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Education Comes Second to Celebration for Pride Week

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

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

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

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

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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Defending the Foot Patrol

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

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

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

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

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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Democracy in the Balance, Day 2

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

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

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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