Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the letter “UNM on the losing end of private-sector deals,” published in Friday’s Daily Lobo. In his letter, reader Robert L. Anderson writes about the “failing proposition” of UNM spending money to subsidize high-tech, private-sector research.
Editor,
Kudos to Robert Anderson for pointing out an expense of “research” and its possible benefits to UNM. This should cause a little more scrutiny on several other expenditures around the campus. UNM Hospital’s outsourcing TriCore testing labs, placing UNM far-flung testing clinics around the city, the garish new “privatized” dorm on campus and other multimillion dollar projects. Are these truly to the benefit of students, faculty or academia? Last I heard, we are still in the bottom 10 on the list of the nation’s universities with lowest salaries and other benefits. Yet tuition still goes up. I think we should demand copies of the last 20 years of tax returns from the regents.
Jack Smeltzer
Daily Lobo reader
