of apology on behalf of the UCSB Athletic Dept. in response to an incident that occurred last Saturday night in the Thunderdome. At our men's basketball game against Long...
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Middle East, Muslims and Plo Are Unfairly Presented

As a citizen of the Middle East, I am reminded daily of the Arabic saying, "Nothing in life is more stable than change itself." Unfortunately, the mentioned change is rarely a positive one. Today, I'v...
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Shoebat Omits Instances of Muslim Kindness, Tolerance

On Feb. 7, I was one of several hundred to go watch Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist and now Christian. In his hour and a half speech, he warned that the Middle East has the potential to be that ...
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Jenny Paradise Offers Some Sound Advice About Health

In response to last week's sex column ("The Wednesday Hump: Student Health Provides Valuable Services," Daily Nexus, Feb. 7), I would like to say, "Yay!" It's about time we got some health-oriented in...
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