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Brake for Slippery Sex

October 19, 2005 by Nina Anthony

Foreplay? Fore-PLEASE. If I run across one more kid who thinks it is proper etiquette to just stick it in, I'm going to scream. Why can't we be more like the French - a minimum of three orgasms before...
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Fortune Cookie Crooky

October 19, 2005 by

It's good to be the weatherhuman. Not only do you get to say whatever the hell you want to 20,000 people (well, let's be honest: 2,000,000 people), you get to be in control of the weather.
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Students Urged to Bring Out Their Vote

October 19, 2005 by Bill Shiebler

I recently read several articles about the involvement of students and student government in the statewide election. I want to comment on the efforts of UC students in this election and why it is so v...
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A Constructive Coalition

October 18, 2005 by Joshua Zide

Sylvia Frain's column, "UC Should Rethink Relationship with Los Alamos" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 14), demonstrates a staggering lack of knowledge about the lab and the University of California's role in man...
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So rude, hmph.

October 18, 2005 by

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day when I don't have beach plans you inconsiderate asshole of a meteorological system.
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Criticism of Stein Sophomoric

October 18, 2005 by Paul Jones

This letter is in response to Monday's letters "Ben Stein Confuses What It Means to Be an American" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17) and "Republicans Wasted Their Money Bringing Stein to SB" (Daily Nexus, Oct. ...
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Root of Isla Vista Evil Not Lost on darksideofUCSB.com

October 18, 2005 by James Baron

Right Rant, Wrong Rag? It would appear that Adam Graff may have submitted his diatribe entitled "It Takes an Isla Village" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 17), to the wrong paper. Adam's comments about rude driver...
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UC a Better Candidate than Big Business for Los Alamos

October 18, 2005 by Matt Gazulis

This letter is in response to the column written last Friday by Sylvia Frain titled "UC Should Rethink Relationship With Los Alamos" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 14). This well-written column touched on an issu...
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Isla Vista Apparently Not as Much of a Dump it Once Was

October 18, 2005 by Joshua A. Rodine

I returned to campus this weekend for the first time since 1997 (residence on the East Coast and in the Midwest having prevented an earlier homecoming). Having been a reader of the online version of t...
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It Takes an Isla Village

October 17, 2005 by Adam Graff

Yesterday I was driving on Camino Pescadero, when some crazy lady flew through a stop sign and made a left turn right in front of me. I missed her by a fraction of an inch. As I craned my head to scre...
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Eating Out of the Dumpster

October 17, 2005 by

You know what's fun? Eating-out jokes. For example, this weekend I ate-out at Anna's "Bakery," Sam's (To-Go), Woody's, Jack(s) (in the) Box, Javan's, Gio's and Gina's.
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Nexus Neglects Local Co-Op Markets

October 17, 2005 by Melissa Cohen

I'm writing this letter in response to Friday's article in the 3300 minutes section ("Discovering the Joys of Collegiate Cooking," Daily Nexus, Oct. 14). I commend you for choosing to feature an artic...
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Students With Disabilities Still Treated Inequitably

October 17, 2005 by Sam Marks CODA Chair

I'd like to thank the Nexus for printing letters in the last few weeks from students with disabilities on how they are succeeding at UCSB. As a student with both visible and invisible disabilities, I ...
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Ben Stein Confuses What it Means to be an American

October 17, 2005 by Matt Reed

I decided to go to the College Republicans' presentation of Ben Stein. He started his speech with a few jokes belittling Bush's intelligence, made some references to hashish and even threw in somethin...
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Republicans Wasted Their Money Brining Stein to SB

October 17, 2005 by Ted Coe KCSB Development Coordinator

My congratulations to the UCSB chapter of the College Republicans for spending some $15,000 to bring GOP comedian Ben Stein to campus ("Ben Stein To Speak About Recruiters at UCSB," Daily Nexus, Oct. ...
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