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Run Over

September 20, 2002 by Staff

The Chancellor's Special Advisory Committee on Parking handed over a recommendation to Chancellor Yang this summer, calling for the instatement of weekend and night parking fees.
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Homecomings and Shortcomings

September 20, 2002 by Marisa Lagos

When I arrived in Siena this June, I spoke barely a word of Italian and knew virtually nothing about the place I had chosen to spend my summer.
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Red Tape: New School Year Brings New School Year Resolutions

September 20, 2002 by Josh Braun

I was all set to write an informative column this week, when at the last minute someone stole my idea for the staff editorial (See upper left). Bastards.
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

September 20, 2002 by Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

There seem to be three broad categories of signs: the vitally important, the theoretically useful and the utterly useless.
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Missing Car Turns Up at Towing Company; Police Suspected

September 20, 2002 by Cory Anthony

Perhaps it's just my naivet
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Hungry, Hungry Opinion

August 28, 2002 by Staff

The Opinion page is a hungry beast, and without you, it would be nothing. It dwells here in the middle of the Daily Nexus, five days a week, ranging from an anorexic to a plump four-page spread.
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Please, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

August 28, 2002 by Staff

I am the Weatherhuman - a faceless, genderless entity whose job it is to defend the populace, or at least make them laugh until it doesn't hurt anymore.
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CC to UC Ain’t Nothing but a Heartbreak, Baby

August 28, 2002 by Matthew Kustura

Of all the transfers I have made in Santa Barbara, such as transferring a 12-pack of Natural Ice from the liquor store to my stomach, or transferring myself to the beach, the transfer from SBCC to the...
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Living Without Vowels: Welcome to Fantasy Isla Vista

August 28, 2002 by Steven Ruszczycky

I've worked summer Orientation for the past two years, and I could bet my paltry paycheck on the fact that a good number - if not the majority - of freshmen made their way down to I.V. at night to sne...
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Drink Your Way to a Higher Education in the UCSB Residence Halls

August 28, 2002 by Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Now, we don't know about you, but here at the Nexus we prefer our fish kippered, so here's the official Life in the Dorms Drinking Game.
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The College of Creative Studies May Be Small, but It Knows How to Educate

August 28, 2002 by Stacy Redd

When I learned about the College of Creative Studies, where autonomy abounds and no one will tell you what do even if you ask them, I knew it was going to be just what I needed.
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Inside Isla Vista’s Mess

June 26, 2002 by Steven Ruszczycky

Of the different properties Val walked me through, this house was the dirtiest. All the other properties fluctuated between slightly messy, a little dust and a small hole here and there, to sparkling ...
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Working-class Zero

June 26, 2002 by Staff

Before deciding what to do with my vacation, I asked the editor in chief how much I would be paid for this summer issue of the Nexus.
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Slouching Away From Bedlam

June 26, 2002 by Staff

It's become fashionable now to rage against anything that has the name "David Attias" attached to it.
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Those Transient Blues

June 26, 2002 by Stacy Redd

As someone who has vacated a residence upwards of three times now, I am aware of exactly one good thing about the process of moving: You get to eat out, or, at the very least, go to the grocery store ...
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