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Op-Ed: Regents' decision regarding HSC based on necessity, not politics

April 26

Political rumors cloud the logic behind the UNM Regents’ decision to reintegrate the Health Sciences Center with main campus. To clarify, the vote essentially returned the HSC Governing Board from a semi-autonomous entity back to a sub-committee of the Regents. This adjustment is a state Constitution requisite, and is identical to how HSC was managed for many years prior to a change in 2010. Like every other major enterprise on campus, HSC now has its own specific sub-committee for all of its academic, clinical and financial affairs.

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Letter: Tourists use Sherpas as crutch to scale Everest

April 26

The sport of top-level mountaineering should be done with the pure spirit of using one’s own physical prowess and endurance to reach the top, not the use of coolies to carry one’s stuff and otherwise attend to one’s every need, besides giving the mountaineer a leg up when needed and showing them the easier, gentler, safer path upward. That is cheating.

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Letter: Obama using declassification of 9-11 documents as threat

April 26

There has been a recent brouhaha in the corporate and Zionist-dominated media in regards to the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9-11 attacks. It has been said that President Obama is considering declassifying 28 classified pages of the 9-11 commission report which speaks of Saudi's involvement in the 9-11 attacks.

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Letter: University's methods of handling sexual assault inadequate

April 25

When I saw the Department of Justice’s findings on how UNM has been handling instances of assault on campus, I was sadly not surprised. In case you missed it, UNM’s handlings of reports “fail to comply with federal law”. What is the school planning to do about this? I’m getting really tired of nearly every month receiving some kind of notification that an assault has happened, only to see it described as a “groping” or “unwanted hugging”.

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Letter: Students should be able to take safety into their own hands if University won't

April 25

A certain naive attitude persists on campus about its relative safety and the measures in place to protect students. To be blunt, cold and sobering, I have to say that the University’s passive security measures are inadequate to protect students, especially those whose schedule has them out on the fringes of campus after dark. If one has trouble believing this reality, look no further than the most recent Lobo Alert that was sent out to us. A student was attacked just before 9 p.m. on April 21, and the best the University could do for those of us around was to send a text five and a half hours after the incident.

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Letter: Our way of life is not the only way

April 25

I constantly collect wisdom every day in order to live it. We have much to learn from other cultures. The native Tiruray people, who lived in the southern Philippines in the 1960s, enjoyed complete equality between men and women. Men were not above women, women were not above men – in any way. A spirit of harmony – no battles of men against women, no battles of women against men. Caring, non-violence, warmth, nurturing, sharing and empathy were not considered feminine qualities; they were human qualities – the right way for both men and women to be. Bravery, confidence, clear thinking, boldness in sex and boldness in conversation were not considered masculine qualities; they were human qualities – the right way for both men and women to be. Toughness, dominating others and taking advantage of others was not right for men or women. Men and women deeply understood and helped each other.

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Letter: A vote for Hillary Clinton will only bring more violence

April 21

ld like to take this opportunity to address Hillary Clinton supporters. If you are not aware by now, then there is a certain faction within our government known as the neoconservatives or "neo cons" for short. This group published a paper called "Rebuilding America's Defenses" in which they argued that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States should use its superior military strength to dominate the rest of the world by the barrel of a gun.

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Letter: Save the bees, save our food

April 21

I sure like food, don’t you? Without food, as a matter of fact, there would stop being people. We are getting closer and closer to running out of bees that pollinate over 70 percent of our foods. In the last year, over 50 percent of bee colonies died in New Mexico due to a recently popular pesticide called Neonics.

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Letter: New Mexico's water needs to be protected

April 21

As a native New Mexican and a college student, I care a lot about having clean drinking water in this city. Not having clean drinking water is a big problem for all of us. But it's especially a big problem for our kids and future generations of New Mexicans. Growing up in New Mexico my father and I went on a lot of river rafting trips in New Mexico on rivers like the Rio Chama and a lot of the other rivers.

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Letter: I drink no booze

April 21

I drink no booze. Booze has devastated the lives of many of my friends. Booze causes car crashes, paralyzing and killing thousands, including my niece Rachel. Booze causes awful family fights, ruined romances, horrible holiday memories ... I do not want to make it easier for me to say or do things I later terribly regret. Men wake up in jail not remembering stabbing their wife or buddy while drunk the night before.

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History of Marijuana Legalization

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | April 18

A comprehensive look at the history of pot, and the eventual benefits of its legalization, from the 1960s through the 2040s.

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Letter: Cars are an addiction that's killing the planet

April 14

15 years ago April 7 was the last time I rode in any car! I have not owned a car for 36 years. I damn wars for oil! I condemn fracking. Cars cause catastrophic climate chaos. Cars poison the air. Highways, streets, parking lots and garages smother millions of acres of fertile soil needed for growing food and trees. Trees soak up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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Letter: Sanders is running against civic resignation

April 14

Civic resignation is the head bowed to the inexorable outcome; the shrug that follows two centuries of democracy at half mast; the unquieted, Flint-Michigan-state-of-dread that knows that someone will put something in the tap.

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Letter: Britain covering up crimes with euphemisms

April 14

The Panama Papers leak has brought the world’s attention to tax dodgers among the rich and the powerful, reminding us that a large percentage of the world’s tax “havens” are on British-ruled islands.

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Letter: Concealed carry permits are for protection, should extend to campus

April 14

The recent bill that was passed in Texas has been a hot topic as of late. S.B. 11, also known as the campus carry law, is a new law that will allow anyone who possesses a concealed carry license to be able to carry a gun on campus. The law does however, give discretion to universities to allow them to tweak and create some restrictions.

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Letter: Randy Ko in touch with commuter students

April 11

Randy Ko is more than just your typical candidate for the president of the student body. He is unique and necessary because he is a commuter student like the vast majority of us students, a rarity in student body presidents. He lives in the reality that many students could be more involved in the university and seeks to show students that there is something at the University for everyone. Student collaboration defines student success by giving them connections and experiences that will stay with them for a lifetime.

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Letter: John McCain wrong about ISIS

April 11

Senator John McCain recently criticized the US war effort against ISIS. In a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, McCain said, “My conversations with military commanders both on the ground and in the Pentagon have led me to the disturbing, yet unavoidable conclusion that they have been reduced from considering what it will take to win to what they will be allowed to do by this administration.”

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Editorial: It's students' duty to vote in ASUNM elections

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | April 7

With 2016 being a U.S. election year, talk of the presidential race is dominating the national landscape. College campuses especially tend to be a popular hotbed of discussion. Groups lobbying for particular candidates are formed, students volunteer to work in local campaign offices and they register to vote, many for the first time. Forums may be held, debate watch parties scheduled, respectful arguments hashed out late at night while taking a break from homework.

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Letter: Government spying could change humanity

April 7

This is the era when the processing of Big Data by artificial intelligence is revealing things about you and your past that even you don’t know -- revealed not to you, but to those who are looking to use what they find to act maliciously against you, both transnational criminal enterprises, and Big Government saying it is all for the greater good, of course.

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Letter: Health care providers in the U.S. don't have say in multiple arenas

April 7

Your letter regarding healthcare in the US was interesting to say the least and highly misinformed as well. You seem to feel that providers of healthcare may arbitrarily decide how and when they will treat patients.