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Mother of homeless man reaches out to Daily Lobo
November 28Editor, With humility, I am writing this letter to express deep and sincere regret of the situation involving my son, Arnold Woods.
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Dr. Peg’s Prescription
Peggy Spencer | November 23Thanksgiving traditionally kicks off a season of feasting. At least for some of us, there will be plenty of opportunities to overindulge in the next month.
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Players, public should be easier on ref
Juan Labreche | November 23I heard a lot of scathing comments from fans Sunday night regarding Mohamed Ibrahim, the center referee for Sunday night’s NCAA men’s soccer tournament second round match-up between 10th seed UNM and unseeded Duke.
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Desks exemplify wasteful spending
Devon Stevens | November 23A few semesters ago, in the name of cutting costs, several departments lost their telephones. The rationale was that most communication between professors, students and administrators these days is done by email and phones can be eliminated altogether.
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Wooley’s Weekly Wisdom
Ryan Wooley | November 22Q: How should I tackle a ‘college of’ application (containing an exam, multiple essays, letters of recommendation, etc)?
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Republicans blame failed economy on wrong man
November 22Editor, As an alumnus of UNM, I need to respond to the inane article published in the Daily Lobo on Nov. 8, ““UNM group condemns (un)Occupy at teach-in.”
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Masturbation key to self-knowledge
Hunter Riley | November 21I wanted to change things up a little bit and write a column for those of you who aren’t having sex and want to keep it that way.
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Skate column advocates cavity search and seizure
November 21I am a female UNM student. I also happen to ride my longboard around from time to time. It is much easier to do so during the summer semester because there are fewer people around to clog the sidewalks and to take ransom.
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Ominous art show we all agreed to love
Eva Avenue/ Daily Lobo Guest Columnist | November 18You can do any number of things to make some material a work of art. You can burn it, erase it, fill it, hang it, stretch it, cut it, tape it, paint it, lick it, glaze it, draw it, break it, find it, publish it, hide it, make a series…
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Don’t hate the skaters, hate the wheels
Devon Stevens | November 18There is a big problem on campus. You have probably noticed this yourself, but skateboards abound on campus.
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Mistakes provide opportunity to learn
November 17The lighter side of grading papers is always the Freudian slips, where students write stuff that makes some sort of sense but is obviously not what they meant.
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New bill censors Internet, must be stopped now
Chris Quintana | November 17Readers, These words “engage in, enable or facilitate copyright infringement,” could shut down the Internet.
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Dr. Peg’s Prescription
November 16I got injured playing defense in recreational soccer last weekend. Fell on my ribs trying — unsuccessfully — to prevent a goal. It got me thinking about pain. Hey, I figured it was better than dwelling on our defeat.
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College graduates use knowledge to do evil
November 16Editor, Are most college graduates better world citizens than minimum-wage U.S. workers who never finished high school? No! Most college graduates consume far more, pollute far more, travel far more, cause far more global climate chaos and pay far more federal income tax to wage war! When Gandhi was asked what worried him most, he replied, “the hardness of heart of the educated.” I do not want a bigger slice of the U.S.
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Wooley’s Weekly Wisdom
November 15Hey Lobos! We are happy to introduce our newest columnist and advice giver, Ryan Wooley. His column will be a weekly feature.
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Put your ambition and skills to the test, for pay
Chris Quintana | November 15Readers, haters and anyone else who has turned to the opinion section today: You might have seen fliers or ads for the first ever Daily Lobo Open House.
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Lies are the sad truth of reporting
Jason Darensburg | November 14We’ve all heard the story about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, right? “I can’t tell a lie, Pa; you know I can’t tell a lie.
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UNM Conservatives’ dire agenda for U.S. is honest
November 14Editor, I’d like to thank Donald Gluck and the UNM Republicans. They made it clear at the SUB teach-in that many conservative Republicans on campus think the (un)Occupy movement is “awful,” and that occupation for free speech, after a period of five weeks, must end.
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Brit embraces American English
Amy Dicketts | November 11Imagine, if you can, that your whole life you had been deceived. Tricked into thinking you were something you weren’t. And then suddenly, nineteen years into this deception the truth comes to light in a cruel and painful manner.
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School work load frightens yet rewards grad student
Carrie Cutler | November 11Ever see a movie where the camera is placed in front of a runaway truck? The careening hunk of metal swerves right and left as your heart hammers in your chest and ends up hitting and covering the camera, with a horrific crunch and squeal, bouncing to a rest while you take a breath. For graduate students, that’s the pace of a semester. This is the part of the semester where I, and probably many other graduate students, have to grit our teeth and think about something else.
