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Bearing Bad News: The Regrets of Delivery

March 2, 2001 by Staff

Some days I really hate my job. It's an easy job. I just deliver newspapers. You know, like the Daily Nexus.
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Candlelight Vigil Allows People to Share Emotions

March 1, 2001 by Vicky N. Leung

Beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Storke Plaza, we will join together in a time for remembrance and reflection.
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MADD Offers Advice for Stuents Who Are Grieving

March 1, 2001 by Frank Hamilton

This process must be faced, and the grief worked through if there is to be any resolution to your feelings. The pain will subside.
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Wake Up and Smell Your Spectacle Society

February 28, 2001 by David Downs

The rain comes down in a halo of streetlight amber. Thousands of students stand silently in the road weeping. Behind the silence, a dozen power generators hum the TV stations' live feeds.
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Column: Students Should Have Say in Elections Code

February 28, 2001 by Mahader Tesfai A.S. President

The new tally system is a loophole to get around the A.S. constitutional amendment that states that student representatives shall be voted in by 50 percent plus one of the A.S. student membership.
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Mexico Fails to Acknowledge Its Los Negros History

February 28, 2001 by Lorenzzo Covarrubias

Mexican blacks have had a long and storied history in the country. Yet it is a story that is denied, not shared and officially obscured.
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We Must Change Society’s View of ‘Ideal’ Body Shape

February 28, 2001 by Karen Booth

When the majority of women see a "beautiful" model, they wonder, "why can't I look like that?"
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Counting Calories – Personal Health and Well-Being Are More Important Than Losing Weight

February 28, 2001 by Lynnae Pedrotti

By the end of my first year at UCSB, I had gone from 120 pounds to 130 pounds and then down to 106 pounds. I was scared.
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Eating Disorders Are Just as Serious for Men

February 28, 2001 by Staff

So, maybe a man skips a meal and has a PowerBar instead; perhaps he wants to get rid of "excess" fat, so he throws up after a meal or tries not to eat at all.
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Earnhardt’s Life Makes His Death No Less Sad

February 28, 2001 by Staff

I thought it was ridiculous for Downs to claim that Dale Earnhardt's death was not a tragedy and then try to justify his own speedy driving by claiming it is the American Way.
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A Letter to the Campus Community from Chancellor Henry Yang

February 27, 2001 by Staff

"On the streets of Isla Vista in those early morning hours Saturday, we witnessed some extraordinary examples of courage, compassion, and humanity."
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A Message from the Mother of Christopher Divis

February 27, 2001 by Staff

A message from Sally Jo Divis, the mother of one of the UCSB students killed in last Friday's fatal car accident in Isla Vista.
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A.S. It Is: Coping With a Momentary Action, a Permanent Scar

February 27, 2001 by Chris Hubbard and Mel Fabi

"Why?" I'm sure that I don't have to go any further for you to know that this question, being asked over and over again, is referring to the horrible tragedy that occurred over the weekend. Speculatio...
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‘Globalization’ Economically Exploits the Third World

February 27, 2001 by Brian Helme

What does any of this have to do with you? As the living and working conditions of Third World people are degraded, Third World people are pitted against us in the First World.
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Eating Disorder Awareness Week Educates Students

February 27, 2001 by Flynne Hustein

In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb. 26-March 2), I am asking fellow UCSB students to reconsider their dieting behaviors.
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