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Go Shake “Old Man Snoring” Awake

October 24, 2005 by Bri Lafond

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

October 24, 2005 by Joel Aurora

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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If You Can’t Get the Joke, Hop Off the Hump

October 24, 2005 by Spencer Alcorn

As regards Brittany Madison's published objection to a phrase contained in Nina Love Anthony's Wednesday Hump (Reader's Voice: When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah, Daily Nexus, Oct. 21), ...
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Department Praised for its Addition of Catholic Courses

October 24, 2005 by Mark Sanborn

This letter is in regards to Shannon Lamb's article ("Religious Studies To Open Catholic Focus" Daily Nexus, Oct. 20). I have to say kudos to the Religious Studies Dept. on its creation of the Catholi...
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Corruption Lifts the Lorax

October 21, 2005 by Jeff Gibson

This goes out to the one I love. Growing up in a small town minutes east of Berkeley had its advantages. A quick hop aboard BART and my friends and I could find everything our sheltered little hearts ...
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Altering History

October 21, 2005 by

Halloween is fast approaching and the 'human still has no idea what it's going to be for Halloween. Conventional wisdom suggests the 'human will have the most unique, witty and hilarious costume out t...
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Review Your Rights in Time For Halloween

October 21, 2005 by Mark Signa

Over the last few weeks, I have been meeting students at the residence halls and dining commons and it has been a great reminder as to what my job is all about. Yeah, it's fun being a rootin'-tootin' ...
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Fighting Acts of Hate the Resident Assistants’ Way

October 21, 2005 by Debbie Fleming

This letter is in response to the article published Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Daily Nexus titled, "List of Local Hate-Free Places Excludes UCSB." UCSB was not recognized by the Anti-Defamation League b...
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When it Comes to Foreplay, Jews Light My Menorah

October 21, 2005 by Brittany Madison

I had to write a rebuttal to a certain line of Nina Love Anthony's most recent Wednesday Hump article "Brake for Slippery Sex" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 19). The article shines much needed light on a constan...
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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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