Editor,
I am writing in regard to the article about UNM's image on the front page of Friday's Daily Lobo. After several straight years of unruly tuition increases and the loss of printed course catalogs, I learned that the University is spending its money on a brand consulting firm.
I'm paying tuition so my teachers can have a livelihood and the campus can be kept in good shape. I'm not paying tuition so Richard Kilmer can have his cushy consulting job and upper-middle-class lifestyle without contributing anything worthwhile to society.
He should get a real job.
The regents have to be either complete morons or utterly corrupt for hiring this guy. I have a wacky idea: take the money you were going to use to have UNM branded, and use it instead to raise professor salaries and recruit more professors at the top of their fields. If UNM started seriously attracting more of the country's top teaching talent, we would hardly need to advertise. The students we want would flock here from around the world. UNM would sell itself.
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Jude Nowicki
UNM student
