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Osama bin Laden would bring much-needed leadership to UNM
April 11Editor, Have you noticed that the Walmart University flagship has sailed the educational seas rather erratically these days?
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Math lets us ask, ‘How many pancakes can fit into a Volvo?’
April 8Editor, The Daily Lobo published an opinion letter expressing one student’s frustration with the “rigid structure that forces all students to pass the same unnecessary courses” in order to get his degree.
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NM’s teachers have been chipping in for a long time
April 8Editor, I see in Thursday’s Albuquerque Journal story, “University Budget Choices,” that Gov.
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Cars make us fat and sick; walking is a good doctor
April 8Editor, Ten years ago was the last time I rode in any car. I have owned no car since 1979. I had a driver’s license for 36 years, but I did not renew it when it expired in 2000.
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There is no legitimate reason to miss or arrive late to class
April 7Editor, I am a teacher’s assistant for a large lecture class. One of my responsibilities as a TA is to help the lecturer maintain a degree of classroom decorum that at this point should be second nature for students.
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Five freshmen will never spoil Coach Flanagan’s legacy
April 7Editor, In response to “Flanagan leaves after almost two decades,” the Daily Lobo did a great job in showing the University who Don Flanagan is and continues to be.
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Mussolini’s failed conquest should serve as a lesson
April 5Editor, The Western nations currently trying to bomb Libya into submission must not be familiar with Libyan history.
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Spit on your teachers for ruining America’s economy
April 5Editor, When the economy went belly up and millions of people lost their houses and their jobs, you can bet the teachers, their unions and their outrageous pensions were at fault. All the wealth in this country has been ripped off by greedy teachers who are sickly obsessed with their fantasy that people in this great land of ours need to be educated and that these ne’er-do-well educators actually need to be paid to teach their bullshit. What a joke. We have a bunch of these useless-eater teachers right here at Walmart U.
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It is my educational party, and I can attend if I want to
April 5Editor, I was 3 minutes late to my public speaking class this week because I forgot keys to my bike lock.
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Success in college is nonlinear
Nathan New | April 5I have to pass a math class in order to graduate. While I respect math and its precision, you could literally sink Albuquerque in the void that is my desire to work on math.
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GPSA presidential candidate wants to reform organization
April 5Editor, In running for GPSA president, I have not once referenced the current GPSA president, and the idea that I am running against her is confusing and inaccurate. I decided to run for GPSA president because I believe that GPSA needs more input from the student body.
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When PMS attacks, fight back
April 5You are in a bad mood all the time. You have no energy, and nothing is fun. You don’t want to spend time with anybody because all they do is make you mad.
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Alleged 9/11 mastermind just more smoke and mirrors
April 4Editor, The saying, “Things are not always what they seem” is most appropriate when speaking about the U.S.
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Life spent in service is well spent
Danny Hernandez | April 4If there isn’t a God, then Saturday was full of coincidences that boiled down to one succinct message: Life should be lived striving hard to make a difference for others’ betterment.
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GPSA presidential candidate could fix top-heavy structure
April 1Editor, The completion of the 2011 legislative session in Santa Fe is just the beginning of the new year for UNM.
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We can either fight wars or rebuild America’s economy
April 1Editor, What kind of leader would you like to be? Our involvement in Libya may not seem related to the health of our planet, but it brings up interesting issues.
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Be mindful of how you live every moment; save Earth
April 1Editor, If you truly desire happiness, become aware of what is truly happening in each moment. Immerse yourself in that and deal with it as best as you can and leave everything else to whatever is the Source of All That Is. Our species has two choices: 1) Refuse to mature to our potential, continue to divide into warring camps and play the juvenile game of “win/lose,” which makes us all losers and ensures that our species cannot survive.
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UNM is not a bargain, despite what administrators tell you
April 1Editor, I’m writing the nearly identical letter to one I wrote several years ago when a previous University president, upon announcing a tuition increase, earnestly commented that ”UNM really is a bargain — cheaper than most of its comparable state universities.” The problem with this statement, repeated over and over again by university administrators, is that New Mexico was, and still is, one of the poorest states in the union with high unemployment levels, even in good times. Furthermore, most of our employed citizens earn less for comparable jobs than their peers in other states.
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Why does Schmidly think NM families can pay tuition hike?
March 31Editor, President David Schmidly said it’s a misconception that New Mexican families cannot afford tuition increases.
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Legislators battled to protect environment during session
March 31Editor, During my work this legislative session as an Environment New Mexico intern, I saw firsthand an array of attacks undertaken against environmental regulations.
