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How the Grinch Stole Halloween

October 30, 2003 by Staff

"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

October 30, 2003 by Staff

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?

October 30, 2003 by Drew Mackie

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

October 30, 2003 by Jay Freeman

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

October 30, 2003 by Katherine Drabiak

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!

October 29, 2003 by Staff

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

October 29, 2003 by Mark Signa

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

October 29, 2003 by John Eggart

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!

October 29, 2003 by Christina Huff

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

October 29, 2003 by Sam Defranceschi

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?

October 28, 2003 by Daniel Haier

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

October 28, 2003 by The Weatherhuman

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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He Said, She Said: Are Cop Costumes a Good Idea?

October 28, 2003 by Kristina Ackermann

For those of you thinking about being your favorite Isla Vista Foot Patrol officer for Halloween, here are some reasons to reconsider. First, it's illegal. Now that that's out of the way, let's preten...
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Nexus Misses One Piece In Art Photos: Artist’s Name

October 28, 2003 by Robert Weschler

Last week I was impressed to find how newsworthy my recent activities have been. I was honored to find not one, but two photographs involving my recent work on the front page of the campus newspaper.
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Letter Slips Down Slope to Just Plain Name-Calling

October 28, 2003 by Bredan Getzell

In his Oct. 27 ("Assault on Marriage Protection Falls Flat," Daily Nexus) response to Loren Williams' Thursday column "Marriage Protection Week is a Time to Fight Love," Scott Roney argues that Willia...
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