Editor,
Once again, the people in authority positions at UNM refuse to acknowledge that they work for UNM students.
We have passed the time when a balanced student population would have stormed the buildings and demanded a ”regime change.”
The “chosen” elite have ignored our cries. They have marginalized our complaints, and they have now used campus police to remove one of us from meeting our University president.
When the University president has neither time nor the inclination to meet with a student living in campus housing, discuss a minor problem and come to a reasonable resolution, then the time has come to politely remove him from campus.
When he no longer represents the meekest of us, he has voluntarily forfeited his position and responsibilities to represent any of us.
This is intolerable. It is indecent. This is why we have the Board of Regents, and this is a matter that should be brought to its attention.
We are the future leaders of industry, politics and even universities. We pay or borrow more money than we have to get an education — an education designed to prepare us for the future.
We are told that our moral compass, ethics, personal responsibility and education will guide our decision-making. Are we to believe that the decisions made by our president are in line with his moral compass? Were his actions ethical? Are we to believe that his decisions are founded on personal responsibility?
Think about the decision not to accept a student’s phone calls or return them.
Think about the decision to misrepresent his location and encourage staff to lie about his whereabouts. And then think about the decision to avoid a face-to-face meeting with the student waiting down the hall, and instead have the student’s own campus police remove him from the premises without an acknowledgement?
Is this the manner in which we should run corporations, govern our country or oversee the daily operations of a university?
Sorry but we’re way, way beyond apologies and teachable moments.
Shame on you Mr. President, and shame on campus police for believing that their actions were within their jurisdiction. They also work for us!
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Matt Waters
UNM student
