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She Said: Valentine’s Day is A Good Excuse for Chocolates and Sex

Ah, Valentine's Day. The sing-song-sweet sound of the romantic celebration's moniker drizzles down lovers' spines like chocolate on strawberries. Of all the holidays in the year, this one makes for th...
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Illegal Downloading Helps Up and Coming Musicians

Illegal downloading is pretty sweet. This movement to stop people from enjoying music is a joke. A lot of people are being too greedy to realize that if it wasn't for these "illegal" downloads many ba...
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He Said: Valentine’s Celebrations are Nothing But a Waste of Time

Simply put: Valentine's Day is the biggest sham since "Alf" was cancelled. Complete bullshit.
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Polish Up Black Politics

Kanye West doesn't care about black people. Neither does anyone in the Democratic Party, not even the black ones. For decades, Democrats have been pandering to black voters without delivering much in ...
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Don’t Trust Your Instincts

The 'human knows you love the Nexus and all, but for the love of the weathergod, watch where you're going when walking and reading. The 'human feels like its trying to navigate the Death Star trench w...
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If You Can

Cupid shot me with an arrow last night. It was a poisonous arrow, meaning it filled my head with visions of the 1980s hair band Poison. Whenever I close my eyes, I see bad blonde perms and hordes of s...
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Following Sex-tiquette

Sex etiquette is a tricky thing. What one person allows to slide, another will chastise ruthlessly. But because it is my job to write about sex every week and my word is law, I have compiled a general...
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Get the door, it’s free

Stop the presses! Free pizza's are being given out at Dominos!
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Author Misrepresents Women in Graphic Fantasy Writing

After a few minutes of casual chatting with my roommate once I had come home from work, she dropped into the conversation that the Opinion article of the Daily Nexus was particularly racy that day. My...
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I.V. Foot Patrol Should Follow the Golden Rule

It seems like almost everyone in Isla Vista has a story of how and why their citation or arrest was unjust. I've heard talk of the various "bad" cops, and have received two traffic violations myself; ...
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Ignore the Neo-Fascist Cult

As your Associated Students internal vice president, I'd like to share a few opinions with you. "Jazz was foisted on black Americans by the same oligarchy which had run the U.S. slave trade, with the ...
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Lunch on me

A box in nicolletti's is offering free lunch to anyone who makes a worthy suggestion for improvement in the U-Cen.
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Demonic Panda Expresses All You Need

My hands wouldn't stop shaking. My mind wouldn't stop whirling. I would have done anything at that moment to fill the hunger rumbling against the walls of my stomach - well, anything that happened to ...
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Gaucho Rolls the Dice

I've recently started playing the classic board game Monopoly again. I was struck by an idea: The Monopoly board is a fitting metaphor for my time here at Santa Barbara. There are four sides on the bo...
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Nexus Crosses First Amendment Line in Column

Editor, Daily Nexus, If “Zone Out to Illicit Lust” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 6) by Ericka Koyama was supposed to be a joke, your readers didn’t get it. For one, it was not, in any way, funn...
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