Opinion
For those of you who missed it, let me recap. Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante admitted that he and Gov. Gray Davis "spent too much" in the past few years, mounting to a $12-20 billion deficit.
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Private companies (e.g. banks and insurance) are prohibited from collecting racial and ethnic data. Proposition 54 would extend that ban to the public sector, with certain exceptions.
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Yesterday I was delighted to find out that Michael Moore would be speaking in Santa Barbara on Friday. I remembered his outburst during the Academy Awards show last year and I thought to myself that t...
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So the university is sending out fliers on the dangers of Halloween revelry in hopes that they will discourage students from inviting their friends to town and partying like mad.
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"The Battle of Algiers" depicts the urban guerrilla warfare waged between Algerian nationals and the French colonial army in the 1950s during the struggle for Algerian independence.
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The long lines of students in front of the local copy shops resembled doomed cattle in more ways than one.
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Higher education is the de facto gateway to economic success and political power in the United States. Like magic, 54 could erase any documented disparity - paper trail - between the blacks and white...
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As the Fall Quarter rolls in, unabated and disposed, new desires and wants creep into the heart and soul of every UCSB student. Every year, whether rain or drought, a fall harvest of ripe and deliciou...
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I've been giving some thought recently to doublespeak, the concept introduced in George Orwell's novel 1984 that entails people accepting two opposing positions at the same time.
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As a parent of a freshman, I just want to tell you that your billing system is the worst I've ever encountered, anywhere.
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Rushing through the crowds of students making their way to and from the UCen on my first day back to campus, something caught my eye.
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Normally, if I said so-and-so went down on me and didn't come up all night, I'd get a high five. But when the so-and-so that started to blow has the initials G-O-L-D, the result complicates my life co...
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Funny how people feel the need to get you ridiculously shitfaced on your birthday. Each year we embark on a new journey, and the first steps taken are wobbly ones.
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Republican State Senator Pete Knight issued a challenge Monday to the Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003, previously AB 205, signed into law by our very own Gray Davis on Sept. ...
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
