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Letter: Urban gang violence in America worse than any jihadist terrorism

Daily Lobo Readers | August 15

The gun violence perpetrated in the US by radical Islamists is but a fraction of our overall gun violence. Just in the arena of murders that are drug-related, the toll is far greater. You think the gang bangers in our inner cities are not terrorists in every sense of the term, terrorizing the neighborhoods they live in? The murders they have committed all these decades have been far worse than any mass shooter of the jihadi kind.

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Letter: UNM is trying its best to improve its handling of campus sexual assault

Daily Lobo Readers | July 27

Sexual assault is arguably the most disturbing issue on our college campuses nationwide. At UNM, it has become a primary focus over the past few years, beginning with some high profile cases involving our students, and culminating in a Department of Justice review of our policies and procedures.

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Letter: American society doesn't care if Asians are killed or dehumanized

Daily Lobo Readers | July 25

Editor, Do Asian lives matter too? Doesn’t look like it, if you see all these Asian store workers in inner cities across America being murdered in cold blood while their stores are robbed – that’s what they get in exchange for providing basic necessities and accepting food stamps and welfare cash.

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Letter: Frank's response to DOJ investigation is shameful and inadequate

Daily Lobo Readers | July 18

I write this letter to express my concern and frustration with President Frank’s response to the Department of Justice’s Report of its investigation of the University of New Mexico’s failures regarding the investigation and response to reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment by its students, specifically President Frank’s comments that the DOJ’s report has a “lack of facts” and was just “anecdotal”.

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Letter: Keeping the poor out of college serves to benefit the rich

Daily Lobo Readers | July 18

Looking at the Bernie-stoked Clinton plan to initially offer free in-state college tuition initially to those whose family makes a total of only $80,000, this would mean the poor, and many American business owners do not even want this because, plain and simple, they do not want more college graduates flooding the market with their higher wage demands, especially liberal arts degree holders “with their noses in the air.”

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Column: Black community has and will continue to persevere

Jacklyn Asamoah | July 13

It’s time like this when the structure of racism rears its ugly head from the hidden shadows of the so called “post-racial” society. It’s time like this where people are waking up and realizing that they are fighting an everyday struggle and war on race. These events that are blasted all over the news and social media numb one’s response and ability to process the difficult situations. When we are constantly waking up to hear of another killing of someone who looks likes us— we begin to constantly question, “Are my family, friends, co-workers, peers, neighbors next” or even “Am I next?”

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Letter: Republican partisanship is blocking vital anti-Zika research

Daily Lobo Readers | July 11

Ongoing Republican obstructionism to any Obama-proposed legislation recently reached an egregious level; public health is now being endangered. They have blocked appropriations to fund the fight to eliminate the microcephaly-causing Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes, and therefore able to be quickly spread anywhere. They have played with the lives and health of even American babies, even after several tens of thousands of Zika cases have already appeared in Puerto Rico.

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Letter: Brexit too simple a solution for complex problems

Daily Lobo Readers | June 27

I wanted to share a little bit of my opinion on the "Brexit" outcome in the United Kingdom. As most people on campus probably know, the UK's referendum to leave the European Union passed by a slight majority. The political right celebrates this as a victory for nationalism and a resistance to the establishment.

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Letter: LGBT romance more meaningful than violence

Daily Lobo Readers | June 23

Millions of men, including many who love their wives and girlfriends, are terrified of having family and friends find out they want sex with men! Some try to smother their desire with religion. Some bully gays and yell "faggots." Some kill themselves with booze, junk food or a bullet. Some like Omar Mateen murder LGBT persons. Many live a double life.

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Letter: Americans are capable of changing gun violence

Daily Lobo Readers | June 20

The gun violence of June, 2016 is unforgivable. These events are the latest in a string of near unfathomable grotesqueness. Children in Sandy Hook, theater patrons in Aurora, church goers in Charlotte and so, so many more. They share a common denominator of the worst humanity can offer. These events are unthinkably cruel and inescapably brutal. But we must fathom them; we must accept reality. This is not an admission of fear or defeat. Let our reactions as a city, as a state and as a nation be worthy of a people who claim to be free.

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Letter: Professors' relationships with foreign students need legalities

Daily Lobo Readers | June 20

The shocking killing of UCLA professor William Klug by his former graduate student in engineering, one Mainak Sircar who was from India, begs examination of exploitation of foreign students by American professors, because in this case Sircar reportedly bore a grudge against this former professor, having claimed earlier that Klug had “cleverly” stolen his code.

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The U.S. Empire is the world's worst terrorist gang

June 20

I compliment Muhammad Ali for refusing to be a U.S. soldier. I highly compliment him for refusing to go murder people Vietnam.

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Letter: Mining jobs cause more harm than good

June 12

So many working class Americans are voting for Trump because he does not appear to give a hoot about the environment when it comes to mining jobs he wants to bring back to the US, like for coal. But what about the danger to the health of the worker that mining inherently engenders? Thus for coal, what about black lung disease?

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Editorial: LGBTQ community's values strongest following Orlando tragedy

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | June 12

There is a tragically ironic element to the timing of Sunday’s attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, the aftermath of which amounts to the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history. All through June, all across the country, the LGBTQ community and its supporters have been and are celebrating Pride month, centered around the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage on June 26. People of all nationalities, races and preferred sexual orientations are taking to the streets to celebrate an atmosphere of unity, equality and love.

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Column: 2016 presidential race is an example of political extremism

Matthew Reisen | June 6

This is an assessment on what seems to be happening in America: a situation I like to call “political extremism.” Recently, I covered both Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s political rallies in Albuquerque.

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Letter: Businessmen like Trump benefit most from outsourced labor

June 6

One of the special benefits of getting one’s higher education in the USA is that USAan universities often have folks on campus from many different parts of the world – studying together, working in labs together, performing together and hopefully partying together.

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Stop eating meat and dairy to end climate chaos

May 31

If we give a damn about climate change, about saving water, about water pollution, about saving forests; if we give damn about cruelty to animals, about all hungry people worldwide having enough to eat, about our own health, stop eating all meat and dairy — cheese, milk, ice cream, eggs.

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Employers, not workers, should be punished for illegal immigration

May 29

It is the employers of “illegals” who are acting illegally themselves. But we argue only over whether undocumented workers – whose only crime is looking to work and feed their families – should be deported or allowed to stay under a reform of our immigration policy.

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Letter: Doctors should not be held responsible for painkiller addiction

May 16

Society has no business blaming a painkiller-prescribing doctor for an already-addicted patient’s death. Any doctor, out of his professional compassion and duty, is going to place pain management first, and is not expected to know a whole lot about the usual patient presenting, in particular if the patient is an addict. Besides, where does a prescribing standard leave off and “over-prescribing" begin for agonizing, unrelenting pain?

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Letter: UNM's sexual harassment problems too serious to stay

May 16

It was suggested I write in to explain why I am leaving UNM for UCCS this coming fall. It came to my attention that the UNM president has been less than agreeable when it comes to how assault, rape and other forms of violence are being handled. So, in an attempt to show that everything is not "okay" and "fine" here, let me tell you why I am leaving UNM.