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The Setonian
Opinion

Professor praises provost on summer travel safety

Editor, As a director of Conexiones 2010, I very much appreciate Tricia Remark’s recent article, “Provost: Juarez Unfit for Travel.”   Conexiones/Mexico, under the auspices of the University Honors Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has served as many as 600 UNM students with a Spanish language/Mexican culture program of studies since 1986, located in our field center in Morelia, Michoacan. This year we arrived at the sad decision that security issues both at the border and in Michoacan were elevated to the extent that our ability to present the program was compromised.


The Setonian
Opinion

Professor: I didn't backpedal

Editor, In wishing President Schmidly a speedy recovery from his current health problem, I did not “backpedal” (as your headline indicated). I continue to uphold the substance of my comments at the teaching awards ceremony about the deterioration in UNM’s educational mission under President Schmidly’s leadership. Howard Waitzkin UNM professor




The Setonian
Opinion

Elimination of oil waste rules would be a toxic mistake

Editor, The campaign for the governor’s office has opened with a barrage of words promising to change or eliminate the “pit rule,” a state rule that requires disposal of toxic drilling wastes in certified landfills rather than burial at the drilling site.




The Setonian
Opinion

UNM puts salary-affecting stipulations on teachers

Editor, I congratulate Professor Melissa Bokovoy for sharing with readers the current state of education at UNM, and in particular, for her solidarity with the “poorly compensated part-time faculty.” I encourage other faculty members and students to publicly share their thoughts and experiences regarding these matters.


The Setonian
Opinion

The people with guns will save everyone from the socialists

Editor, I made the point to some of my second-amendment friends that, as a deterrent to federal tyranny, a group of local boys with assault rifles would be no use at all against the invincible technical superiority of American military and law enforcement power.



The Setonian
Opinion

University's budget priorities out of whack, need overhaul

Editor, To commemorate the second-year anniversary of UNM’s General Faculty meeting (on April 30), in whichthe faculty came together to discuss Scholes Hall’s spending priorities: Budgets are about priorities and anyone looking at UNM’s budget realizes how much ground the educational mission of the main campus has lost in the last few years.



The Setonian
Opinion

Anti-America column displays wisdom comparable to Dr. King

Editor, Andrew Beale begins his column for the Daily Lobo “Hypocritical US takes part in terrorism constantly” with the following statement: “The United States government is the largest terrorist organization operating today.” In Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech “Beyond Vietnam,” he comes to a similar conclusion when he says: “(My own government is) the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Not much has changed since then.





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