Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the letter, “Cartoon fails to illustrate Abdallah’s greatness,” published in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo. In the letter, President Robert Frank addresses an editorial cartoon that depicted Provost Chaouki Abdallah as a vampire, calling it inaccurate and unfair with respect to Abdallah’s accomplishments at UNM.
Editor,
I would like to echo Dr. Frank’s letter in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo.
The UNM community in general and students in particular have no better advocate than Dr. Abdallah. His commitment to students is a matter of public record. I think it’s apparent that the opinion page’s cartoons often appear to be intentionally incendiary, but I don’t recall having seen one that I felt wasn’t based in reality in some way — until now. The idea that Dr. Abdallah is somehow draining the student body of its life is out of line because it has no basis in reality. I support the Lobo’s right to publish content that may be offensive to some, but I was surprised to see something that offended because of its display of ignorance, not because I didn’t agree with its point of view.
Greg Gómez
UNM staff member
