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Is There Something Wrong With the News-Press?

The most visible problem with Isla Vista is the Santa Barbara News-Press' coverage of it. In a series of biased and erroneous stories, the paper has portrayed our town as a swill bucket brimming over ...
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BioBoring 2001- Hippies Mount a Lousy PR Campaign

"It's a shite state of affairs Buhler - a shite state of affairs."Buhler, my wingman, scanned the thousands of empty seats in Balboa Park's Starlight Bowl and agreed.
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Feces and Flowers … Ahh, Springtime

Brilliant tulips to IVTV for filming A.S. President Brian Hampton in a state of drunkenness somewhere between "blitzed" and "trashed." Tulips also to Hampton for demonstrating why he holds the copyrig...
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If I Get A Little Tired, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead …

Medical studies say cognitive ability drops 25 percent for every 24 hours without sleep. The areas of the brain hardest hit are always the higher mental functions like critical thought and analysis.
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China Tries To Pave Over Tibet’s History and People With Lies

It seems very clear to me that Jiefeng Zhou is repeating the propaganda that the Communist Chinese government has been repeating for decades.
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Nexus Fails Its Readers By Ignoring Motives Behind Isla Vista Brawl

These stories have been one-sided, yet you still print this mediocre reporting which threatens to demolish the dream of building a community free of racial prejudice.
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The Heart-Wrenching Tale of a Heart-Wrenching Blockbuster Film

The Jerry Bruckheimer film "Pearl Harbor" hit all of its projected earnings this weekend, and Americans are over $75,000,000 patriotic.
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Filtering Out the Propaganda of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

I am an international student from China and came to the United States last year. I believe it is my responsibility to point out those who mislead the public on the issue of Tibet.
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America’s Iron Hand of Optimism and Assurance

The sneering pseudo-saviors are no longer all blond and blue-eyed. Some have very dark complexions. Regardless, though, they all ride white chargers.
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Bush, Davis Act Poorly on The Energy Issue’s Stage

For the most part, I am unhappy with Bush's stance of turning a blind eye to California, and with what is occurring.
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UCSB’s Students, Paper Handle Horowitz Well

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the Nexus for this week's fair and thorough coverage of David Horowitz's speaking event this week ...
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Fear and Boring

I take in David Horowitz in all his trollish elegance as he squats behind the podium ranting about how all my professors are crooked leftists.
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The Bigotry, Misconceptions Behind the Ten Points

In his opinion, Horowitz makes 10 points. All of them are either historically inaccurate, ridiculous, lies and/or outright racist.
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The Weatherbook … You Know You Want It

Over the past few weeks, I have spent countless hours of intense drinking and half-assed planning (I pulled my first UCSB all-nighter on Tuesday) to bring you 104 pages of pure Weatherlove.
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Intolerant Liberals Are No Better Than Bigots

The left-wing socialist progressives in this country have so infused their viewpoints with the concept of "good" that any idea contrary to their own is by nature "bad."
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