Editor’s Note: This letter is in reference to the photo essay “Drinking for sport,” by Dylan Smith, published in the Daily Lobo May 4.
Editor,
Looking through the photo edition, I was pleased enough at what I saw until I got to the last page, where you had included beer pong as a “nontraditional sport.” This is ridiculous. Beer pong is so far from physically demanding that to call it a sport — while arguable — is just silly, especially when compared to the other sports presented. Volleyball, cricket, horseback riding, dancing, beer pong. Which one doesn’t belong in that list? Not to try and sully the reputation or the proud history of athleticism that beer pong represents, but I just wish you had given that space to an actual sport that is perhaps played by people on campus. There are folks who regularly play badminton in the gym, for instance. Or perhaps if I could toot my own horn, I might even suggest the UNM Fencing Club.
Maybe it was meant to be funny or a lark, but promotion of drinking games seems a little out of step with an issue about “nontraditional sports.”
Trace Norris
UNM student
