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Knick-Knack, Paddy-Whack

January 15, 2003 by

The other day I came home from a hard afternoon of shopping for Thor's Tip-Top Thunderbolts and Ten-Trailer Tornados only to find that the weather cavemate had carelessly left out some cream-filled co...
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Is That a Pole in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

January 15, 2003 by Beth Van Dyke

I was watching the movie "Striptease" over break and I realized two things immediately: a) "Why the hell am I watching this?" and b) "Wow, I've always wanted to twirl around on a pole like that."
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Students Shouldn’t Stand for Fee Increase

January 15, 2003 by Marissa Brown

As you may already know, just this past month the UC Regents approved a quarterly tuition increase of $135 to take effect this spring. Now they must decide whether to raise it an additional $795 for t...
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Patriot Act Is There to Protect Your Rights, Not to Shred Them

January 15, 2003 by Bill Ryder

By limiting access to our financial institutions, the Patriot Act, I hope, will help dry up the flow of funds to terrorists from within and outside the country.
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Students Should Know the Facts When Talking About Their Heritage

January 15, 2003 by Omri Cohen

Palestine has not existed for almost 55 years. Even then, it was not a country, just a British-owned territory called the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Think: Wednsday January 15, 2003

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Drugstore Cowboy: Some Kid Kills His Sister

January 14, 2003 by Cory Anthony

It's video games, like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They're becoming so realistic that they distort the minds of young gamers, and the idea of taking a handgun to the head of an old lady for a few buc...
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It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood…

January 14, 2003 by

I went up on my roof for the first time the other day and it just so happens that I have a perfect view of the neighbor's yard.
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The Road to a New Highway Is Paved with Greed and Green

January 14, 2003 by Harry Nelson

The city of Goleta has plans to put stoplights on Highway 217, aka Ward Memorial Boulevard, the road that connects the east gate of the UCSB campus with Highway 101.
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Starving Socialist Island

January 13, 2003 by Henry Sarria

Cuba is up shit creek and there's no paddle in sight. It truly is an economic disaster that came and went, compliments of "El Lider Supremo," Fidel Castro and his little brother Raul.
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Good Grub

January 13, 2003 by Staff

When Columbus sailed in the 1400's (and yes, I know he didn't discover shit...), he and his crew took to eating meals at night around halfway through the voyage.
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Living Without Vowels: Simian Antics Drive I.V. Residents Ape

January 13, 2003 by Steven Ruszczycky

Scott is a good kid, even though he smokes cigarettes, cusses and is 27 years old. It's hard not to think of him as a child though because the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome that afflicts him has set his mind...
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Genes for All Seasons

January 9, 2003 by Josh Braun

It began in the May of 1985 when Robert Sinsheimer, who currently works at UCSB, called a workshop at UC Santa Cruz at which scientists discussed for the first time the possibility of mapping the huma...
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Readin’, Writin’, ‘Rithmatic

January 9, 2003 by Staff

I have a bone to pick with the quarter system. Depending on the courses I take, I probably have somewhere between 100 and 300 pages of reading to do per week, per class.
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Pushing the Envelope

January 9, 2003 by Staff

Postage goes up because of people like me. I only buy stamps out of absolute necessity, and I refuse to purchase an entire book of them for any reason.
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