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Letter: Circus bashing: worthless, smiling children: priceless

Editor, Two tickets to the circus: $11, including one free ticket. A taco plate, nachos, cotton candy and large soda: $14. Must-have lighted toy with psychedelic flashing light design and noisemaker: $15. Ticket for ride on an elephant: $6. Letters admonishing treatment of circus animals from ...


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Letter: NMPIRG misunderstood in its purpose, affiliation

Editor, After reading John Newman's letter to the editor in Monday's Daily Lobo regarding New Mexico Public Interest Research Group's status as a nonpartisan organization, I realized that there are probably many students who don't know either what a nonpartisan group is or what an advocacy group does. ...


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Letter: Smokers should dispose of cigarette butts properly

Editor, Regarding the current debate about regulating where smokers can smoke - I am a big fan of workplace smoking bans, but I support the right of smokers to smoke outdoors. However, smokers would do themselves a big favor by ceasing to carelessly throw their cigarette butts on the ground. As ...


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Letter: Civilized society is marked by the freedom of speech

Editor, Sami Shakir has expressed his right to freedom of speech. His comments are insulting to me by claiming that I am denigrating this issue of the Mohammed cartoons by standing up for my right to criticize government, religion or any other sensitive issues to any other person. Freedom of speech ...



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Letter: Smokers should be given their own smoking facility

Editor, The recent letters to the editor about the issue of smoking on campus are yet another example of confusing issues related to public health with morality in order to justify regulating the behavior of others. In the United States, people no longer have the right to harm themselves, and anything ...


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Letter: Respect is important during a heated debate

Editor, Respect is the key to taking one's point of view and making it a valid one. When we talk about heated issues such as racism, abortion, gay rights and so on, we have a problem with attacking one another personally for our views. You cannot go and insult someone for his or her views - once ...


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Letter: Team USA hits new low with Olympic phone call

Editor, OK, I don't know how many Daily Lobo readers watched the opening ceremonies for the Torino Winter Olympics, but I couldn't help noticing that as team USA walked by the cameras, a blonde female member of the team was talking on her cell phone the entire time. Boy, there's the ugly American ...



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Letter: Delegation excited about visit to China, not worried

Editor, The World Affairs Delegation would like to sincerely thank Dong Chengru for his insights in his letter to the editor in Monday's Daily Lobo. However, we would also like to insist that our views on China were not correctly portrayed in the article in last Wednesday's Daily Lobo, to which Chengru ...


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Letter: Privileged should realize racism is still a problem

Editor, In response to the comments by David Alvarado in the letter in Friday's Daily Lobo, "Focusing on race reveals the beginning of racism," most people only focus on those issues that they perceive as directly impacting their lives. Racism, sexism, classism and all other power-related differences ...


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Letter: In a toxic world, there are worse things than smoke

Editor, I am writing in response to the letters that have recently appeared in the Daily Lobo concerning the University's rules on smoking. Guess what, people - the fresh air outside isn't going to become any cleaner if smoking disappeared. Have you ever been stuck behind a diesel truck in traffic? ...


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Letter: Questioning assumptions is hard, but war is worse

Editor, Several months ago I was in Dallas, sitting on an airplane about to depart to Orlando, Fla. An American soldier dressed in his brown uniform took the seat next to me. Somehow, we started talking about where we were from in Florida, and as the plane took off and the wheels pulled in, he kind ...


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Letter: Pod computers shouldn't be used to surf Myspace

Editor, Everyone is on Myspace.com these days. I remember when it first started getting popular here. I tried it, and after about a year and a half of drama, reading about other people's sex lives and pointless chain mail about a little boy named Teddy who's going to kill you, I had enough. I was ...


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Letter: Reactions hurt both sides of Danish cartoon debate

Editor, The Muslim and Western hate-mongers are engaged in a spitting match, and I am having trouble deciding which side is more foolish. The Muslim hate-mongers claim that their faith in a twisted version of Islam entitles them to hurt and insult innocent people, while the hate-mongers of the West ...



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Letter: Majority are nonsmokers; they shouldn't complain

Editor, I'm concerned about the recent letters that have been published in the Daily Lobo with regards to smoking on campus and the dangers of second-hand smoke. As a social smoker, I'm tired of being labeled as a bad person because of my choice to smoke. I completely understand and agree with ...



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Letter: Students visiting China have no reason to worry

Editor, I came to UNM last August as a visiting scholar to the Department of Linguistics, and as a Chinese national, I am very glad to learn from Friday's Daily Lobo that 12 UNM students will go to Beijing to participate in the World Model United Nations Conference. But the Daily Lobo also reported ...


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Letter: It's a two-way street for smokers, nonsmokers

Editor, In response to the letters to the editor in last week's Daily Lobo regarding "slaves to tobacco," I believe it is important for smokers to stand their ground when it comes to this sensitive issue. First, let's clarify one single fact: There are two types of students at UNM - smokers and ...

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