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Isla Vista Foot Patrol Deserves Residents’ Praise, Not Derision

May 5, 2003 by Dorothy Dent

I would like to strongly echo Henry Sarria's article (Daily Nexus, "Defending the Foot Patrol," April 30). We are very lucky to have this excellent style of community policing in our small, dense, stu...
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Living Without Vowels: Swallow You Whole

May 2, 2003 by Steven Ruszczycky

In the wee morning hours of Thursday, April 24, two UC Police Dept. officers happened across 13.17 feet and 85 pounds of Burmese python coiled up, cold and near death in a parking lot on the Devereux ...
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Goods and Services

May 2, 2003 by

The weathercavemates and I are in the habit of playing horrible practical jokes on one another. One of the more original ones involves stealing an unsuspecting 'mate's checkbook and writing naughty th...
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Education Comes Second to Celebration for Pride Week

May 2, 2003 by John Zayac

I was flipping through the Daily Nexus on Monday morning, anxious to see what this week, the once-a-year week set aside for queers to be openly embraced by our campus community, had to offer.
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Defense I.V. Amounts to Nothing but Wasted Breath

May 2, 2003 by Juan Verde

While I admire Henry Sarria's opinion "Defending the Foot Patrol" (Daily Nexus, April 28,2003), it will go on deaf ears for many reasons. To start with, his intended audience, the Grand Jury, doesn't ...
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Drugstore Cowboy: No Change Comes Easily

May 1, 2003 by Cory Anthony

Myself, I really don't care about the color of the person who represents me. Or the gender. Or the shoe size. All I want is someone who may be able to get something done.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

May 1, 2003 by

Nexus people bet on weird things, like election outcomes or the number of mosquitos we can kill on a given day in our pest-infested office. Today's lead story is the Los Alamos contract. So naturally,...
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Some Professors Get All the Luck With Research Projects

May 1, 2003 by Trey Myklebust

After spending some time reading, I found it necessary to point out a recent encounter of mine with a certain publication that is frequented by many of our UCSB students.
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Think

May 1, 2003 by

Defending the Foot Patrol

April 30, 2003 by Henry Sarria

Grand juries are a funny thing. On the one hand, you have a group of people gathered together to make a ruling to better some aspect of society based on the findings in their published report.
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Lots of Problems

April 30, 2003 by

I have a problem class. Every time my professor gets frustrated, he relieves his misery by assigning extra homework. Every time he grades our homework, he gets frustrated.
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My Gay Brother Is Better Than an Older Sister

April 30, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

I've definitely made out with girls. I was about 13 when my older brother Scott related to me over a car wash that he called his boyfriend "Pookie" on occasion.
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You Shouldn’t Ignore the Reasons for War

April 30, 2003 by Ana Kaczmarek

Apparently Scott Englund's television is stuck on FOX. His statement that this war was "fought for entirely moral reasons" (Daily Nexus, "Protest Signs Tell More About Liberal Delusions Than Iraqi War...
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Letter Misinterprets Intent of Signs on Women’s Center Lawn

April 30, 2003 by Staff

This is in response to Scott Englund's letter (Daily Nexus, "Protest Signs Tell More About Liberal Delusions Than Iraqi War," April 28, 2003). As an employee of the Women's Center, I would like to fir...
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