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SURRENDER DOROTHY

April 12, 2005 by

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A.S. Election Endorsements: Internal Vice President

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Adam Graff once wrote an opinion column claiming the "honeymoon" between him and the Nexus was over. Oh Adam, we never stopped loving you. You're even cuter when you're mad. Passionate, articulate and...
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A.S. Election Endorsements: External Vice President, Local Affairs

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

From living in a Del Playa Drive apartment condemned for eviction to serving as a voting director on the Isla Vista Park and Recreation District, Kelly Burns is intimately involved in local affairs.
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A.S. Election Endorsements: External Vice President, Statewide Affairs

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Last year, Felicia Cruz told us she would take the train up to Sacramento, Calif. to save on A.S. travel expenses while representing UCSB students in statewide affairs. True to her word - and the Nexu...
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A.S. Fee Initiatives

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

In theory, the A.S. Student Lobby initiative is a great idea. You know, giving students a voice and all that jazz. In reality, however, the group does not have enough power to make a significant diffe...
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A.S. Reaffirmations

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

–The hardships that come with the decision to raise a child should never deter one from pursuing higher education. With the costs of child care on the rise, every cent helps in ensuring those wi...
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Campuswide Initiatives

April 12, 2005 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Though Community Affairs Board (CAB) has the best intentions at heart, it is adequately serving its present purpose with the money it already has. At the very least, an additional 85 cents per student...
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Left Lane Driver: Potential Politicians, Sign Off

April 11, 2005 by Neil Visalvanich

Every year, during the Associated Students election, the Daily Nexus runs endorsements that trash our beloved student politicians and their earnest campaigning. It's become something of tradition at t...
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A.S. Blows (in the Wind)

April 11, 2005 by

The walkway from HSSB to Storke Tower looks like a hurricane came through. Over the weekend, the A.S. campaign signs toppled and splintered, and the gales scattered the pieces like campaign confetti.
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A Vote for Torrin is a Vote for Change

April 11, 2005 by Torrin Brooks

Running as an independent candidate can be tough. I don't get to wear a Christmas-colored T-shirt, I don't have throngs of zombies cheering me when I say anything at a debate and I am always the outsi...
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Joining SAC Means Joining the Fight for the Greater Good

April 11, 2005 by Kavita Kapur

Throughout this week, we've seen a new kind of energy spreading throughout this campus as huge colorful signs are put up on grass plots, and the Arbor becomes more populated with fliers.
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Help Prevent Sexual Assaults During ‘Take Back the Night’ Week

April 11, 2005 by Jessie Nieblas

Students walking around campus during the week of April 11-15 will notice a new addition to the lawns. Now the posters, advertisements and campaign banners share a space with hundreds of brightly colo...
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Private Dancer: Arrogant Activism

April 8, 2005 by Alec Mouhibian

Any remaining notion that modern liberalism is the politics "of the little man" must be retired in light of the open-space agenda. Liberalism is really just the politics of liberals - to impose whatev...
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Knuckleheads

April 8, 2005 by

I used to think there was nothing that could drive me to kill - not even Tickle Me Elmo. Then I discovered what it's like to sit next to someone who cracks their knuckles throughout an entire lecture.
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Fight Night Shouldn

April 8, 2005 by Maral Vahdani

I was more than a little saddened when reading Kaitlin Pike's story on Associated Students Finance Board and its decision to reduce Fight Night's funds by only $299 ("Finance Board Reduces Fight Night...
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