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Beer Columnist, Don’t Write About Beer

Sean Swaby, this is the final straw. Something has to be said. Over and over I have read your articles in the Opinion section about your "debaucherous nights in I.V.," your ideas about the different w...
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Left Lane Driver: Twirling Toward Freedom

At long last, my California adventure is over, and I didn't even get to go to the shitty theme park. I remember the day I arrived here like it was yesterday. I was a tall, lanky Asian kid from the Mid...
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Wanna Sublease?

Everyone needs a subleaser right now, it seems. Well, me too! That
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UC Researchers To Strike To Protect Quality

This Thursday, May 26, thousands of research and technical staff at the University of California will go on strike. We do this with great regret, but we feel we must strike in order to protect the res...
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To Bike or Not To Bike Should Not Be the Question

On Bike to Work Day, CSOs were impounding bicycles at 9:30 a.m. in front of the Biology II Building. Students felt that their bicycles were unfairly impounded and complained. Based on the accounts and...
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UC Sets Bad Example In Deal With Los Alamos National Laboratory

This summer, the University of California will team up with Bechtel Corporation, a controversial global engineering and construction firm, in a bid to renew its 62-year-old managerial contract with Lo...
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Everyone Needs a Hero

Everyone has an idol. In my case, from a career point of view at least, I look up to Nexite alums Josh Elliott and Chris Ballard, who both graced the Nexus office in the early '90s, only to become two...
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Only You Can Prevent…

PSA: Couch burning season is coming up. In late spring, the couches of I.V. become hot and dry, overgrown with flammable material.
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Save Your Ride, Join The Bike Impound Revolution

Protect your bike from being impounded! On Wednesday I biked to work at Bio II, at the corner of UCen and Lagoon roads. On my way back out of the building, I went to unlock my bike. It was gone.
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Bedhead Diaries: Loving the Legal Life

You spend your entire life waiting for it. Screw the bar mitzvah. Fuck graduation. The single milestone of life that actually matters hit me two weeks ago - and the difference between life then and li...
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Or Not

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Congratulations to a Model Team in UCSB Athletics

To men's lacrosse coach, Mike Allan: UCSB lacrosse is a club sport and that represents the purest sense of amateur athleticism. Rather than focusing on deficiencies in the program, your student athlet...
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Take on Tantric Touching

Well kids, only two columns left. The last handful of weeks have gone by with an alarming acceleration, the sort of time travel that is only conceivable after spending weekend upon fucking weekend enj...
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It Hurts to Look at

I don't know if there's something in the water or what, but it seems like a lot of weird stuff has been going down. Or I guess it's probably just me.
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Unfair Blame Cast Upon Rec Sports

This letter is in response to Aston Lim's opinion column, ("Why Must Rec Sports Punk a Truly 'Model' Club Program?" Daily Nexus, May 13). I want to start by thanking Lim for his enthusiasm for rowing ...
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