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Thin Line Between Drugs and Hate

April 8, 2004 by

Next, a little bit of hate for the finest bunch of assholes on campus - the parking Nazis. You paper my truck every time I forget to display my permit.
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Bedhead Diaries: White Guys, Yellow Fever; Dating’s Just Not Easy

April 8, 2004 by Meghan Palma

People from back home sometimes ask me what it's like being a minority in a community that is dominated by white people. I usually smile sweetly and respond, "I don't see race. It's just not an issue ...
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What Is It, Exactly, That Affects All of You People?

April 8, 2004 by Susan Landgraff

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It Affects Me is part of a campuswide campaign to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault in our community. Don't think you're affected? One woman in fou...
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This Is America, Folks: Even Offensive Speech Is Protected

April 8, 2004 by Josh Rodine

I'm deeply and constantly troubled by the sentiment expressed by Christine Bai in her column ("Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays" Daily Nexus, April 6)
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UCSB Administrators Could Use Some Motherly Advice

April 8, 2004 by Dianna Hosley

Didn't your mother tell you to put things back where you found them? Since Fall, I think - I don't even know how long it's been - we have been without bike racks at the UCen.
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Lend Me Your Helmet

April 7, 2004 by

On Tuesday I had a guest lecturer in my Sports Appreciation class (I figure my last quarter of college is a great time to challenge myself) talking about "cycling for fitness.
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Nookie With Neighbors

April 7, 2004 by Kate Rice

Young, privileged people in college communities are always seeking instant gratification. Most would say that such situations create an ideal that we can always have what we want whenever we want it, ...
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King, Parks, Newsom: Pioneers for Change

April 7, 2004 by Neil Visalvanich

In Nicholas Romero's opinion piece on gay marriage, he claims that because California state law explicitly prohibits gay marriage, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's issuance of marriage licenses to g...
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Knock: Welcome to UCSB; Now Leave

April 6, 2004 by Drew Atkins

Seeing the herds of casually dressed adults and bright-eyed youngsters making their way through campus, I feel threatened. I don't like these people. They bother me. I want to see them gone.
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Don’t Trust Infomercials When Dealing With Cops

April 6, 2004 by Mark Signa

I got a speeding ticket and the cops were using radar. I read the book on how to fight radar and it seemed pretty easy, but when I got to court, the judge wouldn't let me ask all of the questions that...
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Art School Expels Overly Creative and Offensive Student

April 6, 2004 by Lauren Girard

When someone brings up the subject of suppression of free speech, I tend to think of right-wing hatemongers who want to use their Second Amendment rights to shoot the First Amendment in the back of th...
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Details Magazine Defames Asians, Gays

April 6, 2004 by Christine Bai

I was extremely sickened by this month's issue of Details magazine. In the April 2004 issue, author Whitney McNally writes a nasty article about Asian men with a title that reads "Gay or Asian?".
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Insiders Notes on Iranian Politics and All of Its Dangers

April 6, 2004 by Sam Kamyans

It is of obvious consequence that the events on 9/11 rendered the world a different place. Many of the actions the United States has taken, whether unilaterally or with international support, can be d...
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Skid Plaza

April 5, 2004 by

Did you see the destruction around Storke Plaza after this weekend? There was trash everywhere. It looked more like a place to get heroin than a place to relax and study.
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