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Look Out, Free Speech – Here Comes an Election!

Every year, we receive complaints from students and student groups about various posting concerns on campus. During election season, these complaints often involve nefarious activities and shenanigans...
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The Artful Dodger: Stupid Thoughts While Pondering the Essence of Idiocy

It has come to my attention that some of you are stupid - that is, the slow, the dense, the willfully ignorant, the ones who just don't get it. I think we can all agree that the university, an institu...
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Yay for Rescue Workers, Boo for Nocturnal Firebugs

At about four in the morning Sunday, I was woken up by the sound of some drunken shouting outside my window. This has happened before, so I didn't pay attention to the drunken jackassing around that w...
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Surrender Your Parking Spot!

You, your boozer friends and your shitty car just aren't welcome, apparently. As part of a plan to reduce the fun out-of-town revelers have in Isla Vista, Academic Senate Chair Walter Yuen proposed to...
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Slope-browed Interlude

Dear readers, the Weatherhuman was not to be found on Superbowl Sunday, most likely because the human was not answering the phone at the Fortress of Inebriation.
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Blue Traffic Lights: Tallying the Victories of the Iraqi War

One of the things that made Saddam stand out as a dictator among dictators was that he liked to partake in his tortures, not just command them from above. In one video recording, he sits and watches a...
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Houston… Hellhole! Hut! Hike!

The only forecasting that matters now is the Super Bowl kind.
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Only Use Pot Responsibly

In the article "Don't Waste Money on Weed, Make Money With It," (Daily Nexus, Jan. 28) Joel Furman discusses the anti-drug commercials that pollute our airways and waste our desperately needed tax mon...
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Not Even Bananas Are Exempt From Laws

Sometimes you have to wonder about the outgoing product of our wonderful UC system. I mean, there's a billion and one things in this world to legitimately complain about. But a banana? No, I'm not sid...
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Democrats Forget the Number One Issue In Politics: Evil

Believing myself to be an ace political commentator, the following advice could very well make or break Democratic presidential campaigns. If you or someone you know is acquainted with any of the cand...
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Drugstore Cowboy: Getting Amphetamines Is as Easy as A-D-D

I'm not sure when it was that I first saw the commercial for Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. That probably means that I do lack attention to detail, due to distractibility - very frequently.
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Self-Medicating Hot Line

College kinda hurts. We at the Hot Line know this pain. We share it. And like many of you, we often take it upon ourselves to numb the pain and drive off the horrors of this cut-throat university lif...
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Squeezing Every Last Drop

Students occasionally ask me how to best take advantage of their four years. Information is cheap, but growth and understanding is hard to come by. Most undergraduates follow the path of least resista...
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Reverse Racism Can’t Help Race Relations

As America moves toward a brighter future, discrimination continues to plague the way society interacts. A recent article posted in the Nexus titled "Rape or Race Coverage?" (Jan. 22) exemplifies this...
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Misogynist Art Has No Place in Nexus

What the hell is wrong with Chris Calzetta. Is he really as much of an asshole as he makes himself out to be in his illustrations?
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