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Coming Soon: The Weather Reader

May 24, 2004 by

Look up at the Nexus staff box today. You'll see a bunch of new names in new places, as we turn over the staff and get ready for next year.
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Blue Traffic Lights: Chatting With Lois Capps

May 24, 2004 by Joey Tartakovsky

The following is an interview with congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara), conducted on Thursday, May 20.
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Apathetic Briggs Threatens Student Voice

May 24, 2004 by Todd Roberson

Who is Chandler Briggs and why has he been given the title of "student representative" on Isla Vista Project Area and General Plan Advisory Committees? It appears that he does not know what it means t...
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Rice Dehumanizes TAs as Objects of Sexual Gratification

May 24, 2004 by Michelle Samura

When angry, take a deep breath and count to 10. I've counted to 10 - 10 days to be exact. I thought the passing of time would help to clear my mind of some of the cloudy haze of frustration, anger and...
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Not All Women Should Be Seen as Damsels in Distress

May 24, 2004 by Amanda Maffett

This is in response to "The Key to Women Lies in Relationships" by Timothy Cho (Daily Nexus, May 21). Let me start out with one of his opening lines: "Women were created for men." Should I count how m...
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Self Examination

May 21, 2004 by

When my teacher announced in class yesterday that the quiz we had scheduled for that day was postponed, people immediately started getting up and heading for the exits.
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Challenging Your Beliefs

May 21, 2004 by Tiye Baldwin

Strict adherence to any ideology is the very definition of rigid thinking. To accept a particular line of thought unflinchingly is to imply that your own wisdom is boundless.
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The Key to Women Lies in Relationships

May 21, 2004 by Timothy Cho

Here is the humbling truth about men and women. Women were created for men, and men cannot live without women. Women are beautiful. No matter what the size, shape, age or any other physical variables ...
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Issues Within Iraqi War Are Not in Black and White

May 21, 2004 by Adam Al-Sarraf

In this time of war and occupation in Iraq, we, the American public, are being told by the mainstream media that there are only two sides, two opinions to this situation; you are either pro-war or ant...
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Don’t Waste Outreach Dollars on Kiddies Who Don’t Know Better

May 21, 2004 by Adam Pinson

"Hi!" "Giggle, giggle." "Give me five." These are the words of junior high and little elementary kids that are amazed at me passing by them on my bike on my way to class, rather than the university th...
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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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