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Huff’s Anal Sex Column Soils the Holiest of Holies

In response to Christina Huff's article last Wednesday ("A Back Door to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!"Daily Nexus, Oct.29), I was disgusted reading your article. Not the topic - everyone is entitled...
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DeFranceschi Brightens Up a Curvy Girl’s World

I am writing you regarding the article "Curvy Cate Shouldn't Try to Be Skinny Minnie" by Sam DeFranceschi that ran on Oct. 29. I don't know how else to express how I felt after reading the article exc...
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Jack-o’-Hot Line

The pumpkins reign tonight. I tell ya, those toothy fuckers will wait to bite you on the ass as you stumble drunkenly home from another famous Isla Vista Halloween - with the teeth you carved with you...
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How the Grinch Stole Halloween

"Halloween in Isla Vista: The Party Is Over." This is the subject line of the anti-fun e-mail that Richard Jenkins at the Office of Student Life sent out to students at UCSB, schools across California...
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Human In Black

The weathercomputer is on the fritz once again. The friendly technical support representative diagnosed my grumblings as resulting from a faulty motherboard.
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Will Your Politics Be on the Final, Professors?

Students don't pay for lectures about why the president is an asshole when they should be teaching them how to make a macaroni sculpture or interpret Dostoyevsky. Neither should they expect to learn a...
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Halloween Could Be Fun if I.V. Were a Democracy

On Monday I realized a much more important side of the issue: Our ability to party this Halloween is directly proportional to the amount of democratic might we wield over our own destinies. Isla Vista...
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Dating Game Puts All of the Cards in Men’s Hands

Straight flush. As the cards are dealt, the expressionless poker face overtakes the features, suppressing emotion and sense of honesty. My poker history of interests reads like a failed tournament: to...
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Weatherfever-Catch It!

Why do I have to get sick? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? And how will I bring laughter to the masses when I can't even breathe?
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Badger the Badge, Please

This letter begins what I hope will be a continuing series promoting communication between the students of UCSB and law enforcement of our area.
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Just in Time for Halloween: the UCSB Boogeyman

I would just like to say how extremely disappointed I am in the tone and nature of the email distributed to the UCSB student body.
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A Backdoor to Sexual Delight? Butt of Course!

The sexual revolution in the last few decades has opened the backdoor to previously unacceptable sex practices.
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Curvy Cate Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Skinny Minnie

Beautiful - "having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight." Sexy - "arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest."
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He Said, She Said: Are Cop Costumes a Good Idea?

If there's one way to avoid attention from the law this Halloween, it's to be the law. Dressing as police officers will provide you and your friends the opportunity to live out every law enforcement f...
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Pre-Marinate For Best Results

A storm is coming. It's coming from where you're from. It's your friends from back home. And boy, are they jazzed about coming to IV for Halloween.
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