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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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Think

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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Think

January 16, 2007 by Staff

Hypocritical A.S. Reps Use Student Body as Piggy Bank

January 16, 2007 by Antony Mascovich

I tend to follow the news at UCSB regularly. Since my UCSB diploma has afforded me the opportunity to have gainful employment, I now pay an abhorrent amount in taxes to the state of California.
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A.S. Boycott of Nexus Is A Counterproductive Reaction

January 16, 2007 by Stephanie Tavares

As a UCSB alumna, a journalist and a former Nexite, I was disgusted upon hearing that members of the Associated Students Legislative Council were calling for a boycott of the Daily Nexus ("A.S. Mulls ...
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Blatant Plagiarism of Joke Is Inexcusable, Not Funny

January 16, 2007 by Alexander Fishwick

I would like to submit this as a response to Ray Collins's drinking column ("Mexican Partying Is Worth the Trip, Hombre," Daily Nexus, Jan. 10). He blatantly ripped of the material of one of my favori...
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Student Fees Are Wasted on Nonsensical Events

January 16, 2007 by Charles Webb

Anyone who attended UCSB last quarter probably remembers the A.S. Students' Initiative. At the time, we were told that the fee increases outlined were entirely necessary. Even at the time, however, it...
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Freedom Territory: Iraq Left With Dubious Leadership Hussein’s Execution Raises Questions

January 12, 2007 by Eric Hedlund

Usually the victors write the history books, but in the case of Saddam Hussein's execution, his is recorded by video footage. The moving picture camera is the whirring scribe of our time - a mechanica...
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