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Letter: U.S. nuclear bombs threaten greatest massacres in history

March 30

The U.S. nuclear bombs designed for decades at Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories terrorize many whole nations. U.S. nuclear bombs threaten to incinerate many times more moms, dads and children than Hitler and the Nazis killed in gas ovens, concentration camps and Word War II. U.S. nuclear bombs are prepared to slaughter far more people than all the wars in human history combined. U.S. nuclear bombs are targeted to commit mass murder worldwide — thousands of times larger than the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. nuclear bombs are aimed to massacre far more human beings than all the street gangs, drug dealers, drunk drivers, rapists, deranged spouses, serial killers, Ku Klux Klan and Mafia combined. Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, the radioactive and chemical contamination from the making and testing of these weapons can sicken and kill millions of people for thousands of years. Many children will be ravaged by cancers or ruined immunity.

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Column: Gen-Y scores low on skills

Jason Darensburg | March 27

American Millennials are some of the most unskilled people in the world. That’s according to a recent study published by the Educational Testing Service titled “America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future.” The Princeton-based researchers administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to measure the aptitude of adults in 23 different countries. Generation Y Americans — those born after 1980 — were shown to be lagging far behind their foreign counterparts in literacy, numeracy and basic problem-solving skills. Madeline Goodman is one of the report’s co-authors. She told Fortune magazine, “We really thought [U.S.] Millennials would do better than the general adult population, either compared to older coworkers in the U.S. or to the same age group in other countries, but they didn’t. In fact, their scores were abysmal.”

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Letter: Iran letter reveals who has interest in failure of peace

March 26

The recent letter sent to the Iranian leadership by 47 Republican senators threatening to repeal any peace agreement between the Iranian government and President Obama was quite shocking for an obvious reason. Treason is defined as “betraying one’s country.” Congress has acted at the behest of a foreign government, Israel, in order to betray its president in exchange for generous campaign contributions from Israeli allied special interest groups like AIPAC. If this action is not the very definition of treason, then I would argue that it comes uncomfortably close to crossing that line.

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Letter: Fear-mongering on oil prices ignores benefits to consumers

March 26

How come our media are mourning on and on and everywhere about how the drop of oil price per barrel is such a serious blow to our economy, and not a drop of relief mentioned on behalf of poor consumers who see lower prices at the pump? It is not just the corporatist media wringing their hands about the loss to profits to “big oil.” They could be expected to whine about how disappointed they are that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has refused to cut down on production so that oil prices can remain high.

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Letter: Attitudes expressed in letters show need for resolution

March 23

Yay for freedom of speech for revealing yet another bigot. And hurrah that our constitutional rights trump any University-wide resolution. I wonder: does Mr. Ryu’s letter in Friday’s paper qualify legally as hate speech? It certainly defames, mischaracterizes and slanders an entire religious community of millions of adherents. You could argue it threatens, too. It does not provide any support for the contention that the recent University resolution is a bad idea. Although I am not familiar with the specific wording in the resolution, my understanding is that, in the face of a real or perceived threat, students should be protected on a university campus in terms of their right to exercise their religious freedom in a safe and non-hostile environment. It is letters such as Mr. Ryu’s that make the resolution a necessity. The environment in the United States is one laden with fear and hostility towards Islam which, in the United States, is a minority faith. Muslim students, just like any other students, should not have to deal with this.

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Letter: Students need support in face of misconceptions about Islam

March 23

It has come to my attention that many negative and misleading things about Islam are being published in the Daily Lobo. As per my right to freedom of speech granted to me in the American Constitution, I would like to now respond to these attacks from the American Muslim point of view. First of all, I’d like to point out that lecturing people on what their religion teaches when you are not even a part of that religion is as if I went to a lawyer asking for a medical diagnosis. In Islam we have many different sects and schools of thought. In addition to the Sunni and Shi’a — the two main sects — in Sunni Islam we have four primary schools of thought, or madhebs. These schools of thought are set up to interpret Islamic jurisprudence. We also have many other different interpretations of Islam. So the idea that you can group everyone under “one” Islam is an ignorant attempt to paint all Muslims the same. Similarly, this type of language is actually utilized by terrorist groups in an attempt to make Muslims feel alienated from their societies and recruit them to join these organizations.

The Setonian
Opinion

Letter: Resolution 6S ignores violent history and bigotry of Islam

March 20

First, I’d like to thank David Lynch for showing fairness in publications and allowing fact-based criticisms of Islam to be openly voiced. The opposition to Resolution 6S is important because its intentions were made clear: attempting to treat “Islamophobia” as a hate crime. Allowing Resolution 6S to go unnoticed, unchecked or without consequences would set the precedent for future actions of bigotry to become accepted. It should also be noted that although ASUNM President Rachel Williams insinuated that Resolution 6S was not meant to force anybody into accepting a certain ideology, Resolution 6S and ASUNM urged the UNM administration to openly support the resolution. This goes beyond the realm of the “student body” and is a political attempt to enforce the resolution through UNM staff members. This action is an invitation for UNM staff members to become bigots themselves, as they show favoritism to Muslims and attempt to stigmatize, harass, intimidate or show prejudice against people who voice their anti-Islamic beliefs.

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Ask Dr. Peg: Things to consider before your next Brazilian wax

Dr. Peggy Spencer | March 19

Question: Is it dirty if I don’t shave my private parts? Will I get sick if I don’t? To answer your question, it is not dirty to have hair on your pubes any more than it is dirty to have hair on your head. Hair is natural, as normal as fingernails or eyelashes. You will not get sick from keeping your pubic hair, although you could get sick or injured if you remove it. More on that in a minute

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Islam is Islam: 'Peaceful' Muslims are not real Muslims

March 16

Editor, The recent passage of Resolution 6S is an infringement on American civil rights. Not only was the definition of "Islamophobia" misrepresented, the claims that there are no contradictions between American values and Islamic values are baseless.

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Column: It's high time New Mexico legalized pot

Jason Darensburg | March 6

New Mexico should be next in line to legalize marijuana for recreational use. We can’t afford not to do it: Full legalization would provide tens of millions of dollars in economic benefits for the state at a time when the dwindling local economy needs a major boost. Colorado and Washington State legalized recreational use of marijuana in 2012. Oregon voters approved legalization in July 2014, and in February Alaska became the fourth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana.

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Opinion

Letter: People must address addiction issues before legalizing cannabis

March 5

Your cartoon on March 4 exemplifies how complicated the issue of cannabis legalization has become. To unravel the resulting confusion among users of this drug, there must first be broad agreement among all levels of government that cannabis is physically addictive, with serious consequences such as loss of working memory, cognitive impairment, even schizophrenia, and dangerous withdrawal symptoms like physical aggression.

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Recycle bins need more, better labeling

Katie Orndorff | March 3

Groups of students throughout the UNM campus have decided that they want to promote recycling and reduce the amount of recyclable items that end up in the trash. Every day, trash cans on campus are filled with things such as plastic water bottles or soda cups that could instead be recycled. An increasingly large issue is that many people want to throw their trash into the first bin available, regardless of whether the item is trash or a recyclable.

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