Editor,
If Techno Man has the right to play his boom box, I want to play my boom box with my awesome, wonderful and great music just as loud as he plays his not-so-very-good music. I will stand right next to him and plug in to the University electrical system just like he does. I bet my music is better and louder than Techno Man’s music. If he plays his lousy techno music at 15 decibels, I’ll play my great atonal Screaming Cats at 25. If he goes to 28, I’ll jam it to 80.
Pretty soon all of us here on campus will be exercising our rights to play whatever music we like at the highest volume we can to drown out the other not-so-great music that others will be playing on their boom boxes at their highest volumes. Oh, what fun that will be.
James Burbank
UNM faculty
