Editor,
I happen to be friends with an NMPIRG representative, Katryn Fraher, and a former NMPIRG employee. I am very happy to see people my age, in college, working for a better future and challenging the way politicians approach us.
Fraher and the leaders of NMPIRG allow students to voice their opinions. They sacrifice their time to facilitate the student voice through activities like the New Voters Project. They stood in the middle of Smith Plaza with signs to tell students to register to vote. They registered more than 1,000 students to vote here at UNM. They also followed up this voter blitz with another project, where they had students sign forms to pledge they would vote. They called back a week later - days before the election - to remind students to vote.
More often than not, people need something to shock them out of the apathy that is their lives. Not only is Fraher a prime
example of an activist who cares about where her country is going - a rarity these days due to the over-stimulus of MTV and the media's bombardment of our youth with images of what we should look like, rather than what we should care about - the entire NMPIRG student chapter also seems to be one of the few student or political organizations that is really doing anything these days.
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Gabriel Chavez
UNM student
