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Column: Smoking ban? Just ignore it

The Nanny State, the government that wants us to avoid alcohol and drugs and wear a seat belt and be nice to one another, has come to UNM. Beginning with the fall semester, all smoking will be banned from campus, except in designated areas. Actually, liquor has long been banned from the University, but such is due to the administration's fear of lawsuits, not the Nanny goal of protecting us from ourselves.

Segregation, apartheid beginning to bloom at UNM

Editor, The Israel Alliance was invited to set up a table representing Israel at the annual International Festival, held by the Office of International Programs and Studies. The festival is always fun and interesting, and people work hard to have the event be successful and worthwhile.

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Ask Dr. Peg

Spring has sprung. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming and birds are singing. Outside there are happy sounds and sights galore. But inside some people, it is still a bleak winter - cold, gray and eternal. When you are very depressed, it feels like winter will never turn to spring.

People should be allowed to carry concealed arms at UNM

Editor, "Gov. Bill Richardson established a task force to establish best practices for colleges and universities in New Mexico," UNMPD officials said in Wednesday's Daily Lobo. As usual, we are asked to place our lives in the hands of the police, rather than investigate what would truly be the best practice for New Mexico campuses: arming the citizens.

Lobo should set aside page for UNM political communications

Editor, I've juggled academics and my professional life for 25 years now and, for better or worse, consider UNM to be my final resting place where I hope to finish a graduate degree this decade. Over those years, I've seen all the complaints and responses one could ever hope to see regarding the lack of communication between the undergraduate and graduate student bodies, their elected leaders, faculty and the administration with none of them ever actually making a meaningful move to change the situation.

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Shame on student club for sponsoring visit by CIA

Editor, Last week, the CIA paid a visit to campus in an event sponsored by Inspire Anderson Marketing. A student club sponsoring a top terrorist organization? What a shame. It is sad that ignorance has again come to stain the floor of our University. Do these UNM students know that the organization they brought to campus has a history that, for more than 60 years, includes planning and carrying out coups d'état and supporting dictators? Do they know that this organization is behind the killing of students, teachers and workers? Were they told that many children and mothers never saw their relatives again because they simply disappeared? Do they know that this organization trained some of the most sick-minded terrorists of the 21st century? Well, perhaps they should know.

Pot kept illegal for economic interests of firms, government

Editor, "Counterculture"? Seems to me marijuana usage is more mainstream these days. There are lots of people who indulge in the green, not saying any names, but governors, professors, M.D.s, organization officials, law graduates, undergraduates, etc. Hell, there's even a restaurant designed to tap the pot-smoker market: Cheba Hut.

Burden of proof is on ad writer for showing Holocaust was hoax

Editor, A recent ad in the Daily Lobo asserts that the extermination of Jews in World War II was a hoax and challenges "professors" to provide proof of the extermination. Since when is it OK to advance a proposition and then shift the burden of proof to others? The extermination of Jews by the Nazis was first reported in the New York Times on July 3, 1944, and was therefore a contemporaneous account.

Column: Once again, education left behind

Last fall when I announced my intention to vote for Ralph Nader for the fourth time, I was told by a number of Democrats that a vote for Nader was essentially a vote for four more years of Bush. I disagreed with them at the time, but it turns out they were right.

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Holocaust commemoration reminds us to resist hatred

Editor, The U.S. Congress established the Days of Remembrance as this country's annual commemoration of Holocaust victims. These victims include not only 6 million Jews, but also millions of others killed by the Nazi regime including the mentally and physically handicapped, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), non-Jewish Polish citizens, socialists, trade unionists and political dissidents.

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Going outside an enriching alternative to rec center

Editor, In response to the recent controversy surrounding the proposal of a new recreation center, I decided to draft a plan for an alternative to this $57 million center. My plan is cheaper and more energy efficient. I call it this: going outside. If or when my plan of going outside is implemented, an endless myriad of recreational activities will be available to students at virtually no cost.

Students didn't consider cost when polled about rec center

Editor, Building a new recreation center would be ridiculous for three reasons. First, the survey method was faulty. If you asked me today if I wanted a Bugatti Veyron, I would say yes. If you asked me today if I wanted a Bugatti Veyron that would cost me $1.

Advisers should be experts, avoid dead ends for students

Editor, I recently spoke with an adviser in the Anderson School of Management. Though the advisers in University College have bad reputations for being unhelpful, this adviser showed no improvement. As an adviser for the 3-2 Program with Anderson, she works with both undergrad and grad students.

Questioning the Holocaust is unethical and insulting

Editor, It was hard to read the shocking ad "Are you a student?" from Bradley R. Smith, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, in last week's Daily Lobo by a Holocaust denier. I assume the Lobo has to publish this ad because apparently there is nothing in it that could justify refusing it.

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