Opinion
The plan for the rest of my life is due at the end of the quarter and I've been procrastinating rather badly on it. I mean, I've barely touched the thing and there's the deadline, hovering all big and...
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In her January 17 column, Maria Reifel Saltzberg ("Radical Activist Stirs Rights Debate," Daily Nexus) defends the racist, violent and extremely hateful views of Ward Churchill - even invoking the nam...
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Again, we are blaming the victim. Kendra Payne, a young bicyclist and UCSB triathlete, was on a morning ride up Gibraltar Road, when she was killed by an asphalt truck attempting to pass her.
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In 1944, Polish lawyer Raphel Lemkin, in response to the Holocaust that took the lives of 49 family members, coined the term genocide to describe a crime against humanity so horrific that it needed it...
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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day yesterday, I slept in until 4 p.m. and had many dreams.
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Whenever I remind my parents that they were hippies, they like to tell me that they were too political to be hippies. I'm not sure if I really believe that hippies aren't political, but they did show ...
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Hurricane Katrina showed us a lot, not only in terms of destruction, but the inefficiencies of the human species as a whole. Many of these inefficiencies came compliments of those in charge and at the...
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Welcome back. It's been quiet around here for the last few weeks and now that everyone is back from break, it's time to let the fun begin again!
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It's been a very merry Christmas for the UC Regents. On Dec. 21, the limited liability corporation they formed with Bechtel, BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) and Washington Group International was awarded...
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Yesterday was a sad day. Sidney Frank, inventor of Grey Goose Vodka, died yesterday at the age of 85.
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In response to Heather Buchheim's article, "The Straw That Broke the Elephant's Back," (Daily Nexus. Jan. 11) it is gratifying to see some well-deserved criticism of the Congressional Republicans' sha...
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I use Yahoo! for my e-mail, which means messages that are identified by the system as "spam" are automatically ignored and placed into a bulk e-mail folder. I had assumed that this folder was full of ...
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The only thing I miss about high school is the suspensions. Remember how exciting it was when you or somebody you knew was suspended for the day and the whole school was ablaze in gossip.
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The bulk of you have spent the past few weeks vegetating at the parents' place, enjoying late December's reprieve from busywork and dead-end employment while wedging in a few holidays as well. Kwanzaa...
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The holidays are neat, but there was one thing I noticed this season that I never took note of before. Screaming. Everywhere. Hundreds of children screaming and crying everywhere I went.
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CSOs at the frats
Barefooter anywhere but 68 block
Senior at De La Guerra Dining Commons
Sober on a Lime scooter
A condom in a frat house
A condom in a frat house
Electronic dance music at 9 a.m.
The sun during June gloom
Your ex at thanksgiving dinner
A black bear in South Hall
Chancellor Yang at Sunday Funday
Surfer at their 8 a.m.
