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Call It a Dream, but We Could Become Biketopia

Welcome to UCSBicycle, the campus where there are more bikes than cars. Easily. Here, bikes are basic transportation and riding them is akin to driving on the 101 or 405 freeways, and it pays to be al...
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Horribly Stupid Sex Column Could Be Greatly Improved

I am writing this letter to tell you how disappointed I am with the sex columnist this year. The glory days of looking forward to picking up the Wednesday paper are forever lost to me.
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Columnist’s Coitus Doesn’t Make for an Interesting Read

As I was reading the Nexus on Wednesday I was extremely disappointed when I got to the Wednesday Hump ("Love Over Sex," Daily Nexus, Oct. 13). This was an incredibly unimaginative article.
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Made Elsewhere

Yesterday some bozo said the Weather sucks this year. Unfortunately, he may be right; the budget crunch has forced the Nexus to outsource the Weatherhuman to writers in Bangalore, India, so quality ma...
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Clearance!

Well, it's the third week of school already, and we are getting a bunch of thefts reported to us. Bikes and laptops are being taken by some pretty unscrupulous crooks. Like there are scrupulous crooks...
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Tying The Knot Isn’t Too Bad After All

When I told Daily Nexus Opinion Editor Meghan Palma that I was getting married this summer, she said that maybe I could write a column on married life. After all, my bachelor status was the longest ru...
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Dualist Ideals In The UN

The United Nations was founded as an international institution intended to promote peace and global unity while fighting fascism. Yet, today it has become a forum for Arab nations to vent their politi...
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Nexus Does Not Know How To Party, Politically At Least

The content of the Nexus article "Green VP Candidate Speaks in MCC" (Daily Nexus, Oct. 13) was misleading. At the end of the article, a student says, "I'm really glad one of the political parties chos...
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Pride Day Ended Up Being Shameful, Not Celebratory

I never thought I would have any reason to be ashamed of being gay, but National Coming Out Day gave me a one. I woke up Monday morning, excitedly anticipating the day's festivities in celebration of ...
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Get a Clue, Meatheads; You Aren’t Impressing Anyone

This article is addressed to all the Rec Cen pretenders. We have all seen them before. I am talking about those guys who are in the weight room for hours, doing anything and everything besides working...
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Love Over Sex

No matter how kinky things got in the past or will inevitably get in the future, the act of making love stands as the big, firm, glorious rock amidst the choppy shoreline of hooking up and one night s...
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A Crappy Day

I am currently watching two guys carry bags of waste water out of the Nexus office. For a few harrowing hours the other night, sewage seeped into the office - perhaps the lagoon backed up - and all of...
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A.S. Is Broke, But Do They Need More Money?

Yes, UCSB's very own Associated Students is having financial woes of its own - Apocalyptic financial woes. Just to give you an idea of how bad things are, last year, A.S. Finance Board was able to dol...
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Damn Skippy: He’s the Comeback Kid of Tikrit

Greetings American students. This is Saddam Hussein. I'm sure you have heard of me. I'm equally sure that you dislike me. Perhaps we could become pen pals someday. Your pictures are welcome too - it i...
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Nuke Lab Lover Can’t Tell Me Not to Call Scientists Evil

I am glad that Justin Violini ("UCs Do More Than Destroy, Just Ask Our Nobel Laureates," Daily Nexus, Oct. 12) recognizes that Ross' article ("UC Bankrolling a Nuclear Fallout," Daily Nexus, Oct. 11) ...
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