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Letter: Societal expectations lead to homophobia and self-denial

Many males who yell “faggot” at others have sex with males or want to, but do not have the balls to say so. Some males are terrified of their hidden desire, scared if they tried it once with a male, they would enjoy it so much that they would want to keep getting it on with males.


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Letter: State commissioners lack 21st Century modesty

Editor, Agenda Item No. 8 at the New Mexico State Game Commission public hearing held on Tuesday in Albuquerque was a request by the Pueblo of Santa Ana to transplant a number of pronghorn antelope on to their pueblo lands to aid in their recovery and for various tribal uses. Although I initially went to this state commission meeting in hopes of hearing the issue titled Agenda Item No. 7, I decided to stay and sat in the back of the hotel ballroom to witness a little of the New Mexico State Game Commission in action.




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ASUNM column: Big opportunities to get involved this week

Like we promised at the beginning of the year, Alex and I write these weekly columns for the main purpose of being transparent and keeping all students informed of the different events and endeavors that ASUNM is taking on. This week is a VERY heavy week for ASUNM, which means that it is all the more reason for YOU to participate and get involved!


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Letter: Pope's visit an ominous sign for the US

Swept up in the trumpeted spectacle of this pope’s giving of audience to our government leaders in no less than the nation’s capital, inviting him to a special ceremony in the White House to show him awe, having him speaking to a special joint session of Congress, we need to stand back a tad while reaching out our hands just to get a hint of his “awesome presence” and ask, “What’s wrong with this picture?”


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Letter: Obama is not living up to his words about justice and human dignity

A quote from President Obama Wednesday, addressing Pope Francis: “You call on all of us, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, to put the ‘least of these’ at the center of your concerns...to stand up for justice and against inequality, and to ensure that every human being is able to live in dignity because we are all made in the image of God.”




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Letter: UNM's flag policy a violation of freedom of speech

Editor, Recently, KOAT, campusreform.org and theblaze.com ran a story regarding UNM officials demanding that a student remove the American flag displayed in his dorm room window because it extended into what the University defined as public space. 


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Letter: The beliefs of many atheists are based on unscientific presuppositions

Editor, We would like to present the results of the Atheist Survey collected on the UNM Albuquerque campus in April-May 2015. Of the 56 self-proclaimed atheists and agnostics who completed the survey, 45 (80 percent) have at least one parent who believed in God, 35 (63 percent) believed in God as a child, and 42 (75 percent) began to doubt God's existence prior to leaving high school.


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ASUNM column: ASUNM wants YOU to participate

Lately there has been a lot of talk about student fees. Somewhere in the breakdown of the fees students pay every semester, YOU are paying a student government fee. If you are a full time student at UNM, every semester you pay ASUNM $20. So why not take advantage of your money? Well, here are the ways you can do just that:


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Letter: Lobos an appropriate mascot for UNM

Editor, Lobos are not a losing face, nor do they besmirch the legacy of UNM. The Mexican grey wolf is not extinct but critically endangered, and many efforts have been made to remedy this. The mentality of wolves in general as being degenerate and pests has only made the Lobos come back more difficult. Despite all the cards being held against them, Lobos preserve and maintain their dignity. Lobos are shot, poisoned and thought of as losers, yet they still survive and stick to the tradition of a pack mentality: with a variety of members in a pack working together to achieve the same goals. Their penchant for team work and success as a pack is something that we at UNM all emulate. To me the Lobo represents strength in the face of adversity, which is a mascot we should all be proud of. Resilient, strong, and proud: UNM Lobos for life! Sincerely, Veronica Koomson-Maiden Daily Lobo reader Lobos are not a losing face, nor do they besmirch the legacy of UNM. The Mexican grey wolf is not extinct but critically endangered, and many efforts have been made to remedy this. The mentality of wolves in general as being degenerate and pests has only made the Lobos come back more difficult.


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Letter: Republicans show they are against the defenseless

Publicly, have you noticed how so many Republican power-mongers pick mainly on weak people, people who are already oppressed, people who are defenseless? Like dirt-poor undocumented migrants, artistic gay men, women in crisis making the agonizing decision of having a late-term abortion or possibly dying, and entire third-world nations that they bomb on the slightest pretext because the people there are too poor to fight back.






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Letter: Public funding delivered by Christian entities may spur religious blackmail

Editor, Government-subsidized services for the poor in predominantly Christian New Mexico are being monopolized by private Christian entities owning housing, notably for retired seniors; subsidized charter schools sucking precious public funds away from properly public schools; colleges (some of questionable pedigree) availing of scarce federal student aid; and hospitals with explicitly Christian names through which vast public moneys travel in the form of Medicaid reimbursements.


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Sports Issue: South-Asian countries can take sports fandom to the extreme

I was 14 years old when Pakistan lost the 1999 Cricket World Cup final match to Australia. As a die-hard supporter of the Pakistan cricket team, the loss was both shocking and humiliating for me. I did not eat for the next two days. My friends and I, after that defeat, had started discussing the idea of banning Pakistan’s cricket team. We would argue that the cricket administration and players were wasting the nation’s time and resources. It was not just us who would come up with those “silly ideas,” but other Pakistani fans shared those sentiments in large.

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