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Free Food Doesn’t Always Come in Candy on Halloween

Looking forward to Halloween? The Associated Students Commission on Public Safety (ASCPS) wants you to maximize your pleasure and minimize your pain this year by coming out to the "Halloween Public Sa...
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‘Assylum’ Isn’t an Accurate Representation of Psychology

On Oct. 21, 2003, you ran a comic strip titled, "The Assylum." This comic strip offended me because I have spent a week in a psychiatric hospital. I ended up in the hospital because last year, I tried...
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Hot and Ready for Action

Nothing feels better than waking up and knowing you have a hot date lined up for the evening. It's not just any date, it's the date with that special someone you've been seeing for a few weeks.
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Hot Hot ‘Human

Hot day yesterday, huh? I have trouble getting motivated when it's that hot. I just want to lay outside naked and get drunk and sweaty with someone special.
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Have Your Cake, Eat It and Save a Slice

They say you can't have your cake and eat it too. But that's not necessarily the truth. All too often it seems we measure out cakes and our lives by an "all or nothing" standard.
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Sexual Assault Is Not Sex

People in this society who are committed to reducing sexual assault fall under a common misconception that must be clarified. We are dedicated to the end of rape and sexual assault, not sex! In fact, ...
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And the Truth Shall Set You in Pee

How about the open letter from the Chancellor about National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week? Long, boring and full of statements like "Alcohol abuse directly undercuts the return on your parents' e...
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Weekend Campaign Hopes for Three Days Free of Rape

Between Oct. 23 and Oct. 26, UCSB's Rape Prevention Education Program will initiate a new campaign entitled, "I Want a Truce." This campaign seeks as its goal three days without sexual assault in our ...
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Searching for Even Steven

Something has been bothering me more and more. I have followed the debate in the Nexus opinion page with continuing dissatisfaction. This feeling of unease climaxed Wednesday night when I attended a t...
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Why is Money Green?

What is with the commercials for the new twenty-dollar bill? Why do they need to advertise money? If I can use this new bill to purchase things, I assure you I will use it.
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Adelman’s Lecture About Israel Doesn’t Add Up

Dr. Jonathan Adelman is a supposedly highly respected member of his field. I attended his lecture titled "Israel/Palestine: Myths and Realities" on Oct. 15th and expected to come to better understand ...
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The Reader’s Voice: What’s Your Problem? Quote Is a Problem for STD Victims

I would like to respond to one of the quotes in the Daily Nexus's Wednesday, October 15th story,"What's Your Problem?" Ricky Denoda is quoted as saying, "I'm visiting and I heard that one in 20 of th...
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Huff’s Smutty Column Stinks Worse Than Giving a Rim Job

I am writing in response to the distasteful and hardly comedic column I have been reading in the Nexus. As a freshman I would proudly pick up the Daily Nexus every Wednesday looking forward to Beth Va...
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Vague, Illegally Posted Signs About Feminism Are Bad Ads

Walking around campus recently, I noticed a ton of small white flyers taped over many of the flyers I had posted for an event at the Women's Center, the 11th Annual National Young Women's Day of Actio...
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Please Read the Weatherdegenerate.

Those swine at the Corner Store charge two dollars for a Bic lighter. I call them gougers and liars--their store isn't even on the corner of anything. Then again, there are a few naming problems on th...
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