There are many things I hate in this world — Axe body spray, zombie spiders, AT&T’s desperate, “Please don’t leave us for Verizon” iPhone campaign — but few I feel as conflicted about as classroom group work. On one hand, group work sucks.
I am not one to judge a hipster by its cover. I don’t assume that you are one, either. But as a society, we’ve begun to profile these fixed-gear bike jockeys, and we’re using our sense of disdain to fuel a reliable stereotype.
People should give up on trying to reinvent themselves. By this point, all of the New Year’s resolutions have gone down the toilet.
Editor, 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.
Editor, We are 33 days into 2011, and we have already experienced signs of social and climate change on a global scale.
Editor, 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.
Editor, 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.
It didn’t hit me until I got back in my car. I was standing at Starbucks Wednesday morning, anxiously awaiting my tall green tea latte with two Splendas.
Albuquerque is burning for a Jim Rome visit. Please Rome, do it for the “clones” — and more specifically, Mike from Albuquerque. One of Rome’s “clones” (a nickname the radio host gives his listeners and callers), Mike sticks out in listeners’ minds, including mine.
Editor, Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. The U.S. government and U.S. campuses appear to have not learned much from the 1979 Iranian revolution and subsequent kidnapping of Western professors. Anyone familiar with yesterday’s history knows that before the current mullahcracy in Iran there was a Western-backed secular government in Tehran.
Editor, I believe it’s appalling how administrators decided to close campus 30 minutes before classes started.
I think it’s safe to assume this morning that groundhogs around the United States are seeing their shadows.
Editor, 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.
Editor, 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.
I doubt you needed the just-released UCLA survey to tell you, but you might have been surprised that apparently more than half of freshmen think they are emotionally less healthy than their neighbor.
Editor, 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.
On the first day of the legislative session, Gov. Susana Martinez told a packed House chamber that she will work to reinstate the death penalty.
Editor, I read about the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and am at once enthralled and saddened. I am enthralled that ordinary people are standing up and fighting for their rights in a peaceful and objective manner.
Ever since New Mexico Speaker of the House Ben Luján, (D-Nambe) won his primary by a fewer-than-100-vote squeaker last June, there has been much talk about the possibility of losing his leadership position. Shortly after the November general election, a challenger emerged in the form of Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces). With a House divided 37-33 (last session, the split was 45-25), Cervantes needed a coalition made up of the 33 Republicans plus three Democrats, himself included, to win the speaker’s seat. A similar coup d’etat took place 10 years ago in the Senate when Richard Romero (D-Albuquerque) with the help of a coalition of all the Republicans in the chamber plus two Democrats, removed Manny Aragon (D-South Valley) from the President Pro Tempore position. This coalition, however, had different dynamics.
Editor, Welcome back Lobos! I hope you had a relaxing break and are ready for a great spring semester.
Solutions by The State News
