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Pop Culture May Influence Future

April 24, 2006 by Nick Pasto

It recently dawned on me that in the future, intellectuals will study Hollywood movies in the same way that they study old literature.
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U.S. Government Will Continue Poor Politics With Draft

April 24, 2006 by Mike Nally

The draft is coming. Last year in a Black Studies course I took Professor Madison had our class write those four words on our midterms to ensure our bluebooks were not written on prior to the exam.
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Condoms Are Not Just a Player’s Wanton Party Favors

April 24, 2006 by Cassie Chavez

Whenever I venture out and about in Isla Vista, I make sure to have a small supply of condoms on me.
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Save the Planet With Green Technology

April 21, 2006 by Scott Mac Kenzie

Next week, an initiative you will be voting on will position UCSB to become a national and even global leader towards sustainable design. The Green Initiative Fund will propel UCSB to the forefront of...
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The Great Burrito in the Sky

April 21, 2006 by

It's a shame the 'human has to comprise of a weatherbox on 420.
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Frazier Would Improve UCSB

April 21, 2006 by Pedro Lopez

I have had the great pleasure to have worked personally with Romy Frazier in our Neighborhood Hall Council and to have been her good friend for the last two years. When I found out that she decided to...
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OPP Offends Groups by Claiming To Be Involved

April 21, 2006 by Maria Saltzberg

Ah, spring time in Santa Barbara. I have come to love this time of year. With everyone spending more time outside and wanting to have fun, the beach lights up once more. After four years at this schoo...
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Author Calls for Support Fee for The MCC Lock-in Fee

April 21, 2006 by REBECCA PRATHER

As I walked through the doorway of the MultiCultural Center with my 10-day-old son last year to meet the radical poet and musician Saul Williams, I thought, "There is no place like this on campus."
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How Dare You

April 20, 2006 by

Ah, it finally feels like it's really spring quarter. Everyone is hungover on a Tuesday.
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Cast the Shadow Aside

April 20, 2006 by Adam Graff

I began this piece with daggers for the newspaper that you happen to be reading, but now that I have more information, I am writing to you to report a colossal fuck-up. Apparently, the version of the ...
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Legalization Would Give Tax Dollars for Justice

April 20, 2006 by Fiona Ramus

I am writing in response to the article entitled "IVFP Thwarts Robbery Attempt Over Weekend" (Daily Nexus, April 18). Allegedly, a group of three young men broke into the house holding it at gunpoint ...
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Elections Committee Falsely Accused of OPP Affiliation

April 20, 2006 by Maria Harutyunyan

As a member of the Campus Elections Committee, I was appalled to see flyers being distributed to students with the claim that our current staff members are also involved with the Open People's Party. ...
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It’s Time for a Quickie

April 19, 2006 by Nina Anthony

I often find myself with that obnoxiously brief stretch of time between classes. You know the gap: too short to go home, but too long to just sit around doing nothing.
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Fuck me? Fuck you!

April 19, 2006 by

So it was pointed out the other night at the office that a "Fuck the Nexus" group exists on the always "it's easier to say it on here than to say it to your face," facebook.
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Get Down With Your Student Government

April 19, 2006 by Ajay Deshpande and David Gate

Many of you may be wondering what the bright blue shirts reading "You Down With O.P.P.?" are all about. The people wearing these shirts are supporters of a student group that will alter the way studen...
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