Editor,
I graduated from UNM last spring and still receive the e-mail version of the Daily Lobo. To be honest, I rarely even open it, but for whatever reason I did today. I read the "America's Favorite Drug" column, as it had a catchy title.
It states that Zimmerman Library has the only Starbucks located in a university library in the country. I am staffed at a reference desk at a university library to supplement my lowly graduate-student stipend, and I look right across at a cafe that serves Starbucks coffee within the library.
Maybe one should differentiate between a Starbucks outlet and a place that happens to serve Starbucks products.
After all, to use the drug reference, it is still heroin if you buy it off the importer or a street dealer. Does the designation depend on royalties, as may be the case with a true Starbucks? It is all the same to the junked-out patrons. It's on par with Wal-Mart, except I have never seen that smiley face in a subset of another business.
It is some pretty dang good coffee, though, but instead of giving me the first hit for free, they give me every 10th for free - the dealer in this way ensures our business.
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Anyway, Zimmerman is not the only place doing the selling.
Brandon Pearson
Bucknell University student
