Editor, There is a lot of discourse taking place these last few days in regards to the moral appropriateness of a general celebratory attitude surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.
This is the time of year when I wave my arms and shout into the void, helplessly hoping that I can convince you to take care of yourself.
Editor, I read the article in the April 26 issue about the smoking ban as “tobacco totalitarianism.” While I was not surprised by people’s resistance to the ban, it baffles me that smoking is an issue for our generation.
Editor, Now that former CIA agent Osama bin Laden is dead, can we please start hunting down the real masterminds behind 9-11?
Dear President David Schmidly: I am a graduate student at UNM. I am writing to ask you to please reject the proposed changes to the makeup of UNM’s Student Fee Review Board — that is, amending the current voting student members from three graduates and four undergrads to two grads and seven undergrads.
Editor, First, I want to clarify that I love the U.S., and that I know our liberties are unprecedented in the history of the modern world. However, should we really still consider our country to be exceptional?
Editor, In Thursday’s Daily Lobo, Opinion Editor Nathan New blasted Donald Trump and conservatives.
Breakfast Being the most important meal of the day, it is often ignored by us collegiate heroes and heroines.
In the course of celebrity worship, the laughing-stock is a much-examined figure. Whether destitute or tactless, their failings are our greatest entertainment and often a mirror for our own unpublicized shame.
Editor, It has happened again. Another random act of kindness on campus. Well, it might not be such a big deal to many, but to me it most certainly is. Sometime last week I misplaced my water bottle.
Editor, I’d like to point out the irony in the Wednesday’s edition where one student is attempting to get her fellow peers to read more for enjoyment while below her another student, Chris Rodriguez, is spouting ignorant Islamophobic rhetoric, not to mention historical fallacies about a group of people he knows nothing about.
Editor, Ah, the smoking ban … most certainly implemented by nonsmokers, for if any of them had any idea at all how difficult it is to quit smoking, they just may quit complaining about smokers’ inability to submit to the ban. While I appreciate that the ban has helped me to cut down on my smoking, I just want the nonsmokers to know that they will never have a 100 percent ban as long as withdrawals exist.
Editor, Arab leaders also have poor track records in the Middle East. Lately the catch word is “occupation” and the “West.” Funny enough, let us check the history of Arab leadership and occupations of others. There is a long history of brutal Arab occupation of other’s lands and forced cultural change.
Editor, Consume! How will you defend buying that cup of coffee this morning, the hamburger at noon, the cigarettes for your afternoon, or the TV dinner you plan on eating alone?
Editor, To the candidates for UNM Provost: I am writing to you as a student with a disability — in this case, spinal cord injury.
I’m looking at the front page of Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal. The top headlines are related to alcohol abuse. The big one reads, “NOT GUILTY” in big, bold all-caps.
Editor, In a recent letter to the Daily Lobo, Randi Beck wrote that a “successful student protest” regarding budgetary matters was practically unknown as far as she knew.
My girlfriend and I moved in together last semester. We both go to school and both work, but we’re not making enough money to keep up.
Editor: I would like to provide a short response to Andrew Beale’s Earth Day column in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo.
Fellow citizens of the blue planet, Happy Earth Day 2011! All over the nation, people are gathering en masse to celebrate, both in appreciation of the natural world and because they want to raise awareness about some of today’s environmental woes: climate change, saving the polar bears, whales and sea turtles of the world, and preserving those beautiful, high-definition, TV-quality places featured in the “Planet Earth” series from being encroached upon by another Stepford wives subdivision. When asked, most people would say that they support these issues (how else are you going convince that cute hippie chick in Greek history to sleep with you?) But at the end of the day, have you really done anything to help?
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