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Finding Your Sexual Neverland

I am so excited for Halloween. When I was a wee lass, Halloween was always the ultimate holiday. Sure, Thanksgiving was all about turkey, with Christmas came gifts, and New Year's was always the holid...
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Oppression

Two words: mint spermicide.
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I Think, Therefore I Am Liberal

Greetings, Nexus readers. I'm flattered that you're taking time out of your shitty anthro class to read my article. I'm your new political columnist, reporting from the Enlightened States of America. ...
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Long-time I.V. Resident Trick-or-Treats Down Memory Lane

Here it is, just around the corner. Halloween, Isla Vista, 2005. So much has changed about Halloween in this town since I first got here that I think some clarification needs to be made. To begin with...
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Grab the Responsibility Wheel Before It’s Too Late

We made it through the first month of school. But four students who came to UCSB with goals and dreams, just like every single one of us, are now dead. I have a sinking feeling in my stomach just thin...
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I.V. Takes Shot of Sobriety

"Hey man, hurry the fuck up," some ass-monkey yells at me. I hear a well-placed kick on the door of my Port O Potty. Upon exiting, I didn't feel I owed the man my extended explanation that I had waite...
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Phat Al

I don't know if you saw or not, but a hero of the 'human's was tragically hurled onto his bum yesterday by Hurricane Wilma. Al Roker, who most of us know as Phat Al, put his life in danger and went to...
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Proposition 73 Endangers Women

Remember all that talk last spring about the governor calling a special election? Well, it's coming up on Nov. 8 and I'd bet a parking spot on DP most of you haven't given much thought to it. It hasn'...
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Benefits Outweigh Costs of Keeping Soldiers in Iraq

Here's a question for you: rounded to the nearest kilo, how many troops have died in Iraq? Two thousand, as we all know. Here's another: How many more hours of electricity does the average Iraqi home ...
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If You Think IV Cops are Bad, You’re a Pussy

Jeff Gibson's column "Corruption Lifts the Lorax" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 21) really took me back to my high school years. It also made me think, "Geez dude, grow the fuck up." Gibson writes about growing ...
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Fuel Efficency Exemptions Do Not Include SUVs

This letter is in regards to Joel Aurora's article ("Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence" Daily Nexus, Oct. 24). Mr. Aurora implies the fuel efficiency exemption for all vehicles over ...
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Teaching Them Their Own Game

I first started going to Chumash Casino in 1997. At the time, the laws were different in California about how these casinos operate. The casinos were not allowed to keep player losses. Instead, they e...
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Sue Happy

So apparently the House of Representatives passed a
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Go Shake “Old Man Snoring” Awake

Sometime between my semi-annual bike accident and my customary run-in with Pirate at I.V. Market, I got to thinking about unavoidable repetition. I've been at UCSB for a few years now and though I've ...
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Bush Administration Steals the Cake of Incompetence

If you've followed American politics, even loosely since George W. Bush, stole office in early 2001, you would have realized a few common themes that separate this administration from the other more c...
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