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The Great Divide Between X and Y

January 19, 2007 by The Weatherhuman

Who can discuss women's issues without covering weight? Women endlessly search for the easy solution to that last (or first) 15 pounds and spend about 2/3 of the day wondering how looking like a pig w...
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Freedom Territory: America’s Drug War Ignores State Rights

January 19, 2007 by Eric Hedlund

In a democracy, the individual must gain rights through solidarity and steadfastness. In every movement, there are setbacks and obstacles. On Wednesday night, Los Angeles got its stash stolen.
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Think

January 19, 2007 by Staff

Wikiasari Plans to Pass Up Google

January 18, 2007 by Robert Handley

In an attempt to represent a voice in today's young adult constituency, I would like to express my thoughts on the future of Wikiasari and, furthermore, on the innovation of Internet search engines.
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More Womyn

January 18, 2007 by The Weatherhuman

Third part in a series focusing on women’s issues: The wage gap. Women supposedly make 72 cents per dollar that a man makes. The problem with this statistic, supposedly, is that it doesn’t...
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Privacy Still Prevails for Pregnant Women

January 18, 2007 by Fran Linkin

January 22, 2007, marks the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and on behalf of VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, I would like to draw the community's attention to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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Ptsh, Womyn Part II

January 17, 2007 by The Weatherhuman

Today's lecture on women's issues, brought to you via the Weathermate's nagging, concerns equal slang for equal work
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Turn Your Shame Into Stride of Pride

January 17, 2007 by Jenny Paradise

"Shaaaaackerrr! Shacker, shacker, shacker, SHACKER!" Aside from launching water balloons - at willing participants, of course, thank you for that suggestion/threat I.V. Foot Patrol - the best part abo...
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Drinker’s Digest: Drinker’s Unite, Put Off Thy Natty Light

January 17, 2007 by Ray Collins

After the first week of the quarter has finally come to an end, some of you may already be sick of drinking the typical cheap alcoholic beverages that can be found all over Isla Vista.
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Passing Gas: UCSB Athletics Needs Overweight Players

January 17, 2007 by Zach Phillips

Without a football team our school spirit is crippled. Instead of raucous tailgates, we have Freebirds. Instead of a stadium seething with pride, we have a street -Del Playa Drive - seeping with grime...
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Rising Tuition Costs Assail Students’ Pockets, Wallets

January 17, 2007 by David Sforza

Everyone states that the media has a liberal bias, but I have yet to hear this bias on issues that matter to me - and I am sure to the rest of us. Several weeks before the November election, someone a...
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January 17, 2007 by Staff

Liberty Belle: Higher Education Fails to Pass Test

January 16, 2007 by Courtney Stevens

Higher Education in America has floated lazily down the river of complacency and emerged in a sea of mediocrity, where it is presently being pulled by a strong current of denial toward a steep waterfa...
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Ptsh, Womyn

January 16, 2007 by The Weatherhuman

The Weathermate and I had a lively debate last night. The 'mate contended that men uncomfortable discussing menstruation and saying words such as "tampon" do great disservice to women;
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Technology Bytes: A Little Bit of Technology Savvy Goes a Long Way

January 16, 2007 by Matt Suedkamp

Now that we are all in college, I think it is time that the majority of you got an education. Not the education where you sleep through class, playing sudoku and doing crosswords while the professor d...
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