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Staff Box Hot Line

May 21, 2004 by

This particular box will be calling attention to a different framed rectangle that graces the pages of the Nexus: the staff box. Today is the last day you'll see many of your Nexus favorites. It's cal...
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Knock: Don’t Steal Me Lucky Charms!

May 20, 2004 by Drew Atkins

Watch your back, Dalai Lama! Find a new job, Dr. Phil! Start panicking, Buddha! There's a new philosophically inspiring bigwig in town, and his name is Me!
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Talk Amongst Yourselves

May 20, 2004 by

I see more unicyclists on campus these days. I saw a guy yesterday that looked like he was riding the damn thing for the first time. "That guy is cool, his day at school is like a fucking thrill ride,...
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True Free Speech Can’t Be Censored

May 20, 2004 by Scott Talkov

Make no mistake about it: Free speech is under attack on our very own campus. This past Wednesday, the Associated Students Legislative Council convened to consider condemnation of the Nexus as a "bias...
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Don’t Mislabel Drag Queens, Kings as Mentally Diseased

May 20, 2004 by Alina Boyden

I am not crazy! I am not crazy! OK, sorry for the drama, but I needed to get that out of my system. As far as I know, I am the only student here at UCSB who has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Dis...
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Car-Obsessed Isla Vistans Need to Quit Complaining

May 20, 2004 by Chandler Briggs

I'm sure a lot of people were wondering about the comment I made at last week's group meeting, when I was quoted saying, "I don't even have a fucking car; what am I doing here?" ("Parking Permit Remai...
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An Entertaining, Funny Nexus Serves Its Readers Just Fine

May 20, 2004 by Nathan Lovell

While I understand and admire Ms. Greenwell's sentiment regarding the purpose and potential of the Daily Nexus and all that it could accomplish in the enlightenment of the student body ("Nexus Has a R...
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Strutting With Pride

May 19, 2004 by Kate Rice

You know it when you see it. It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday, and a girl walks by your house carrying her Steve Maddens, make-up smeared from here to next Tuesday, hair messed up beyond recognition and in ...
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Leftovers

May 19, 2004 by

NBC extended Carson Daly's contract to host "Last Call" through 2007. In related news, the weatherhuman extended its personal commitment to change the channel immediately at the end of Conan O'Brien t...
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Praising Drag Queens Perpetuates Lack of Treatment for Mentally Ill

May 19, 2004 by Ted Hastings

In February I wrote a letter to the Nexus in which I argued against gay marriage while promoting the "slippery slope" idea that if we accept homosexuality as normal we will soon see the emergence of o...
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Damn Skippy: Two Can Play This Game

May 18, 2004 by Loren Willams

One of my fellow Nexus columnists, Joey Tartakovsky, did a piece last week on the migration of jobs overseas. He interviewed one of UCSB's resident economists about this trend. Tartakovsky is a clever...
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Don’t Get Between the ‘Human and Its Hog

May 18, 2004 by

Who wants to do a good deed by helping out the 'human? Nobody? Ok, who wants to be the 'human for a day and say whatever the hell you want to the whole campus? That's better.
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Nexus Has a Responsibility to Be Culturally Sensitive

May 18, 2004 by Elisha Greenwell

As a member of the black community, I am proud to know that some are willing to fight for equality. As a member of the black community, I am hopeful in knowing that eventually the Nexus will depict al...
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Blue Traffic Lights: Prevailing Against Atrocity

May 17, 2004 by Joey Tartakovsky

It is hard for Americans to see the repulsive images of American soldiers humiliating Iraqi detainees and not think, "I thought we were the ones that didn't do that." But we recognize that the abuses ...
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Civil War

May 17, 2004 by

So I've heard from a lot of people who were apparently upset by my "NorCal" remarks on Friday. I just wanted to say it was all in the name of sport, and I in no way intended to portray NorCal as infer...
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