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Definition of ‘the’ Is the Complicated

How much do you know about the word the? Unlike some words, like "banana" or "schooner" the is a confounding word because it lacks an equivalent in the real world. It's not like a the is a species of ...
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Anisq’ Oyo’ Park Is a Stage for Isla Vista Community

Welcome to the unknown government. They take our property tax money and spend it on boondoggle cookie-cutter projects like the proposed redevelopment of Anisq' Oyo' Park. Meet the redevelopment agency...
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Distinguished UCSB Should Expand Its Wi-Fi Networks

U.S. News and World Report's guide, "America's Best Colleges," recently ranked UCSB as the #13 public university in the nation. I believe UCSB did not make it into the top 10 because the university ma...
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Conquest Did Not Break Laws in Evicting Residents

Monday's piece by Karla Rosa against the practices of Cedarwood/Coronado/Conquest ("A.S.-Nexus Feud Draws Attention Away from Cedarwood" Daily Nexus, Jan. 29) highlighted the error in the protesters' ...
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Nexus Protects Freedom of Speech for Every Opinion

I can remember the first letter to the editor I wrote to the UCSB Daily Nexus way back in November of 1993. Soon thereafter, I would be asked to submit columns, which I have happily done up to this da...
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I.V. Resident’s Faith, Health Restored by Student’s Call

I wish to express my thanks and appreciation to the young woman who called 9-1-1 for me last Wednesday afternoon near the bus circle. My life was saved by last-resort methods onboard the ambulance.
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Our Little Film Festival

Wow! Helen Mirren? Will Smith? Borat? What an amazing week and a half we Santa Barbarians have ahead of us.
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Comedians Should Run for Office

In 1978, the Pail and Shovel Party ran for student government at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on a platform of corruption - and they won. Jim Mallon, a founding member of the party, explained...
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Nexus Staff Members Must Improve Paper

I am still recovering from the brutal town hall meeting to discuss the Nexus" that - while accomplishing nothing at all - might have sent you home with the feeling that you have done your good deed of...
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Smoking From Hookah Is Just as Deadly as Cigarettes

As I aimlessly ambled the streets of Isla Vista, stumbling into apartment after apartment, hoping to find a place to live last year, I noticed one thing: Every single home had a hookah. And I'm not ex...
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A.S.-Nexus Feud Draws Attention Away from Cedarwood

The bullshit antagonism between the Nexus and A.S. is taking the attention off of the real issue this feud erupted from: The Cedarwood - now Coronado - evictions and the families that have lost their ...
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Comparison Made at MCC Screening is Over the Top

The evening of Wednesday, Jan. 24, I attended a screening of the film "Channels of Rage" at the MultiCultural Center Theater. This film is a documentary about the Israeli hip hop superstar Subliminal ...
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Criticisms of iPhone Hinge on Falsities, Unlikely Facts

This is in response to Matt Suedkamp's iPhone review ("Apple's iPhone Is Not All It Is Cracked Up To Be," Daily Nexus, Jan. 23). Like most of his columns, this one hinges on a number of speculative po...
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Nexus Should Focus on Integrity, Representation

I want to commend our elected Associated Students Legislative Council for taking a stance against the Daily Nexus. By proposing and later retracting their proposal to freeze the Nexus' funds, they sho...
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