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Ring, Ring

You know what stops you when you crash on your bike?The asphalt.
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Student Health Fee Is No Reason to Get Sick

Coughing. Cold sweats. Warts. Pus-filled wounds. Slimy STIs (STDs). Urine. There's nothing quite like working at UCSB Student Health. Every year Student Health sees about 40,500 sick visitors. And we ...
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Endorsement Blows It Over Office of Student Life Lock-In

I was rather shocked and dismayed by your recent "endorsements" issue. Not so much at the stands you took but because of the sloppy research you did in doing so.
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UCSB Athletics Are More Useful Than the Nexus Believes

This letter is in response to the Daily Nexus' opposition to both the Aquatic Facility Fee and the Athletic Scholarship Fee ("Election Endorsements," April 16, 2003).
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Beware of Motives Behind Supposed Liberal Organization

In the past few weeks, I have seen an information table from Lyndon LaRouche's organization - the International Caucus of Labor Committees/LaRouche in 2004 - in front of the Arbor.
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Fuzzy Math

From the same people who squandered student money in tech stocks and have continually asked students for more cash in the past three elections comes another Associated Students blunder - the sliding-s...
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The Elusive Weatherbutton

What is a campaign anyway? Let's start with the word and break it down. "Camp" - to live somewhere temporarilyin rugged conditions. Okay, that's college. I can dig it.
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All Three Election Parties Come With Their Share of Problems

Walking around campus these days, I see tons of signs littering the lawn. Smells like election season. From what I can tell, there are three major political parties on campus: The Student Action Coali...
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Voting for the Arts & Lectures Fee Is the Nobel Thing to Do

I have just heard from a friend that students are being asked to commit $2 per quarter for Arts & Lectures support. From my own experience, I felt and still feel that such programs provide very valuab...
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“Some People Know What Time it is. Some People Don’t.”

Have you been yelled at by an A.S. candidate today? I have and it sucks.
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The Silence to the South

In an attempt to silence the voices of dissent, Fidel Castro has ordered the arrest of at least 75 individuals for merely speaking their minds. The world's back is turned so it is time to round up any...
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The Golden Rule of Frizz Fighting

What is it that life revolves around? Hair. Yes, it seems that all the important puzzles in life can be reduced to hair questions. Look at Helene Curtis' stunning list of topics: Pregnancy and motherh...
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The Left Gets Radical

Because of the war in Iraq, fierce campus debate and political activism regarding U.S. foreign policy has been unleashed. But something's wrong with this picture: The campus left has become confused w...
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Slings and Arrows

Okay, so there was this Greek guy named Zeno (no that
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Letter Incorrectly Addresses Issues of Indian and Iraqi Strife

Mr. Tartakovsky claims (incorrectly) that India is free of terrorism and extremism that plague other Muslim nations. Why is he incorrect? Even if we discount the violence in Kashmir, blaming it primar...
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