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Staff member: Be wary of HR’s cell phone upgrade offer
February 15Editor, Human Resources negotiated staff discounts with various cell-phone companies, including T-Mobile.
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Online forum hurls vicious attacks instead of opinions
February 15Editor, I am writing to remark on the hostile environment that has developed in the Daily Lobo’s online comments section.
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Graduate students ask state legislators for employee status
February 15Editor, I am writing to support SB 400, recognizing graduate assistants, teaching assistants, research assistants and project assistants as employees as introduced by Sen.
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Daily Lobo writer’s errors call into question veracity of work
February 15Editor, I submit this to you for your information. Andrew Beale has written a column with errors. I believe he needs a refresher class on journalistic integrity and proper research. Beale has two errors in, “NM could become New Arizona.” The first is regarding the number of murders in El Paso, Texas.
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Act of kindness is new legal high
February 15You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you do something nice? Well, guess what? There is science behind that sensation.
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ASUNM court wants to make government more accessible
February 14Editor, In my year and a half on the ASUNM Student Court, we have not heard a single case. This isn’t to say that we’ve done nothing in this time.
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Bills leave Lottery’s future to chance
Danny Hernandez | February 14New Mexico’s state-run universities’ and colleges’ primary task is educating New Mexicans. Unfortunately, many graduating New Mexico high school seniors have traditionally forgone pursuing higher education because they lack financial resources.
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NM could become New Arizona
Andrew Beale | February 11Gov. Susana Martinez wants New Mexico to look more like Arizona. A new executive order proposed by Martinez mirrors Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, which would have required police to check the immigration status of everyone “suspected” of being in the country illegally. Martinez’ executive order requires immigration-status checks for everyone arrested in New Mexico. The racial implications of both these bills are obvious.
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U.S. wants Americans to keep stealing, hogging resources
February 10Editor, The United States has deliberately supported bloody, greedy regimes that have robbed, tortured and murdered their own people in dozens of nations: Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Zaire, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rhodesia, South Africa, Pakistan, Brunei, Argentina, Liberia, Honduras, Paraguay, Panama, El Salvador, Indonesia, Taiwan, Greece, Brazil, Portugal, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Morocco, Spain, Vietnam, Peru, Philippines, Cuba, Haiti, Chile, Guatemala, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. If we believe the U.S.
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It’s not about me; it’s about the group
Chris Quintana | February 10There are many things I hate in this world — Axe body spray, zombie spiders, AT&T’s desperate, “Please don’t leave us for Verizon” iPhone campaign — but few I feel as conflicted about as classroom group work. On one hand, group work sucks.
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Don’t shoot from the hip
Nathan New | February 8I am not one to judge a hipster by its cover. I don’t assume that you are one, either. But as a society, we’ve begun to profile these fixed-gear bike jockeys, and we’re using our sense of disdain to fuel a reliable stereotype.
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Your resolution should be not to change
Chris Quintana | February 8People should give up on trying to reinvent themselves. By this point, all of the New Year’s resolutions have gone down the toilet.
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Survival of gray wolf species can’t be left to legislators
February 7Editor, Three bills have been introduced in Congress by representatives of the Western Caucus that seek to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) so that the Act does not apply to the gray wolf.
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Now is the time to work on social, environmental future
February 7Editor, We are 33 days into 2011, and we have already experienced signs of social and climate change on a global scale.
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Egypt’s Mubarak had Uncle Sam’s blessing, funding
February 3Editor, The situation in Egypt is getting more and more, what’s the politically correct word, “unstable.” Many people are now saying that it is not a question of if President Hosni Mubarak resigns, but when.
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Let’s push lawmakers for GLBT equality in New Mexico
February 3Editor, I write to you with the hope that together we can support members of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community in its pursuit for equality. I can no longer sit around and watch my GLBT brothers and sisters’ suffering.
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Ordering coffee is like doing taxes
Jenny Gignac | February 3It didn’t hit me until I got back in my car. I was standing at Starbucks Wednesday morning, anxiously awaiting my tall green tea latte with two Splendas.
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Rome should come to ABQ after Mike’s call to action
Ryan Tomari | February 3Albuquerque is burning for a Jim Rome visit. Please Rome, do it for the “clones” — and more specifically, Mike from Albuquerque. One of Rome’s “clones” (a nickname the radio host gives his listeners and callers), Mike sticks out in listeners’ minds, including mine.
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U.S. needs to tread softly in new Middle East
February 2Editor, Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. The U.S. government and U.S. campuses appear to have not learned much from the 1979 Iranian revolution and subsequent kidnapping of Western professors. Anyone familiar with yesterday’s history knows that before the current mullahcracy in Iran there was a Western-backed secular government in Tehran.
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University closure notices need to be more timely, considerate
February 2Editor, I believe it’s appalling how administrators decided to close campus 30 minutes before classes started.
