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UCSB’s Sidewalks Are Not the Play Things of Drivers

Campus walkways should enjoy the same status as city sidewalks. One does not see cars and trucks on State Street sidewalks in downtown Santa Barbara, yet our walkways are sometimes more crowded than m...
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Giblets and Gravy

A well-deserved turkey to all the professors who canceled class on Wednesday. Students deserve a break and a chance to beat the holiday traffic.
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Gobble Gobble, Baby

The Weatherhuman was going to indulge his/her creativity in a pre-Thanksgiving haiku but forgot how many syllables go where. Funny how Googling "haiku" gets erotic haiku in just a few clicks.
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A.S. It Is: When Budgets Go Bad

As the entire UCSB campus has been made duly aware, Associated Students is in a budget crisis. There are groups within Associated Students that are quietly continuing business as usual and doing some ...
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And Not a Soul in Sight

It's like the campus that feared sundown. If you're reading this, you're a more dedicated student than the Weatherhuman, who has fled class for his Weatherhome for Weatherturkey with all the Weatherfi...
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This Thanksgiving, Remember: Be Thankful for Hairy Heinies

Thanksgiving marks the return of home and everything familiar that comes along with home. Including your ex.
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Drugstore Cowboy: Thank You for the Culture, America

My sense of cultural heritage is entirely contained in the lefsa I ignore on the table every Thanksgiving to honor my Norwegian ancestry.
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For Mother Nature’s Sake

The United States' dependency on petroleum threatens our very own back yard here in Santa Barbara.
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And Another Bird, And Another Bird

The phrase 'To kill two birds with one stone' haunted me all weekend. Has anyone ever seen anybody kill one bird with one stone?
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G.E.’s Help Keep Ethnic History and Culture Alive in Education

UCSB, listen up: From the time we are old enough to watch and understand TV, through elementary, middle and high school we are taught the history of white America.
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The Lab Rat: How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Fission

Shape charges are specialized explosives molded into special shapes that control the direction of their explosion. The directional force of these explosions results in incredible precision.
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Why Worry About G.E.’s When No One Here Can Read or Write?

Recent opinion articles in the Nexus have convinced me that UCSB's general education requirements need to change. Though I'd be happy to see the non-Western culture requirement go, that's not what I'm...
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The Bigger Picture

The staff editorial titled "G.E., I Wonder," (Daily Nexus, Nov. 18, 2002) shouldn't have been written. Your focus is wrong, and it was amusing to see the author think it was fair and accurate in its r...
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How to Write a Term Paper

It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, a time for peace, unity and big-ass term papers. At one time or another, everyone has written a three-page term paper that needed to be a five-page term paper or ...
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No Buts About It, Ass Grabbing Is Harassment

In response to "If I Don't Mind When Someone Grabs My Ass, Why Should You?" (Daily Nexus, Nov. 18, 2002), harassment is harassment, harassment leads to assault, assault leads to rape.
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