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Don’t Mislabel Drag Queens, Kings as Mentally Diseased

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Drunken Bike Racing Has Its Dangers

Last week I received an e-mail addressing the writer's concerns about the "I.V. Bike Race" that was held in Dog Shit Park a few weeks ago. My first reaction to reading about the bike race was to laugh...
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Parking Survey Statistics Slant the View on Permit Plan

As an Isla Vista resident and a future statistician, I feel it is my duty to share my thoughts regarding the study referred to in the "Parking Research Drives I.V. Planners" (Daily Nexus, May 11) arti...
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Drag Queens Present a Day of Scantily Clad, Eye-Opening Education

When I first came to this school, I was under the impression that many of the students here were pretty closed-minded. So I was nervous for the drag queens of the 801 Cabaret in Key West, Fla. when I ...
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Not Planning for Everyone

The I.V. Master Plan proposes in its opening statement of the initiation draft to "make strategic adjustments to the way the community is designed and operated, so that it will better suit the needs a...
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