Opinion
UNM Nourish chapter needs help for Nicaragua projects
February 20Editor, The UNM chapter of Nourish International is in its first year, but it’s off to a great start.
Letters
Opinion
UNM’s thinkers should stop butting heads, work together
February 17Editor, The recent debacle involving the fight over light between the parking structures and the astronomy department has inspired me to write a short piece that I hope will benefit students, faculty and staff members.
Opinion
Revolutions could mean bumpy ride for America
February 17Editor, It seems like the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have inspired the people of Yemen to follow suit.
Opinion
Icky floors, shoddy stalls are an embarrassment
February 17Editor, Who can I complain to about the women’s bathrooms in Mitchell Hall? The ever-present puddles of water on the floor are bad enough, but half of the doors don’t even lock properly.
Opinion
Egypt revolution romanticized, incompatible with America
February 17Editor, Self-avowed anarchist-socialist Noam Chomsky hopes that Wisconsin protests will turn into a nationwide “democracy uprising,” just like in Egypt.
Opinion
Despite history of dictators, Arab countries want freedom
February 17Editor, Through its human and intellectual mass, Egypt became the heart and center of the contemporary Arab world.
Opinion
Staff member: Be wary of HR’s cell phone upgrade offer
February 15Editor, Human Resources negotiated staff discounts with various cell-phone companies, including T-Mobile.
Opinion
Online forum hurls vicious attacks instead of opinions
February 15Editor, I am writing to remark on the hostile environment that has developed in the Daily Lobo’s online comments section.
Opinion
Graduate students ask state legislators for employee status
February 15Editor, I am writing to support SB 400, recognizing graduate assistants, teaching assistants, research assistants and project assistants as employees as introduced by Sen.
Opinion
Daily Lobo writer’s errors call into question veracity of work
February 15Editor, I submit this to you for your information. Andrew Beale has written a column with errors. I believe he needs a refresher class on journalistic integrity and proper research. Beale has two errors in, “NM could become New Arizona.” The first is regarding the number of murders in El Paso, Texas.
Opinion
ASUNM court wants to make government more accessible
February 14Editor, In my year and a half on the ASUNM Student Court, we have not heard a single case. This isn’t to say that we’ve done nothing in this time.
Opinion
U.S. wants Americans to keep stealing, hogging resources
February 10Editor, The United States has deliberately supported bloody, greedy regimes that have robbed, tortured and murdered their own people in dozens of nations: Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Zaire, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rhodesia, South Africa, Pakistan, Brunei, Argentina, Liberia, Honduras, Paraguay, Panama, El Salvador, Indonesia, Taiwan, Greece, Brazil, Portugal, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Morocco, Spain, Vietnam, Peru, Philippines, Cuba, Haiti, Chile, Guatemala, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. If we believe the U.S.
Opinion
Survival of gray wolf species can’t be left to legislators
February 7Editor, Three bills have been introduced in Congress by representatives of the Western Caucus that seek to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) so that the Act does not apply to the gray wolf.
Opinion
Now is the time to work on social, environmental future
February 7Editor, We are 33 days into 2011, and we have already experienced signs of social and climate change on a global scale.
Opinion
Egypt’s Mubarak had Uncle Sam’s blessing, funding
February 3Editor, The situation in Egypt is getting more and more, what’s the politically correct word, “unstable.” Many people are now saying that it is not a question of if President Hosni Mubarak resigns, but when.
Opinion
Let’s push lawmakers for GLBT equality in New Mexico
February 3Editor, I write to you with the hope that together we can support members of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community in its pursuit for equality. I can no longer sit around and watch my GLBT brothers and sisters’ suffering.
Opinion
University closure notices need to be more timely, considerate
February 2Editor, I believe it’s appalling how administrators decided to close campus 30 minutes before classes started.
Opinion
ElBaradei, corporations aren't interested in Egyptians' interests
February 1Editor, While it appears that Western puppet Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship is on its last legs, the outcome is still up in the air.
Opinion
Mubarak will be forced to flee unless he grants civil liberites
February 1Editor, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several other heads of state urged the Egyptian government on Sunday to implement democratic reforms and to stop further violence against protesters. Merkel told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a phone call that she expects him and his newly nominated government to grant the Egyptian people freedom of information and the right to assemble, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. She urged Mubarak, in a lengthy conversation, to open dialogue with the country’s citizens and focus on Egyptian youths’ concerns.
Opinion
U.S. government should walk the walk on Egypt democracy
January 31Editor, Democracy? I need help understanding why the government of the United States, which claims to always be promoting democracy for the people in all other nations on this planet, appears to be threatened when the people in nations like Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and Yemen take measures in their own hands to oust an oppressive ruler who denies them democracy, and replace that oppressive government with a democratic one based on the principle of “government of, by and for the people.” I think I already know the answer to that, and I do not like the answer.
