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A Knight’s Tale: A Few Parting Stabs From an Outgoing Senior

May 23, 2001 by Joseph Milbury

Joke: What is worse than an alcoholic? A Gauchoholic! What is worse than a Gauchoholic? A Gauchoholic as Associated Students president!
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Lily-Livered Newspaper Hogties Speech

May 23, 2001 by Staff

Recently, the Daily Nexus refused to publish an ad submitted by David Horowitz titled, "10 Reasons Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - And Racist Too."
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A Thank You Note to Campus Groundskeepers

May 23, 2001 by Staff

For want of a more direct way to express my gratitude, I would like to use this letter to thank the gardeners at UCSB for their incessant work on campus.
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Not Seeing Race Blinds You to Injustice, History

May 23, 2001 by Staff

Continually, we see articles and commentary that support the racist construction of "color blindness."
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Revoking SP-1: Choosing Color Before Capability

May 22, 2001 by Staff

Have you heard about the UC Regents lifting the ban on Affirmative Action? Martin Luther King Jr. himself would be disgusted.
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ABC – Almost as Bad as Ccccccccccccccc

May 22, 2001 by Staff

A long time ago, the Weatherroomates and I decided not to get cable. In a normal town, we would get four semi-clear channels and two squiggily ones.
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Regents Must Demand Higher Standards From BP Amoco

May 22, 2001 by Shlomy Kattan

The Regent's failure to vote in favor of human rights and the environment is an insult to humanity that crosses all lines of identity, be they racial, ethnic, national, religious, philosophical or pol...
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Increasing Ocean Reserves Will Benefit Fish, Fishing Community

May 22, 2001 by Staff

This past Sunday afternoon, the first annual Concert for the Coast went off in Anisq' Oyo' Park in Isla Vista.
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Res Hall Director’s Denial of Bathroom Privileges is Unfair

May 22, 2001 by Staff

As I was coming back from dinner Tuesday, May 15, I noticed a guy who lives at the end of my hall kick the bathroom door and try unsuccessfully to move the door handle.
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Sexual Health Peers Educate About STDs, Birth Control

May 22, 2001 by Staff

UC-STD. Heard that one before?
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Happy birthday Mr. T!

May 21, 2001 by Staff

Yes, Mr. T turns 49 years old today.
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How the University Buried the Broida Bikepath

May 21, 2001 by Jim Dalton

I am writing in response to Tye Simpson's letter (The Reader's Voice, "Design Review Committee Backs Bikepath Concept," May 15). I found the letter to be a misrepresentation of the facts.
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Unanswered Questions Should Euthanize the Death Penalty

May 21, 2001 by Steven Ruszczycky

America's latest incarnation of evil, Timothy McVeigh, has had his execution stayed after yet another screw up by the FBI, following in the trail of Ruby Ridge and Waco.
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Put a Sock on It – Learn About Condoms and Healthy, Safe Sex

May 21, 2001 by Staff

Two years ago at my family reunion, my 16-year-old cousin confided in me that she was dating the boy across the street without her parents' knowledge.
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