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Secret Ballot

April 21, 2003 by

You can vote! You can vote online. You can vote at the polls.That's right, there are two ways to vote this year!
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A Week for Political Fools

April 21, 2003 by Tony Samara

While world opinion on Cuba is varied, once you pull your head out of America's ass you can at least recognize that a tiny, poor country that has been the target of military, economic and political ag...
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Representative Replacement Takes Experience out of the PAC

April 21, 2003 by Scott McDowell

I was shocked and appalled by your article "A.S. Debates I.V. Rep, Cash Flow," (Daily Nexus, April 17). The IVPAC actually addresses many more issues than just the community center mentioned in the ar...
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Not Quite Splitting Hairs

April 18, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

I live with a gorilla. No, really. A hairy, loud, monkey-butt gorilla. He's my male genome project, my dirty sex maniac and my boy roommate. He's endearing, inebriated and completely incapable of clea...
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Ring, Ring

April 18, 2003 by

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

April 18, 2003 by Neco Armstrong

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

April 18, 2003 by Britt Andreatta Office of Student Life

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

April 18, 2003 by Chris Austin

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

April 18, 2003 by Sabrina L Pinnell

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

April 17, 2003 by Daily Nexus Editorial Board

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

April 17, 2003 by

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

April 17, 2003 by Maritza Torrez

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

April 17, 2003 by Walter Kohn

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.”

April 16, 2003 by

Have you been yelled at by an A.S. candidate today? I have and it sucks.
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The Left Gets Radical

April 14, 2003 by Joey Tartakovsky

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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