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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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Think

April 30, 2003 by Jenny Promack

Democracy in the Balance, Day 2

April 29, 2003 by

Attention students: The true winner of the campus elections is being kept from you. Despite the repeated inquiries by my aides, A.S. refuses to say how many votes I received. They say I didn't pay a f...
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Bad Timing Just Happens

April 29, 2003 by Mar Logrono

The Student Action Forum on the Middle East (SAFME) recently organized a lecture - "Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and the Prospects of Global Empire" - by two well-known analysts of Mideast politics that to...
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Some Violence Can Be Fun for Everyone

April 29, 2003 by Drew Mackie

It's Fight Night, the frat-sponsored celebration of old-fashioned pugilism. Although the juxtaposition of the two events might raise an eyebrow or two, they're completely unrelated. But I can almost h...
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Another election come and gone.

April 28, 2003 by

S.A.C. swept the executive offices and the Gauchoholics tanked harder than a sorority pledge during Rush Week. The question on everyone's mind, though, is why didn't the Weatherhuman win? Something sm...
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Election Aftermath: Sign Watch 2003

April 28, 2003 by

In order to make sure that all our political animals don't soil our campus greens any longer than absolutely necessary, the Daily Nexus is proud to present Sign Watch 2003. Candidates, you have a litt...
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One Country’s Terrorist

April 28, 2003 by Joey Tartakovsky

Why is it that we, along with a handful of liberal democratic nations around the world, ought to be particularly concerned with the threat of terrorism? Because of one simple but powerful axiom: Terro...
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Winners Get to Write the History Books, Hide Their War Crimes

April 28, 2003 by Neil Wollman

We have all deservedly heard of the terrible cases of war crimes committed recently by the Iraqis. But why have we not heard of the war crimes committed by the U.S.? There have been cases of the U.S. ...
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