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What Is It, Exactly, That Affects All of You People?

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It Affects Me is part of a campuswide campaign to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault in our community. Don't think you're affected? One woman in fou...
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This Is America, Folks: Even Offensive Speech Is Protected

I'm deeply and constantly troubled by the sentiment expressed by Christine Bai in her column ("Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays" Daily Nexus, April 6)
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UCSB Administrators Could Use Some Motherly Advice

Didn't your mother tell you to put things back where you found them? Since Fall, I think - I don't even know how long it's been - we have been without bike racks at the UCen.
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Nookie With Neighbors

Young, privileged people in college communities are always seeking instant gratification. Most would say that such situations create an ideal that we can always have what we want whenever we want it, ...
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Lend Me Your Helmet

On Tuesday I had a guest lecturer in my Sports Appreciation class (I figure my last quarter of college is a great time to challenge myself) talking about "cycling for fitness.
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King, Parks, Newsom: Pioneers for Change

In Nicholas Romero's opinion piece on gay marriage, he claims that because California state law explicitly prohibits gay marriage, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's issuance of marriage licenses to g...
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Knock: Welcome to UCSB; Now Leave

Seeing the herds of casually dressed adults and bright-eyed youngsters making their way through campus, I feel threatened. I don't like these people. They bother me. I want to see them gone.
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Don’t Trust Infomercials When Dealing With Cops

I got a speeding ticket and the cops were using radar. I read the book on how to fight radar and it seemed pretty easy, but when I got to court, the judge wouldn't let me ask all of the questions that...
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Art School Expels Overly Creative and Offensive Student

When someone brings up the subject of suppression of free speech, I tend to think of right-wing hatemongers who want to use their Second Amendment rights to shoot the First Amendment in the back of th...
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Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays

I was extremely sickened by this month's issue of Details magazine. In the April 2004 issue, author Whitney McNally writes a nasty article about Asian men with a title that reads "Gay or Asian?".
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Insiders Notes on Iranian Politics and All of Its Dangers

It is of obvious consequence that the events on 9/11 rendered the world a different place. Many of the actions the United States has taken, whether unilaterally or with international support, can be d...
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Skid Plaza

Did you see the destruction around Storke Plaza after this weekend? There was trash everywhere. It looked more like a place to get heroin than a place to relax and study.
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Blue Traffic Lights: One Major Breach in Security…

One bright morning in 1999, former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke walked into his office and knew something was wrong. His secretary of 10 years was looking at him in a way she never had bef...
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Correction: I’m the Champ

The weatherhuman has once again won the prestigious weatherhouse NCAA pool.
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The Cruel Repercussions of Newsom’s Actions

There are two conclusions that must be drawn from the same-sex marriage license debacle in San Francisco: One, marriage and monogamy can be considered normative human appreciations that cross the line...
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