Editor,
In the article about the GPSA on Tuesday, the Daily Lobo reported, “As a result of protests and chaos … a number of people were injured and the New Mexico National Guard was called in, he said.” This implies that the events occurred in the following order: protests and chaos, then people were injured, then the National Guard was called in.
Perhaps that is what Bill Pickens said, but that was not the sequence of events. I know this because I was a graduate student at the time and was present at the events.
The sequence of events was: protest and, I guess, chaos, although things were pretty organized inside the SUB, then the New Mexico National Guard was called in by Gov. David Cargo, who was not even present in New Mexico at the time, and then people were injured.
I am writing this letter because it is amazing how history gets rewritten if people are not vigilant about it.
Patsy Gregory
UNM alumna
