Editor,
I am disappointed that students at an academic institution would organize a protest against an educational exhibit.
To paraphrase Saul Bellow, it is our business to keep open the channels of education. Amanda Lo, Jennifer Hunt and Gabriel Palley, mentioned in an article published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday, seem intent on keeping those channels closed for an obviously shifting set of reasons.
The primary argument for their petition and protest, presented by Lo, is that the bodies may have come from China, a country with "weak paper trails" and an execution rate 28 times that of the U.S.
I'm also disappointed that these students at an academic institution seem to be incapable of checking their facts. When presented with the truth that these bodies come from a reputable medical supplier, their justification vaporizes and renders any petitions based on that false information pointless and contemptible.
However, I must thank the students for making me aware of the exhibit and its location. I plan to take my family and friends there Saturday to examine the extraordinary beauty and remarkable creation that is our human body.
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As for the medical students' intent on shutting down this exhibit, I encourage them to take a class in recent history and learn a little about the effectiveness of protests against educational and art exhibits around the U.S.
Spreading disinformation about the exhibit and attempting to occupy moral grounds for restricting access to education is not deliberative democracy. It is merely fascism, cloaked in the sheep's clothing of freedom and fueled by fear.
Gregory Evans
UNM student
