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Welcome to UCSB! Now How About Writing Us An Opinion Column, Smarty-Pants?

August 30, 2006 by Staff Editorial

We need to have a serious talk, and no, it can't wait until after you're done reading the sex column in the bathroom. So, please, put that thing away.
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Weather

August 30, 2006 by The Weatherhuman

YAAAWN *Smacks Lips* What the? Who the hell are you?
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He Said, She Said: Car Vs. No Car

August 30, 2006 by Aria Miran

It's likely that incoming freshmen reading this have many questions about UCSB. How do I get to my classes? Will I get laid on the first night? Should I bring my car to school?
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He Said, She Said: Car Vs. No Car

August 30, 2006 by Kaitlin Pike

Sit down, my child. It's time we had a talk about your popularity.
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Hey, Gauchos, Um, Wanna Do It?

August 30, 2006 by Jenny Paradise

No more lying to your parents about where you spent Friday night. No more switching back clocks to extend curfews. No more mandatory class before eight.
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Forget About Flavor and Follow Booze Clues

August 30, 2006 by Mark Batalla

See if you can find what's wrong with this picture: Twenty people are crowded inside a small, black-lit room with Paris Hilton's newest single bumping on an iBook's meager speaker system.
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Get Neighborly in I.V.

June 28, 2006 by Jenny Paradise

After much experience, I have come to the conclusion that hooking up with your neighbors, or at least with some new blood, is vital to the fresh-start feeling of summer in I.V.
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Summer At Home Pales in Comparison to I.V. Living

June 28, 2006 by Nicki Arnold

As much as I love them, summers are a horrible idea. They break routine so much so that sometimes I forget how to write when I come back to school.
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Clever Fox News Sneaks Its Way Into Hen House of Trust

June 28, 2006 by Laura Holt

Fox News is far from trustworthy as I see it. It is an open espousal of right-wing politics, which threatens accuracy, credibility and historical understandings of current events.
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Summer School Student Copes With Divorce From Vacation

June 28, 2006 by Zach Phillips

In many ways, expecting students to endure classes in the summer, or asking a child to remain happy after a painful divorce, is tantamount to forcing a crack addict to quit crack cold turkey.
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Faculty Botches Tuition

June 1, 2006 by Nick Durnhofer

Recently, the UCSB Faculty Legislature made a resolution, which if passed, could ultimately force university students to financially assist nonresident graduate students with their tuition. On May 11,...
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So Long, Farewell

June 1, 2006 by

This year's last issue of the Nexus is currently in your hands/on your desk/rolled up to...
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Leave It All in I.V.

June 1, 2006 by Tiffany Peal

With graduation rapidly approaching, departing seniors across campus and around Isla Vista are lamenting all the things they will lose come June.
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When It Comes to the Big Decisions, If the Rainbow Show Fits, Wear It

June 1, 2006 by Mollie Vandor

The sun is shining, the weather is clear and the Bob Marley references are already flowing like a nice, cold beer on a hot summer day.
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Readers Should Remain Skeptical of the News They Read, Press Makes Mistake

June 1, 2006 by Heather Buchheim

I was extremely disappointed after reading Elana Wenocur's column ("Iran's Wristbands Are Reminiscent of Nazi Germany," Daily Nexus, May 24, 2006).
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