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Students’ Inelastic Demand Helps Textbook Prices Soar

Aside from attending class, what pains college students more than spending money? Unfortunately, our lifestyles tend to demand it with some frequency, often resulting in cash hemorrhages that severely...
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Leave Your Fashion Sins Behind You in America’s Playground

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas due to the fact that there is usually a lot of alcohol consumed - at any given time through out the day - which leads to some fantastic and sometimes embarrassing ...
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Lean Back and Climax

Stress. It's something that will be present all our lives, as we continue on to grad school or jobs, as we attempt to rear a family, as we try to make a little niche for ourselves somewhere out there ...
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Shitty Weather

One day after enduring countless diatribes towards the 'human for it's untimely rain, yesterday's weather-like movements were not much different.
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Stray From the Flock With Rosaritos

I feel so weak. You see, last night I gave in - I succumbed to my very own personal boycott. I had successfully boycotted Freebirds for over eight months. I had decided to boycott them because, quite ...
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Politics Saturate Hollywood Thriller

My father and I share many pastimes: We like to get loaded, we like to argue and we like the cinema. Over Spring Break, we shared an important father-son bonding experience - getting kicked out of a z...
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Wet Tuesday

Apparently, everyone hated me yesterday. Why the masses of UCSB voiced their distaste for my offerings remains beyond the 'human's comprehension.
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House Tackles Immigration Issues

On Monday, March 27, 40,000 high school students staged a walkout across Southern California. It seemed that most reporters who covered the story touched on the idea that perhaps many of the students ...
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Measure D Punishes Public Transportation Users

If you are concerned about traffic, congestion, pollution and the future sustainability of Santa Barbara County, it's time to wake up. This week may be the most critical time for public transportation...
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Students Fly to DC to Discuss Iran and Hamas

Several students from the on-campus group, American Students for Israel (ASI), participated in a nation-wide American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., fro...
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Call to Recycle the Nexus To Help Save Some Trees

Like many students here at UCSB, I wake up each day bleary-eyed and groggy, rolling out of bed only to roll off to class. I hate my early morning lectures, but I get by. You might ask why. Well, becau...
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Avoid Clicker Futility

For anyone who has ever taken Econ 1 at UCSB, I'm confident they will agree that passing asteroid-sized kidney stones is preferable to ever taking the class again. Economics is perhaps one of the drie...
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Let There Be Light, Goddamnit!

What a tease the weather is. The day before spring quarter starts, it - the cardinal of all spring quarter sins - rains?
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Howland Haunts Athletic Director’s Coaching Choice

I'm sure glad UCSB Director of Athletics Gary Cunningham wasn't involved in the hiring of Herb Kroemer, David Gross, Finn Kydland or even Walter Kohn. Had he been, I'm certain those talented Nobel Pri...
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Right to Protest Funerals Lies Under First Amendment

I completely agreed with Camerin Smith's article "Phelps Dishonors Soldiers by Protesting Funerals" (Daily Nexus, March 8), right up until he said "I urge reasonable politicians, left or right, to pro...
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