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Hot Hot ‘Human

October 22, 2003 by Staff

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

October 22, 2003 by Randall Shulman

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

October 21, 2003 by Max Anders

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

October 21, 2003 by The Weatherhuman

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

October 21, 2003 by Henry T. Yang Yonnie Harris Michael D. Young

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

October 20, 2003 by Katrina Hale

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?

October 20, 2003 by Staff

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

October 20, 2003 by Tom Simson

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

October 20, 2003 by Anonymous

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

October 20, 2003 by Celia Soudry

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

October 20, 2003 by Staff

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.

October 17, 2003 by Staff

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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Nexus Coverage Must Be Accurate

October 17, 2003 by Miguel Mendoza

On Oct. 15, 2003, Students for a Free Tibet enacted a mock execution of Tibetan political prisoners on the UCSB campus. Thankfully, the Nexus was able to send out a reporter to cover this action.
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The Ignored Refugees

October 17, 2003 by Neer Lerner

Skirmishes between Jews and Arabs in 1930s-40s pre-state Israel produced a Palestinian refugee population. It is often argued that the Israeli government should compensate the descendants of the Pales...
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Room for One More Star?

October 16, 2003 by David Downs

The 51st state of the union will not be Puerto Rico or even American Samoa. It will be a sand-filled, terrorist incubator that will make those Islamic schools in Pakistan look like an alternative kind...
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