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COLUMN: MTV to tackle sex-ed

by Jane Eisner Knight Ridder-Tribune On Thursday evening, MTV will depart from its usual fare of grinding music videos and shrieking, bare-bellied teenagers to present a half-hour news special tackling the issue of sexual education in the schools.

EDITORIAL: Drivers in N.M. are some of U.S.' worst

We have bad drivers in New Mexico? No way. The Albuquerque Journal did an interesting piece asking people for their opinions on how they feel about New Mexico drivers and the responses were for the most part honest. New Mexico drivers are some of the worst in the country.

SWFC one of ASUNM's gems

by Jennifer Onuska Daily Lobo Columnist Let the show begin! How do you, as college students, prefer to spend your free time? For me, a good movie is a great way to unwind and relieve stress from a busy schedule, class, and day. As a mainstream form of entertainment, going to the movies is a great way to spend your free time.

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LETTER: Yeagley's presentation is distorted in Lobo article

Editor, A journalist is sometimes like a good scrabble player. The ideas for an article, like individual letters for words, can be arranged in different order and the message of the article can read different ways, just like the same letters can spell entirely different words.

We cannot back unjust bloodshed

by Eliot Walker Daily Collegian U-Wire "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism." So said Martin Luther King Jr.

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LETTER: Many New Mexicans lack health insurance

Editor, We would like to applaud Mayor Chavez for declaring the first week in October as Universal Health Care Awareness Week and recognizing that all New Mexicans deserve healthcare. One in four New Mexicans does not have health insurance, according to the most recent census count.

COLUMN: Broadcast media misuse sound bites in newscasts

by Greg Holmquist University Daily Kansan U-Wire Sound bites are truly American. Only in America could debates take, as their starting point, quotes that are all too often out of context, and downright misleading. One fan of the sound bite that everyone should know is the Fox News Channel.

COLUMN: File sharing a new statement

by Sarah Beetham Daily Targum U-Wire A long time ago, before any of us were born, back when rock and roll was just getting started and our parents were teenagers, a dollar was the standard price for an LP. Now, decades later, that same music - and the new music of today - is packaged and marketed on CDs that are much more expensive by a very small number of powerful corporations.

COLUMN: Bush looks at the wrong issues

by Eric Howerton Daily Lobo Columnist George W. Bush is obviously confused as to what the international role of the United States really is. Rather than epitomizing Freud's questionable Thanatos - the death instinct, whose validity Freud seriously doubted after directly experiencing WWI - by demanding wars and impetuous missions that will cause unnecessary deaths, shouldn't Bush, as our questionably elected public spokesman, focus more on controlling our borders and maintaining peaceful relations with our neighbors, encouraging peaceful international relations? He should at least address the economy.

COLUMN: OEO acts as modern day UNM inquisition

by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist Lost amidst the furor stirred up by my intemperate remark last fall was the fact that I was at the same time charged by a female in my Western Civilization with "creating a hostile classroom environment.

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COLUMN: Teeny bopper magazine all style, lacks substance

by Aubrey Henretty U-Wire Are you a cool girlfriend? Are you a diva? Are you college material? In a stunning display of hot colors, cool fonts and hard-hitting journalism, the October issue of Seventeen magazine asks its readership all three of these tough questions.

Punish parents for carelessness

by Rachel Richmond U-Wire If there is one thing I cannot stand in this world, it is crazy parents. I'm not talking about your run-of-the-mill, off-the-wall parents; I'm talking about the crazies. As in, the irresponsible, stupid, selfish and just plain mean parents.

COLUMN: World Bank protest a victory for participants

by Ashley Lusk U-Wire The daunting pillar rises high into the cloudless sky, encircled only by flapping flags, a dazzling reminder of the American spirit; down below, masses of humanity interweave their way through one another as they assemble for a common cause.

COLUMN: Japan's food decision justified

by Craig A. Butler Daily Lobo Columnist As winter approaches, people all over the world are looking forward to the donations of food from more prosperous nations to keep them alive. Millions of people across the globe depend on these donations to survive the harsh winter months.

COLUMN: Large chain hurts small towns with pill decision

by Melissa Branson U-Wire During the summer, a friend of mine organized a protest at Wal-Mart. She was bothered that Wal-Mart refuses to sell or fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill. Their pharmacies don't even carry it. It actually shocked me that such a huge corporation would do something like that, but she assured me that she had researched it and as part of that research, tried at numerous Wal-Mart stores to obtain the medication.

COLUMN: Self-defense class is a confidence booster

by Johnyne Barraclough Daily Lobo Guest Columnist I am a senior here at UNM and have been taking classes for four years. I never really worried about being assaulted except for when the occasional rape was reported in the local papers. Even then I only thought about it for a couple of weeks and then my mind wandered to the next issue at hand.