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Harsh Politics Harbor Sexism, Racism and Homophobia

Ana Rizo and Eneri Rodriguez, your external vice presidents for local affairs and for statewide affairs respectively, recently had their offices robbed and vandalized by some racist, supremacist, gree...
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Forcing Grad Students to Buy UCSB’s Insurance Demeans Us

These ideas come in response to the issue of the graduate student health insurance hike under discussion at present, being voted on by the Graduate Students Association representatives.
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It Affects Me: Part 6: Friends Survive Together

Eva called me about a week ago. When I realized who it was, I didn't really even want to talk to her. I felt I had put so much effort into helping her, but her ignorance and denial were really startin...
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Despite What the Nexus Says, Students Had a Voice on Parking

I am writing in response to your editorial on parking, the Daily Nexus criticizes A.S. reps for not attending the most recent Chancellor's Special Advisory Committee on Parking public forum.
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Well Blow Me Down, Oral Sex Is Just a Tool to Avoid Guilt Trips

You'd be surprised at the topics that pop up around my grandmother's dinner table sometimes. We were discussing my cousin - a man slut if there ever was one - and his new girlfriend.
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Hey Undergraduates, Shut It. TAs Need Parking More Than You

TAs are poor and are more important than students. That's right, I said it, you know it's true.
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Laundry Merry-Go-Round

My crotch is damp right now. Yesterday, I spent $8.75 of the froggypopfund to entertain my clothes at the Laundry Fun Center (“the laundromat” to the fucking idiot). I poured in some deter...
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Hot Time in the Ol’ County

At a recent meeting of the Fire Chief's Association of Santa Barbara County, chiefs from several agencies and departments discussed the upcoming fire season and what we might expect.
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Living Without Vowels: Same-sex Schools Are Sure to Save Society

Thankfully, our good, born-again Christian President Bush decided that a return to Victorian sensibility is just what this nation needs. His first target: public schools.
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The Red Tape: Student Vocabularies are Shit

As a general rule, I try not to cuss - not in my speech, not in my columns. Am I perfect on either count? Fuck no. But today, I'll make an exception to prove a point.
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Nexus Should Cover Club Sports Like My Rowing Team

I think that the Daily Nexus' coverage of club sports is pathetic. Everyday readers look at the sports page and are constantly reminded of how much our NCAA Division I Teams suck ass.
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Always Bundle up Your Genitals, There is Disease, Infection in I.V.

Does everyone in I.V. have sex? And if they do are they being safe about it? No, not everyone is having sex, in fact 17 percent of UCSB students do not engage in oral, anal or vaginal sexual intercour...
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Feces Finders

It's a shitty job but it's good that someone's going to do it. Some malicious fecal matter is adrift in our oceans and now we're going to know how much is really there.
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More Peanuts for the Masses

You know the big boxes that arrived in Storke Plaza Thursday?
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