Editor,
Being a student at UNM is not an easy thing. It is particularly difficult for students with disabilities.
We face bone-grinding discrimination, discrimination that actually allows senior departmental administrators to enter classrooms while classes are going on and take away the accessible supports of disabled students with absolute impunity.
I mention this after reading the incredible whining of John Taber, chairman of the philosophy department, published in Tuesday's Daily Lobo.
President David Schmidly was brought to UNM to clean up the entrenched, bone-grinding discrimination that prevails at the University, entrenched discrimination that fetters students of color and students with disabilities and has prevented UNM from developing from an over-funded, backwater college, mired in the eddy currents of ignorance into a first-class, fully accessible University.
It is painfully clear that Schmidly should remove the tenured Taber and many of his overfed, pompous counterparts and offer their shallow, withered roots to be used as kindling for Zozobra in Sante Fe.
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Frank Martin
UNM student
