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Summer of Love

It's official: Our parents sure did a lot of fucking in July and August.
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Fight for Sudan’s Rights

Often in U.S. history, college students have been ahead of governments in recognizing and fighting for important issues. In 1961, students launched a historic journey into the Deep South on the Freedo...
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TBTN Helps Empower Survivors

As you walk through campus this week, you may notice an addition to the landscape of green and turquoise campaign signs: five hundred purple posts, numbered one through 500, with the letters TBTN on t...
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Canadian Immigrants Taking Over White Collar U.S. Jobs

With all this talk about immigration and "closing the borders," I couldn't help but get to thinking. Maybe instead of closing our southern border, those ever wise and self-righteous men in Washington ...
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Honor Armenian Survival

This article is dedicated to the memory of the 1,500,000 Armenians who were martyred during the Turkish massacres, which culminated on April 24, 1915.
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Advantage: Human

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Pop Culture May Influence Future

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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