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April 1Editor, There is a foul discharge coming from my brain and I think it started a week after I began reading the Daily Libel.
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Dr. Pegs Prescription
Dr. Peggy Spencer | March 29Two people in my life died this week. One was a family member, the other an associate’s husband. Both had terminal cancer and were expected to die eventually, but both went sooner than expected.
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UNM should rethink investments in big oil
March 29Editor, For those of us who worry about the climate crisis, the most alarming trend a few years ago was the declining fraction of Americans who believed humans are causing climate change.
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Thank you for finding and returning my wallet
March 29Editor, A good deed deserves acknowledgement and praise. Many thanks to the individual who found my wallet Tuesday afternoon and took it to the law school.
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Lobo’s self-censorship is vanity, not solidarity
March 29Editor, Your decision to support a boycott as a show of solidarity for the CNM paper was a poor choice: You shut down a paper that belongs to the students while not consulting them for how they wanted to handle it.
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Free speech, access to information set us free
March 28Editor, I have been an avid reader of the Daily Lobo since I came to campus last January. I have enjoyed the paper’s diversity of perspectives and freedom to pursue countless stories independently.
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Don’t fight censorship with more censorship
March 28Editor, I would like to begin quickly with the fact that I am glad you are taking the CNM censorship as seriously as it should be, and I commend the fact you are trying to use the Daily Lobo as a tool to combat the censorship.
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Censorship demands bold opposition
Elizabeth Cleary | March 28The president of CNM announced Wednesday that the CNM Chronicle can resume operations immediately and that Chronicle staff members have their jobs back.
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High court offers hope for equality and love
Josh Dolin | March 28On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments against Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California in 2008. The passage of Proposition 8 was a huge setback to our nation’s principles of equality, but there is now hope it will be overturned.
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Lobo Men's Basketball deserves recognition for solid season
March 26Editor, Before we throw our Lobo lanyards and basketball gear atop the fire built Thursday after the men’s basketball team’s second-round departure, let us pause.
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Daily Lobo should be commended for coverage of violence against women
March 26Editor’s note: This is in response to the article “Lecturer: Men can end violence against women,” published in Monday’s Daily Lobo.
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Twilight of the dogs — and Kindilien
Peter Kindilien | March 26Awakening on my final day, I ascend the steps of my underground bunker, which serves as a pseudo bomb shelter, into the morning sun, atop Nine Mile Hill.
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Men can be victims of domestic violence, too
March 26Editor, I was shocked to see an egregiously sexist headline in the Daily Lobo today. I did not attend Ted Bunch’s lecture, but I must say the snippet posted as the headline for the article was abhorrent.
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Want looney? Tune in to Fox News
Jason Stafford/ Daily Lobo guest columnist | March 25In a nation with multiple networks devoted to cartoons 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you may have heard this one before: Back in my day we didn’t have 24-hour cartoon channels.
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Dr. Pegs Prescription
Dr. Peggy Spencer | March 22Interpersonal conflict: It’s inevitable in human relationships. People are individuals, each with their own opinions, likes and dislikes.
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Sunlight is a cure-all if your lifestyle is healthy
March 22Editor, I enjoy walking many miles in town — shirt-free, in shorts and straw hat — in the brilliant sunshine. I appreciate conversations, friendly waves and honks, sexy whistles and yells and eating much fruit.
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Climate change deniers, open your eyes
Peter Kindilien | March 21In rebuttal to those who have lamely attempted to flame me and others for our columns discussing the consequences and implications of continuing to pump carbon into the atmosphere, I offer the following.
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Secure the future: Off profs, surplus boomers
March 21Editor, I think at this propitious time it would prudent, in view of the looming deficit and the great insight shown in the recent piece about the safety net strangling the future, simply to euthanize all the boomers and the infirm who blight our future
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Having difficulty calling your doctor? Report it.
March 21Editor, Due to recent changes in UNM Hospital’s phone system, I can no longer reach my doctor directly. Does this perhaps put my life in danger?
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Totalitarianism, thy name is booting Chick-fil-A
March 20Editor, I wish to comment on a particular event noted in your newspaper, but I also want to place it in context relative to the recent standard editorial view of the Daily Lobo as well as that of the thinking of many in our society.
