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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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Letter: Practices of NMPIRG show group is partisan

Editor, In the article "Petitioning book prices," your reporter, Christopher Sanchez, described the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group as a nonpartisan organization. This is a stupid and dangerous characterization. If one were to go to NMPIRG's Web site, one would find that they are actively ...


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Letter: Focusing on race reveals the beginning of racism

Editor, One of Michelle Touson's graduate classes must not have been the study of logic. With 10 million other things to focus her eyes and her mind on, she has chosen to take notice of her color and the color of others in her class. That action sounds to me like the beginning of the limiting logic ...


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Letter: Lax smoking rules at UNM risk health of nonsmokers

Editor, I have to agree with Kristen Woodruff's letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo about UNM's extremely lenient smoking policy. Thousands and thousands of nonsmokers have and die of lung cancer every year. Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve's widow and a life-long nonsmoker, currently has smoker's lung ...


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Letter: Nonsmokers are winning, so they should quit whining

Editor, This is in response to Kristen Woodruff's letter from Thursday's edition of the Daily Lobo. Let me begin by saying that while she has a good point, she has chosen to articulate this opinion in a forceful way. This is why I have chosen to write this letter. As a tobacco slave, it is painful ...


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Letter: Music department should expel Hare Krishna singer

Editor, OK, I'll say it - there is a sonic stink bomb at UNM every day around lunch hour. Has anyone noticed that no one sits or hangs out in front of Popejoy anymore? There's only one person sitting there every day - the sonic stink bomb, the Hare Krishna. From the south doors of the SUB to the ...


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Letter: Despite success, tennis neglected by Daily Lobo

Editor, We are a little offended with the lack of interest shown in UNM tennis teams. The past two weekends, both men's and women's teams have had major events that have not been reported in the Daily Lobo. The women's tennis team had an upset victory over the 27-ranked team in the nation - the ...



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Letter: Peace activists jailed; war crimes fuel protests

Editor, Two weeks ago, peace activist Daniel Burns was sentenced to six months in prison for protesting the American violation of international law with the illegal war of aggression against Iraq. He is one of four war protesters, known as the Saint Patrick's Four, who poured their blood inside a military ...


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Column: Science of aphrodisiacs

by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist People just aren't as romantic as they used to be. Back in the day, men concocted all kinds of aphrodisiacal rituals and potions to elicit love from women. In North Africa, for example, a man would secretly enrich a beverage for his love interest with semen ...

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