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Wow, I Sure Am Bare-Assed

March 5, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

My roommate decided to go celebrate Mardi Gras this last weekend in New Orleans. Admittedly, my only real experience with the celebration is limited to "Girls Gone Wild" videos taped on Bourbon Street...
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Can’t Buy Me Love

March 5, 2003 by

It's a good day for dildos, furry handcuffs and American values. On Tuesday, Victoria's Secret - merchants of bras and panties modeled by pointy-chinned, giraffe-necked women with IQs roughly equal to...
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Backpack Ban Just More of That U.S. Strategery

March 5, 2003 by Tony Samara

Campus Police recently released a statement, distributed to all campus organizations by the Office of Student Life, requesting that organizations ban backpacks from events and post visible security in...
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There’s No Reason Why Only Christians Should Suffer for Lent

March 5, 2003 by Drew Mackie

The use of Yiddish to describe a solemn Christian tradition might seem out-of-place. However, as Christian-specific a holiday as today might be, its theme of sacrifice spans faiths.
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UCSB Students Should Take Part in Isla Vista Master Plan Meetings

March 5, 2003 by Jon Eggart

As some of you may know, there's something going on in Isla Vista called the Master Plan. For over a year, a committee has been meeting to decide the future look of I.V.
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Drugstore Cowboy: The War on Finals Week

March 4, 2003 by Cory Anthony

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

March 4, 2003 by

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

March 4, 2003 by Nico Pitney

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

March 4, 2003 by Conor Coughlan Chris French Pascal Palancade Ramiro Saldain

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

February 28, 2003 by Steven Ruszczycky

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

February 28, 2003 by

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

February 28, 2003 by

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

February 28, 2003 by

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

February 28, 2003 by Joseph Martinez

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

February 28, 2003 by Ed Chen

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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