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Race to the Bathroom

May 14, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

Sex is great. However there is this odd post-coital period that continually traumatizes me. It can be traumatizing in two ways: with a condom and without one.
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Ans and Ists

May 14, 2003 by The Weatherhuman

There's been a lot of hubbub in the news lately about Patriot Act II. Personally, I think the Patriot Acts are just old McCarthy Era legislation that's been dusted off and touched up.
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U.S. Should Not Embrace Nuclear Arms

May 14, 2003 by Joey Tartakovsky

If you lived in a world whose opinion of your behavior ranged from concerned to downright paranoid, the last thing you'd want to do would be to make more dangerous new weapons - especially if they're ...
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Sound Arguments for Earth

May 13, 2003 by Loren Williams

This is in response to Justin Ruhge's column (Daily Nexus, "University Idealism Is Anything But Right," May 8). Far from being a secret communist movement, environmentalism is the principle that all a...
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Cut and Paste

May 13, 2003 by Staff

How many times have you been sitting in the UCen, bored to death, staring over a book that you should be studying, but can’t bring yourself to look at? If I may, I would like to suggest a new UC...
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A.S. Director Doesn’t Deserve Vicious Attacks

May 13, 2003 by Jim Keenley

Kalinksi and the Daily Nexus also seem to have a variety of misconceptions regarding this year's general election. I can assure Mr. Kalinski and the Daily Nexus that the sliding scale constitutional a...
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Don’t Just Imagine a World Free of Rape

May 13, 2003 by Carl Barnes

Do you know four women? Then you probably know someone who has, or will be, raped. We would rather believe that the average rapist is a sociopath who cannot control his sexual drives.
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Students Shouldn’t Buy the Myths Surrounding Alcohol Use

May 13, 2003 by Staff

So you think you know everything there is to know about alcohol, drugs and partying, right? Wrong. There are a lot of misconceptions about drinking floating around these days that could potentially ge...
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The Right’s Take on Environmental Issues Just Doesn’t Seem Natural

May 13, 2003 by Scott Steele

Justin M. Ruhge's latest rant (Daily Nexus, "University Idealism Is Anything But Right," May 8, 2003) compelled me to respond with some thoughts I have been having recently about nature.
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Peace on the Horizon?

May 12, 2003 by Henry Sarria

The "Roadmap to Peace" has been presented to the Israelis and the Palestinians. This noble plan for something so elusive hinges on many factors, but there is one factor most prevalent in the big pictu...
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Post-Mother’s Day Blues

May 12, 2003 by Staff

I sincerely hope that you all had a pleasant Mother's Day. I know you all went home or called or sent nice cards.
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Sex Research Strips Opinion From Fact

May 12, 2003 by Kristen Payne

In response to a column by Trey Myklebust (Daily Nexus, May 1). Apparently, Myklebust is less than supportive of a research project that was conducted by a team of professors at UCSB. This project inc...
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Living Without Vowels: I Just Want to Rock

May 9, 2003 by Steven Ruszczycky

The man is bullwhip lean - roughly 115 pounds, 20 if he's lucky, of middle-aged derision culminating in a lousy haircut and pocket protector lodged in his shirt's breast pocket.
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Eeny-meany, Mediany, Mode

May 9, 2003 by Staff

Weatherfriend 1: "They're opening a new statistics department."Weatherfriend 2: "We don't have one?"Weatherfriend 1: "Yes, but we're starting another one."
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Daily Nexus Overshoots the UC Tuition Fee Hikes

May 9, 2003 by Jerry Kissler

While providing important information about how budget cuts may impact UC, your story, "UC Regents To Vote on Tuition" (Daily Nexus, May 7, 2003) significantly overstated the fee increase the regents ...
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