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Write Your Slogans in Lamb’s Blood

April 15, 2002 by Staff

The Powers That Be have taken steps to smite this year's A.S. campaign. Last week humidity melted the tempera paint until all the candidate names were identical blurs. On Monday, 30 mph gales transf...
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Time to Vote for Some Women of Action

April 15, 2002 by Rukshana Singh

This year a group of four committed women are running as part of the Student Action Coalition slate along with a number of Legislative Council candidates.
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Living Without Vowels: Academic Writing Needs an Enema

April 15, 2002 by Steven Ruszczycky

I returned to the theory book in my lap and immediately felt disappointed with myself. I had fallen victim to the glorious illusion put forth by the devious nature of academic writing.
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Publicity Campaign Needs More Sensitivity

April 15, 2002 by Theo Baker

I just think it is lame for the Sherwood Players to use such weak verbal irony in order to catch attentions and thus sell some extra tickets.
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$45 a Year Keeps Student Health’s Doctors Near

April 15, 2002 by Beth Van Dyke

This Spring, Student Health is asking for a $3 increase to the undergraduate lock-in fee, bringing the total amount to $15. Student Health has not received a lock-in fee increase in over a decade.
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Millan and SAC are the Best Choice for UCSB

April 15, 2002 by Eneri Rodriguez

Of the three candidates running for this office, only one stands out in my mind as the candidate with passion, dedication and addiction to fighting for students' rights on this campus and statewide.
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The Candidate

April 12, 2002 by Staff

Some have doubted my ability to execute the duties of President, as I am a non-corporal entity. I touch nothing but myself, and my rantings in this ever-shrinking box are unfocused, self obsessed, and...
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The Sequining Sight of Campus Elections

April 12, 2002 by Brendan Buhler

It's election season on campus, which is sort of like figure skating season. You look up one day and say, "oh, that again." Like figure skating, the rules and point of the sport are vague, there's lot...
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Don’t Allow A.S. To Waste More Money

April 12, 2002 by Martin Doyle

All sorts of campus groups have also lined up to mobilize your support of the $24 fee hike. But do you really want to give A.S. more money? After all, this is an organization that squanders student mo...
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UCSB Students Should PAC Meetings

April 12, 2002 by Edward Collins

We have had some active participation by students after the presentations but much lower activity in the planning meetings. Sometimes I am the only student providing input and counterpoint.
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Give ’em the Chair

April 11, 2002 by Staff

People make a fuss over what professor teaches which class, never realizing what makes one lecture okay and another torture: the chairs.
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Happy Landings

April 11, 2002 by Staff

The planners for the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport want to add safety strips to their runways, a move backed by the FAA which would require shifting the strip 800-feet west of its current position a...
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Prevent Sexual Assault Before It Begins

April 11, 2002 by Stephanie Molen

Let's get something straight; sexual assault is not a byproduct of sexuality but a product of POWER. Sadly, most victims go through a process of blame. "What did I do? How could he assume that this wa...
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L.A. Story

April 10, 2002 by Staff

The weatherpet is suffering a midlife crisis. At three he is past his youth and has been reminded of his advancing age by a hernia and kidney stones.
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When Silence Speaks Louder Than Ignorance

April 10, 2002 by Sarah Kent

As a sex columnist, I'm sort of expected to cover a broad range of topics within the subject of "sex." Yet there is one area thus far I haven't touched on at all - homosexual, bisexual and transgender...
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