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Cool Off I.V., Heckling Just Goes Too Far

You're at a 10. We need you at like a 2. I had looked forward to the first weekend of the school year all summer. There's more beer than even we Gauchos know what to do with, and nubile, young freshme...
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Cycling Inability Leaves Freshman Blaming GOLD

An open letter to that girl I hit on my bike yesterday. My bad. Seriously, it probably sucked pretty hard to be you at like 8:45 a.m. yesterday, face down on the grass outside of FT with your backpack...
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Facebook Write-Ups Just Another Bogus UC Policy

Even though I am a graduate student, I was compelled to write in after reading your article, ("Facebookers To Face Write-Ups for Dorm Photos," Daily Nexus, Sept. 29). This new non-policy (it appears n...
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US News Coverage Lacking When Compared Abroad

I am writing in response to Katy Tur's article on the physical appearance of news reporters ("News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum's Report Card," Daily Nexus, Sept. 28). Personally, I am sick of Am...
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Lying Your Way Through Life

We all have hobbies. Some people fly kites. Some people read books. Some people eat a lot food and then intentionally puke it back up. Some people do all of the aforementioned things.
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Error’d

The 'human is drowning
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Investigating Meaning Within the Irrelevant Blog

I knew the blog had officially arrived when I decided to start one. Usually the last one on any bandwagon, I jumped on right after reading a New York Times journalist's blog about a frontline U.S. sol...
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I am Nina, Hear Me Roargasm

The first week of school is always the same - full of endless introductions and overviews. Professors know how warped our minds are from the summer sunshine, and most of them very gently and slowly ea...
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Dan Brown

So the 'human has hopped on the Da Vinci Code train. It's not quite as exciting as the trains I'm used to, but at least I'll be able to walk in the morning.
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Something Even the Mighty Bong Can’t Beat

It was Sunday morning, about 9:30 - the time when I'm usually hitting the halfway point of the best sleep I've managed to grab over the past week. The time when I should be dreaming of endless fields ...
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Housing Lottery Lacks Economic Sagacity

Every year, students apply for on-campus housing and parking. Busy praying that they'll be granted a place to sleep and a patch of asphalt where their car will be keyed less, they don't think twice ab...
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News on the Tube Scores Poorly on Alum’s Report Card

Having just graduated from college in June and having taken my first step into the working world, I have noticed a few things. I recently began a job at a news station in Los Angeles.
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Do I Know You From Somewhere?

Here we are, back in class, back in those uncomfortable desks, back to fighting to keep yourself awake during that post-lunch foray into your general education requirements. Just as inevitable as the ...
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Da-na-nah-na-nah-naaw-na

Remember that show back in the day? You know, the one with the agro crag and the inexplicably British referee? Yes, Guts. Or was it GUTS? Or was it SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION OF A RACIALLY DIVERSE GROUP O...
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the End of the World

When I think of the apocalypse, I first think of the sky. Whether it be frogs or stars or the sky itself, something will fall from it, I'm assured. In the past month, to me, the sky has shown itself t...
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