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Join QSU in National Coming Out Day and Wear Jeans

National Coming Out Day is the day when the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and allied - or just queer - community celebrates its identity by sharing that identity with friends and famil...
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All-Out Attacks on Arabs in the Nexus Must Be Put to an End

I'm a freshman here at UCSB, and I find it quite biased to continually include pro-Israeli, Arab-bashing articles in your newspaper. Whether they are included in the opinion section or not, it's insul...
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Don’t Suck When Sucking

I overheard a guy say that there is no such thing as a bad blow job. I don't know why, but it is an indisputable fact that men love to receive oral sex.
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Joke

So we elected Arnold Scwarzenegger governor! Ha ha! That is funny.
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TAs Should Demonstrate More Quietly, Further From Students

We all know that the financial situation at UCSB is currently dire. Tuition has seen unprecedented hikes, clubs and organizations have had their budgets slashed, etc.; this has caused some groups to p...
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Verbose Artsweek Columnist Slights the Current Punk Scene

It's a lot like the phrase "pick on someone your own size" - instead of making an interesting comment on makeoutclub.com and wannabe hipsters shakin' their hips, Drew Mackie, in a verbose and exaggera...
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Playing by the Rules of War

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, when, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, as the entire nation of Israel was in prayer and fasting, the combined armies or Syria and Egyp...
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Fat and Groping in Sacramento

Today is the day the bodybuilders, porn stars, midgets and politicians will battle for the prize--and that's only at the famous Tuesday Twister Tournament at the weathercave.
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Recall Tells Politicians Exactly Where to Stick It

It comes as no surprise. And as the deadline of Oct. 7, 2003 approaches, I truly hope that soon-to-be former Governor Gray Davis isn't surprised as well.
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Tribes Don’t Deserve Arnie’s Unfounded Criticisms

In a pre-election poll released on Wednesday, 61 percent of those polled say they will recall Davis, and 45 percent say they will vote for Schwarzenegger. It appears evident that California will soon ...
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Pornographers: The Champions of American Values

I'm appalled at the lack of civility being shown to an upstanding segment of our community: pornographers. These paragons of America's defining value - freedom - are inexplicably reviled despite cease...
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Nexus Election Endorsements: The Recall

This recall is costing the state of California $70 million that definitely don't need to be spent. Especially not on a sideshow.And there's already talk of a new recall campaign to begin if Schwarzene...
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War on Leaks

The Bush people are being accused of blowing the cover of a CIA agent to get back at her anti-war husband, and some people are wondering why it took the administration several weeks after finding out ...
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Nexus Election Endorsements: Governator

Ah, the least of 152 evils. Picking Cruz Bustamante as the best candidate to replace the present governor is like spotting the least soiled corner of a discolored Motel 6 mattress.
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Nexus Election Endorsements: Prop. 53

Proposition 53 is the closest thing to being boring to the point of death that anyone at this office has ever encountered. An interesting scheme, really, if its intent is as malicious as its possibili...
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