Editor,
I've been looking over the proposed budget cuts, and it occurred to me that although some progress has been made in eliminating idiotic programs, the proposed changes do not go far enough.
Here are some measures that would help get UNM out of its current financial straits:
1. Eliminate the Women's Studies Department, African Studies Department and
Hispanic Studies Department. These pseudo-historical subjects appear to be devoted entirely to lying to students. They serve no purpose. Get rid of them.
2. Eliminate support services, ethnic centers and anything devoted to specifically helping nontraditional students, nonwhites or transfers. Anyone who can't get through college without help has no business here.
3. Stop handing out Lottery Scholarships to any moron who can keep his or her GPA above a D average, which at UNM essentially means that you have minimal brain activity and showed up to class more than half the time. Not only would this free up state funds to devote to students who actually have some hope of learning and are suited to something other than unskilled labor, but it would cut down on vandalism and related expenses by reducing the number of hoodlums on campus. It would also reduce class sizes, thereby increasing performance and eliminating the dullards who have made UNM a laughingstock among people who know things about colleges. If you can't afford $5,000 a year for college, you shouldn't be here.
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Lawrence Allen
UNM student
