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UCSB Screws the Disabled When It Comes to Parking

July 7, 2004 by Josh Bernstein

The one thing that has become apparent to me since attending college is that Wu-Tang Clan was right: "Cash rules everything around me." UCSB is no exception.
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A Dilemma at a Discount

June 30, 2004 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Be careful what you wish for - it just might turn around and bite you in the ass. Two weeks ago, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a revised version of the Isla Vista parking plan...
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Rent-a-Friend

June 30, 2004 by

Change is in the air at the weatherhouse. The weatherhousemates are being forced to relocate because their greek organization is threatening to charge them several hundred dollars if they don't move i...
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Just ‘Moore’ Clowning Around?

June 30, 2004 by Neil Visalvanich

In America, it's become customary to start things off with a bang. After all, our two longest standing traditions are shooting things and buying things - preferably shooting the things we've bought. A...
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A Final Word from the Former Editor-in-Chief

June 3, 2004 by Brendan Buhler

On Tuesday, I was sitting in a chair at Energy Tattoo as P.J. Ferrante ran his needle over my flesh and I started thinking about my being editor in chief of the Daily Nexus for the last two years. "Oh...
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Secretly Not a Blond(e)?

June 3, 2004 by

Like, oh my god, it's time for a new weatherhuman!!! I'm totally sure I'll be able to keep my gender unknown next year! I can totally keep a secret... like when Ashley and Brad hooked up at Ashley's p...
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Bedhead Diaries: Sweet Home Isla Vista

June 3, 2004 by Meghan Palma

When your life here feels worlds away from life back home, issues of identity inevitably come into play as the struggle to balance the two becomes increasingly necessary to sustain sanity. But though ...
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The Artful Dodger: The Lone Trek to Super Seniordom

June 3, 2004 by Drew Mackie

It's June. This year - my senior year of college - is nearly done, yet I keep thinking about books I read in grade school. You know the kind.
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So What Did You Say?

June 3, 2004 by Drew Mackie

"I faced the facts: I am a 21-year-old male - the worst demographic to rent to, bar none. We are dirty, we get drunk and break stuff, we don't even own vacuums and the only time our apartments are cle...
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Goodbye from the Box

May 28, 2004 by

Bye, Nexites. We did it every night, and we did it good. Funny, fearless geniuses who can handle their liquor - I'd be lucky to work with a group like you again.
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Sunburns and Suntans

May 28, 2004 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

Shiny, greased-up suntans to the newly established Pita Pit for providing a yummy late-night alternative to Freebirds. Itchy, scratchy sunburns to the I.V. parking plan proposal for charging us up the...
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Damn Skippy: What Happened to the Family?

May 28, 2004 by Loren Willams

Everyone in the political world loves the Family. They may not like their own families, as the second or even third marriages of our upstanding leaders tell us, but they love Families.
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One Political Journey Comes to an End

May 28, 2004 by Nicholas Romero

It began for me with the fire marshal commanding me to take down political paraphernalia off my door in the on-campus dorms because it was unpopular during the election season and "it would possibly c...
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American Citizens Need Not Fear Our Government

May 28, 2004 by Jessica Lavash

I was terrified of my bathroom when I was five. My neighbor told me that there were spies from the government who were listening in there. As I grew older, I realized that he was another one of the ma...
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Reduce Your Chances of I.V. Rape by Partying Intelligently

May 28, 2004 by Chris Lauritzen

The following is a response to Maria Harutyunyan's Wednesday column ("Rapists Should Own Up to Their Crimes," Daily Nexus, May 26). First, I agree, as I hope we all do, with Maria's contempt for those...
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