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Drugstore Cowboy: The War on Finals Week

I don't plan to still be a passenger when this ship goes down, but I do plan on having a bachelor's degree in English. Which requires, in my case, finishing three more quarters of Chinese after this o...
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Make-up Work

Don't ditch class. Kerr Hall is a scary place. At 10 o'clock at night the building is dark and creepy. It looks something like an old castle in the moonlight. All the windows are dark.
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On March 5, Walk out of Class and Into an Anti-War Protest

The newly formed Student Coalition for Peace calls on UCSB students to join hundreds of other college campuses and participate in the national one-day student strike on March 5, 2003. We believe that ...
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Impounding Bikes Is a Band-Aid Solution to Parking Problem

This letter is in regard to the bike rack problem outside the Carrillo Dining Commons. Because of the poor design of the Carrillo Dining Commons and the limited amount of space available for bike park...
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Dungeons & Soldiers

Representative Charles B. Rangel, the Democrat from New York, is also staunchly anti-war, but he figures that the folks calling the shots would be less inclined to pick a fight with Saddam if their we...
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This is Just the Day

In memory of the late, sweatered Fred Rodgers of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," and out of sympathy for the nation's embittered obituary headline writers:
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Plants and Poop

Leafy green tulips to the county for leaving the ficus on Pardall alone. Tulips as well to the tree people who shacked up with mother nature in protest.
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Feverish

I hate being sick. It started with a sniffle. Then my nose wouldn't stop running. Then it stopped up and I started coughing instead. Now my day is divided into three parts: sickness, overmedication, a...
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Student Protesters Help Keep Things in Perspective

In response to Cory Anthony's editorial, I first want to say that I agree that protesting is not "an end in and of itself." Making noise and marching down the street should be a last resort to get div...
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A Conservative Defense

In response to Rebekah Waldron's mischaracterization of College Republicans (Daily Nexus, "Dishonesty Is Not the Best Policy, College Republicans," Feb. 25, 2003) I, the organizer of the Shannon Reeve...
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Pro-Life Ad Is an Insult to a Woman’s Right to Choose

One of the most common feelings of rape victims is intense helplessness and lack of control over their own bodies. And then we, as a society, have the audacity to tell these women that we will decide ...
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War With Iraq Will Only Bring More Woes

In Matthew Lamont Stern's opinion piece "What Is It Good For?" (Daily Nexus, Feb. 26, 2003), his arguments boil down to the assertion that an American invasion and occupation of Iraq would be for the ...
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UCSB’s Health Education Can Help You Out

I just wanted to find out who on this campus cares about their body, their sex life and their wellbeing. I know I do; that's why I took a class at Student Health on communication and sexual health two...
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Daily Nexus Disappoints with Ill-Conceived Advertisement

Throughout my four years at UCSB, I have diligently read the Nexus almost every morning, interested to see what is affecting the UCSB campus and its students. I was absolutely horrified, however, to r...
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Make Like a Tree and Leave

With everything going on in the world today it is so easy to overlook the things going on in our very own backyard at times. Sure, international politics affects us all on a big scale. But it is the e...
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