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Consumers, Not Producers, Are the Key to Undoing Globalization

Protesting the WTO, the multinational conglomerates (i.e. The Gap, Inc.) and the plague of environmental destruction wrought by industry, though ideologically honorable, is futile.
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Lewd Acts of Five Men Terrorize Woman in I.V.

My anger quickly turned to sheer rage when three of these males jumped on the front of my car and began licking my window, making obscene sexual gestures and banging their fists against my vehicle.
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I’m the Coolest Kid in School

All those other assheads running for A.S. president are apparently trying to turn this school-wide popularity contest into some kind of political election.
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Abortion Opresses Women

As a pro-life feminist, I speak in a voice rarely heard amid the din of American politics. A world of soundbites and slogans, it has little time to explore the complexities of pro-life feminism, but t...
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Road Rage

A campus project choked to death in university red tape is certainly nothing new. However, sometimes the frustratingly slow pace of bureaucratic machinery manages to surpass all expectations. Case in ...
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Screenwriters Prove Pen is Mightier Than Hollywood

Pop quiz, hot shot, what do the following have in common: Barney's Existential Journey, Bill and Ted's Hella Cool Trip to the Library, and as much Reality TV as you can stand?
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‘Concerned Taxpayers’ Seek to Deny I.V. Inclusion in Cityhood

Recently, at a dinner party with friends in Goleta, an interesting question was asked that left me like a deer in the headlights, trying to find an answer. What does it take to get the Isla Vista comm...
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A.S. Election Endorsements

The Daily Nexus tells you who we think are the best candidates in this years Associated Students election.
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The Mysterious Mipple

Life is full of mysteries. ... Who shot JFK? How do they get that cream filling into a Twinkie?
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Bush Deserves to Bathe in His Own Toxic Rain

George W. Bush is far too committed to Global Warming to just sit back and let it happen. He's willing to produce as much hot air as it takes. His latest emission of noxious gas was his claim that he'...
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Next Time Won’t You Sing With Me

Given the fact that today is 4/20, the Weathercorrespondents and I have compiled the "stoner alphabet" for your numb-minded pleasure.
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Myth Shrouds the Truth Behind Sexual Assaults

A woman reported to the UCSB police that she was assaulted in a remote parking lot at UCSB at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18. Upon further investigation, she retracted her story.
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A.S. Election Indifference

The onslaught of signs over the past two weeks illustrates the candidates' campaign philosophies of advertising themselves, not their theories on the future of the student government.
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Ooooh

Spring is here, and you know what that means. Untalented skateboarders.
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Professor Attempts to Suppress Student Speech

As I spoke out on a megaphone to the crowds of students passing by South Hall just before noon on Monday morning, you emerged from a group of men walking past me and shouted in my face to "Shut that f...
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