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November 5, 2002

The Voting Game

By Staff

Yesterday, I played the voting game. The objective: Make your way to your polling place, convince the poll workers that you are not an absentee voter, and cast your ballot.

November 4, 2002

Words, Words, Words

By Staff

With Halloween comes inebriation and the inevitable attempt to write term papers drunk. In this state, the weathercavemates often wax philosophical.

November 1, 2002

Winged Death

By Staff

With all the scary costumes, large men and frightening out-of-towners in I.V. last night, I ended up getting attacked - by a snowy plover.

October 30, 2002

Step Away From the Car

By Staff

The weatherneighbor

October 30, 2002

Happy Halloween

By Staff

Halloween, midterms, and Parents' Weekend. There is truly something evil about the season. At the very least, it will get things over with.

October 29, 2002

Trick or Treat?

By Staff

They scheduled Parents' Weekend on Halloween weekend this year. No joke. Just the hilarious, awful truth.

October 28, 2002

McWorld Series

By Staff

I was an Angels fan as a kid. If you like rooting for the underdog, there's nothing like a baseball franchise that hasn't won a series since 1961.

October 25, 2002

All Right, I See Your Point

By Staff

My professor has an affectation. He carries around an eight-foot pointer, which he waves with a flourish and has taken to resting on his groin while answering questions.

October 24, 2002

SPAM All Around

By Staff

One of the weathercavemates recently figured out for the first time how to delete messages on a U-Mail account. There were over 400 e-mails in the inbox.

October 23, 2002

Get a Chest X-ray

By Staff

I sat next to the coughing guy in class yesterday. Every class has one this time of year. He'll be there 'til February, occasionally trading shifts with the coughing girl.

October 22, 2002

Essay

By Staff

I am writing a paper for a certain social science class tonight and I seem to have lost the assignment sheet. Rather than researching, I have developed an exciting new social science theory. I call it the "one paper theo...

October 21, 2002

A Bush by Any Other Name

By Staff

Do you remember when you were a kid and had to learn the difference between Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt? Or that Grover Cleveland's terms weren't consecutive?

October 18, 2002

Ow.

By Staff

Weather-update: I have discovered the purpose behind the ill-placed muff-thumping, sack-attacking turnstiles in the library.

October 17, 2002

Three Weeks, I’m Going Insane…

By Staff

There is a conspiracy afoot. Before the year began, all the professors and TAs at this school decided to assign papers for the same three days.

October 16, 2002

Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho!

By Staff

Every year the government spends $14,000 for every illegal immigrant and $24,000 for every prison inmate in California. You know, you'd think we could pay University staff enough to live on. But I guess not.

October 15, 2002

Yummy. Sorta.

By Staff

This year brought with it a new phenomenon: dining commons assignments. The first time I ate fried chicken in the dorms I found a feather. And then there was the worm in the potato. It only got worse from there.