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The Setonian
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Take care, lest ye be crushed by the candy

Editor, If I were to tell you, dear reader, that you may carry a siren of moral turpitude and a harbinger of impending doom in your pocket, and worse yet, that you engage with its glacé contours as joyfully as you would a beloved novel or film, would you take heed?



The Setonian
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#RelationshipStatus

“Well he has a boyfriend, but I think he is flirting with me,” I said. “Why?” my friends asked. “Because he uses smiley faces and winky faces in his texts!”



The Setonian
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Nudity is natural and can save electricity

Editor, I love living naked at home and nearly naked elsewhere, when I am warm enough. My naked, lean, healthy, well-tanned body is my favorite suit. Living naked connects me to the earth.


The Setonian
Opinion

Dr. Pegs Prescription

Does this sound familiar? A round, raw-looking sore on the edge of the lip, right where the lip meets the face. You have probably seen this on someone, perhaps even on yourself.


The Setonian
Opinion

Unborn children have same human rights

A classic definition of law was given by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century.  He defined law as: “A command of reason, promulgated by legitimate authority, for the sake of the common good.”


The Setonian
Opinion

The Lobo Letter

Both GPSA and ASUNM are honored to give you a warm welcome for the 2013-2014 school year. ¡Bienvenidos! Having spent the summer planning for the present academic year, it is refreshing and encouraging to be surrounded by our colleagues,


The Setonian
Opinion

America’s Founders were men, not deities

Can we stop with the Founding Fathers already? In Dayona Dodd’s column “Neither party works for us” in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo, we were once again treated to a phenomenon that has become rather prominent in our nation’s political discourse: the misguided “appeal to the Founding Fathers.”


The Setonian
Opinion

This page could be your soapbox

So it’s that time of year again, everyone: The school year begins anew, students return to their hallowed halls of learning and the opinions begin flying around on campus and in the newspaper about everything from Chelsea, formerly Bradley, Manning’s imprisonment and request for hormonal therapy to what exactly Lobo Athletics is doing with all of that money.




The Setonian
Opinion

Teachers are the solution, not the problem

Editor, Thanks to Jamillah Wilcox for her fine article (in the July 22-July 29 issue of the Daily Lobo) reporting on the attack on public education by representatives of the private sector at the recent meeting of the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee in the SUB, of all places.




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Opinion

Dr. Pegs Prescription

Welcome back to school. I hope you had a good summer, and are rested and ready to crack open the books and expand your mind. I also hope you had a healthy summer, with time to regroup and take care of your body.


The Setonian
Opinion

Don’t work for makers of ‘hell-on-earth weapons’

Editor, 68 years ago this month, the United States atom bombed Hiroshima, Japan. The U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 murdered 166,000 people — over 50 times the number of people murdered in New York City and Washington D.C. on 9/11.


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The Lobo Letter

Welcome, incoming and returning students! In the early part of the summer, the leaders of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM), the Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA), the Staff Council and the Faculty Senate started discussing additional ways to share some of our views


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