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Increase in Parking Fees Will Create Unsafe Conditions for All Students

May 7, 2002 by Eitan Loewenstein

I'm very disappointed in our school after hearing about a new policy to begin charging students to park on campus during weekend and night hours.
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Thanks to Isla Vista Residents for Not Making Fools of Themselves

May 7, 2002 by Patrick J. McKinley

Please convey our thanks to all the people on Sabado Tarde last Friday during the jury visit. The respect they showed the jurors and the memory of the students killed and injured was unmistakable.
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I May Be A Lame Duck, But Now Everyone Else Is Too

May 6, 2002 by Jonathan Kalinski

The events of last Wednesday's Associated Students Legislative Council meeting illustrate what I already knew but what many got their first lesson in: how to play hardball politics.
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Weather: Sic Semper Tirannus!

May 6, 2002 by Staff

My house was invaded by a spy in the form of a small dog.
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Nexus Should Criticize Defense’s Delivery and Not Its Content

May 6, 2002 by Jose F. Moreno

What they say is true. In Isla Vista, there are burning couches, keg beer and whatnot. Here is a sampling of whatnot‚ compiled by the Daily Nexus:
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The Sports Fee Failure Means the Death of UCSB. Yeah, Right.

May 6, 2002 by Brett D. Gibson

I could not agree more with Jennifer Rudy's assessment of the A.S. elections (The Reader's Voice, "UCSB Students Dropped the Prestigious Ball During Elections," May 2, 2002, Daily Nexus).
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Clowning Around

May 3, 2002 by Staff

Out-going Gauchoholic Leggies at Wednesday night's Leg Council provided more fun for Daily Nexus reporters than a massive clown orgy, it was also an act of pure spite and bad form.
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I’ll Be a Millionaire

May 3, 2002 by Staff

Scientists recently announced the development of Radio-Controlled Rats(tm)(c)(r), rats with electrodes in their brains that can be made to perform different tasks.
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No One Is Laughing at Racist Abercrombie & Fitch Shirts

May 3, 2002 by Christine Bai

As an Asian-American, I was pretty pissed off when I read the recent articles on Abercrombie & Fitch featuring negative, stereotypical images of Asians on their new line of T-shirts.
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Wily Vipers Burn Associated Students Behind Them

May 3, 2002 by Brendan Buhler

In tactics reminiscent of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov's, Representative Martin T. Doyle is burning every financial field and shooting every cash cow that SAC forces could find useful, and a great deal be...
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Night, Weekend Parking Fees Are Unjust and We Must Fight the University on This

May 3, 2002 by Sara Martinovich

Did I read correctly in April 29th's Nexus that UCSB has found a new way to swindle money out of the student body? Please tell me it is not true that "Parking Services will charge $2 per night/weekend...
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There’s at Least One Reader Who Enjoys Kent’s ‘Wednesday Hump’ Sex Columns

May 3, 2002 by Jay Bridges

I would like you to know that I personally enjoy Sarah Kent's sex columns. I actually look forward to them. I do find it puzzling that anyone can really take offense to what she writes about
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Isla Vista on Trial

May 1, 2002 by Staff

Isla Vista has never killed anyone with a car or made anyone take drugs. The lawyers for David Attias - a former UCSB student who hit five people with a car, killing four of them - claim I.V. is respo...
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Give Em’ a Hardy Cheer Again, Hurrah!

May 1, 2002 by Staff

I made a decision to conquer senioritis. As the weeks go on it has become harder and harder to roll out of bed and face the last class of my undergraduate education (being taken pass/fail).
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Let It Fee

May 1, 2002 by Staff

Fee increases are a lot like diarrhea. They're both ugly, sometimes painful and most of us wish they never happened. Whether we like it or not, though, both serve a purpose.
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