Opinion
Two columns recently appeared defending the UC's management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory: "A Constructive Coalition" from Joshua Zide, (Daily Nexus, Oct. 18) and "UC a Better Candidate than B...
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I attended Thursday's lecture by Ilan Pappe (an event from the Center for Middle East Studies) and I am dismayed and disgusted that an academic department at my university would bring this self-procla...
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This letter is in response to Allison Cross's letter ("Minors Unfit to Decide if Abortion is Best Option," Daily Nexus, Oct. 27). I do not think that anyone would disagree with the point that a minor ...
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I should have realized that our Vegas trip was doomed when I referred to Siegfried and Roy as Sigmund and Freud while driving into town. I know what Dr. Freud would say about this Freudian slip. He'd ...
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Only one more issue until Halloween weekend. If you're worried about it raining, don't worry.
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Today, students across the country are engaging in efforts to make our universities and society more equitable. It is because of National Take Affirmative Action Day, sponsored by the United States St...
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Halloween is almost upon us once again. As I begin to bar my doors against the onslaught of drunkenness and debauchery surely to ensue this coming weekend, I find myself thinking about what you, my p...
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I've wanted to write to the Nexus for a long time, but have always procrastinated the thought into oblivion. I have a problem finishing, and I think you are the solution, Nina. Your first column detai...
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This letter is in reply to Courtney Weaver's article ("Proposition 73 Endangers Women," Daily Nexus, Oct. 25). Many women have abortions to rid themselves of a problem. I am in complete agreement with...
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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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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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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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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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"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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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
