Opinion
The organizers chose this theme for the conference because we believe that education is a right, regardless of one's socioeconomic status, gender, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, and/or ability...
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The events of the past week have touched us all. We have learned much about our community and ourselves over these last several days.
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I am writing in response to the persistent and blatant attacks on the upcoming election code.
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After one occurred over the weekend, it would have been nice to look toward local leaders with faith in their abilities, but, personally, this was not possible.
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Transform a seaside community/college town into a college town/seaside community, and what do you get? More drunken fights and rudeness, loss of neighborhood quiet zones, more apartment fires and more...
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As we watched the ghastly images on the grainy home video tape play on CNN, the full impact of the carnage started to hit me, and my friends could see it. Very seldom do I cry or does my voice choke, ...
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Why are you overshadowing a week of reflection that should be set aside strictly for mourning the tragic loss of four innocent victims with substances we don't even know were involved in the accident?
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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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Beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Storke Plaza, we will join together in a time for remembrance and reflection.
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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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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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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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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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When the majority of women see a "beautiful" model, they wonder, "why can't I look like that?"
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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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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
