“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
Gay or straight, I don’t think that I will ever understand men. Things seem normal at first, and you cannot help but imagine your future with them, but the next thing you know they won’t respond to your texts or see you again.
The fall semester is quickly approaching, and transfer students are preparing for the rigors of a four-year university. Unbeknownst to them, however, UNM has already stacked the deck against them.
Before discussions become heated and this column becomes a political battle, I want to say I’m not against Second Amendment rights. This column is not to advocate the taking of our weapons or of the breaching of our American rights.
I’d like to congratulate not only my homosexual friends, but also those with whom I’m not acquainted, for the successful defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act.
It would have been easy for NSA analyst Edward Snowden to say nothing, to stay quiet and keep doing what he was doing. It would have been easy for him to live his comfortable and lucrative life, rake in the money of his well-paid position at the American spy agency and get rich.
There’s been an article floating around Facebook and Twitter, courtesy of addictinginfo.org, about how the Founding Fathers were really the “Founding Liberals,” and how Democrats — not Republicans — have the right to claim that founding legacy for themselves.
“Dear obese Ph.D. applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.” This hateful, hurtful and deeply inaccurate statement is the work of UNM professor Geoffrey Miller.
In her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes for the esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jodie Foster said, “If you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you’d had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else.
Last Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the official enactment of the 17th Amendment, a widely accepted but nonetheless extremely controversial measure that contributed greatly to the erosion of American federalism and aided the supremacy of democracy over the rule of law in this country.
While cleaning up my girlfriend’s dorm for the summer I found a pamphlet from UNM’s Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention. At the start of the semester, they had given everybody who lived in the dorms a pamphlet entitled “Fun in the 505” that purports that “getting drunk is too easy” and offers a list of fun things to do instead of drinking.
After I turned 17, I got my first job as a busboy in the café of some casino up in Española. There, you have two choices: You can choose between doing the day shift or the night shift.
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