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Firestone Parks It Like It’s a Lot

May 24, 2005 by Sally Marois

Since the recent debate regarding military recruiters on campus, one thing has become obvious -- political activism is misguided. In this country, change is possible. On our campus, change is possible...
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A Capital Idea

May 24, 2005 by

Drat, here I was hoping for the filibuster "nuclear option" thing to play out. In case you didn't know what a filibuster is, or what the "nuclear option" is, it is when a senator speaks for so long th...
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Beer Columnist, Don’t Write About Beer

May 24, 2005 by Jonathan Morin

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

May 23, 2005 by Neil Visalvanich

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?

May 23, 2005 by

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

May 23, 2005 by Jelger Kalmijn

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

May 23, 2005 by Soumil Mehta

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

May 23, 2005 by Rebecca Huyck

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

May 20, 2005 by Sean Swaby

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…

May 20, 2005 by

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

May 20, 2005 by Emily Gogol

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

May 19, 2005 by Meghan Palma

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

May 19, 2005 by

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Congratulations to a Model Team in UCSB Athletics

May 19, 2005 by Paul Lee Dir. of RecCen Sports

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

May 18, 2005 by Dave Franzese

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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