Opinion
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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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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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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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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Shiny, spacious and still smelling like new, Manzanita Village is the Carnival cruise liner of UCSB's dorms. San Miguel, conversely, is like a canoe with a broken paddle floating in a sewage treatment...
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The winds of change have blown hard all summer. The governor is soon to be replaced by a murderous-but-popular machine from the future, and Karl Malone is on the Lakers.
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
