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February 4, 2003 by

Lab Rat: Remember the Beauty of Exploration

February 3, 2003 by Josh Braun

More pressure, less funding - this is the true recipe for disaster. Corporations, politicians and public interest all have something to say about how scientists ply their trade. And as I learned about...
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Achoo!

February 3, 2003 by

I hate dust. Living in Isla Vista is like setting up a shanty insida a vacuum bag. I leave my stuff out for a week and when I retrieve it I feel like an Indiana Jones raching for a spider-covered idol...
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Write Good

January 31, 2003 by

After careful research, I have determined that there are only three kinds of midterms. In keeping with UCSB's fine tradition of simplifying issues until an acronym can be found, I have listed them
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Living Without Vowels: A Better Kind of Outbreak

January 31, 2003 by Steven Ruszczycky

Lots of people are pretty mad about Bush's State of the Union Address, so mad that they held peaceful demonstrations and mocked the commander in chief's pronunciation of the word "nuclear."
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Loss of Learning Should Be an Adequate Excuse From Jury Duty

January 31, 2003 by Jennifer Skye Wallace

As a history major, I've learned that when studying any given event or period, one should look for all possible factors or motives behind that given event: social, international, economic.
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An X-Game by Any Other Name Still Isn’t All That Extreme

January 31, 2003 by Henry Sarria

It is that time once again, and I'm seriously not looking forward to it. The X Games are coming to fascinate the minds of so-called extreme viewers and spectators of the sport spectacle of the century...
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Don’t Be Quick to Assume the Residency of UCSB Students

January 31, 2003 by Mike Willis

I imagine that I am not alone in being a little disturbed by Justin Ruhge's column (Daily Nexus, "Temporary Student Residents Shouldn't Play with Voting Blocks," Jan. 28, 2003).
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The Wednesday Hump Bumps, Grinds and Misses the Point

January 31, 2003 by Daphne Adato

I guess it takes a woman writing about women to create even more contradictions and problems. I applaud Beth Van Dyke's attempt to take a crack at the battle of the sexes.
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What Women Really Want

January 29, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

I've decided that women are crazy. I know this because I am crazy. Sometimes I think I should take myself out on a date because I'm the only one who would truly understand the capacity of my insanity...
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Coin-Op Hell

January 29, 2003 by

The decline of Western civilization is an agonizingly slow process peppered with occasional indicators like inflation, reduced funding for the arts, limitations to individual freedoms, "Elimidate," th...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

January 29, 2003 by

Unless the concept of "more bang for your buck" directly relates to a massive spontaneous failure of the kidneys, two and a half hours is just too long.
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They’re Out for Blood

January 29, 2003 by Drew Mackie

It's the prickly presence of a nuclear mosquito, a member of the oversized, bloodthirsty, buzzing, scummy lagoon-spawning, itch-inducing tribe of bugs that that now apparently calls UCSB home.
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Fixed Seawall Threatens to Leave Goleta Beach High and Dry

January 29, 2003 by Christine Underwood Aaron Gillman Deanna Kavanaugh-Jones

In April 2000, students from I.V. Surfrider and the A.S. Environmental Affairs Board rallied together to oppose the seawall being constructed at Goleta Beach.
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Survey Says: Bitter North County Resident Is a Sore Loser

January 29, 2003 by Tom Beers

Mr. Ruhge bemoans the legislation and voting outcomes that have occurred in Santa Barbara County due to student voting. He concludes by urging students to vote absentee at their parents' homes.
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