GPSA resolutions are vague, a waste of funding and time
January 25Editor, This coming Monday, Jan. 25, the Graduate and Professional Student Association will be holding special elections to consider four resolutions passed by the GPSA in the fall.
Editor, This coming Monday, Jan. 25, the Graduate and Professional Student Association will be holding special elections to consider four resolutions passed by the GPSA in the fall.
Editor, On Dec. 5, the Graduate and Professional Student Association Council overwhelmingly voted to have the GPSA membership’s voice heard by having a special election with regard to how Senior Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs handled the Locksley/Gerald incident.
Many college students are deeply in debt today. An average debt recently quoted on the news mentioned a figure of $22,000, and the debts of students going into preprofessional graduate programs are far higher, amounting to six-digit sums.
Editor, This is an open letter to all graduate students: In the upcoming days the Graduate and Professional Student Association will be asking you to vote in a special election.
So you got a new PC and it runs on a Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. First off, congratulations!
Editor, As a senior at UNM I am familiar with the biannual task of purchasing textbooks. Like many students, I am aware of the racket involved in textbook prices.
Editor, Here it is once again — basketball season. It seems to last forever. I may be naïve, but I have a couple of observations to make.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday serves as an annual reminder of two of this country’s highest ideals — serving others and the creation of an equitable society.
Editor, All hail KUNM radio! I was glad to see an article in your Jan. 11 issue concerning KUNM radio and UNM students.
Dear Dr. Peg I enjoyed your column on balding in the Dec. 8 issue of the Daily Lobo. At 52 years old, balding has never been a problem for me.
Dear Editor, Exactly one month ago, I made a choice to ride the city bus to work at UNM main campus.
Happy New Year! Welcome back to school. I hope you got some rest and had some fun over the break. This semester boasts not only a new year but a new decade.
Editor, UNM soccer player Elizabeth Lambert made Time Magazine’s Top 10 Pariahs, along with Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom, and Bernie Madoff. While Lambert’s actions were reprehensible, the appropriate discipline was meted out and we need to place the whole matter into perspective, relative to some of the others on the list. Lambert’s actions took place amidst an already heated physical contest with a conference rival. We watch football players cheap shot, trip, hold and brawl constantly.
Editor, Sprouting possibilities, growing potential, it is great to see more and more people interested in sustainable practices and sustainable methods here at the University of New Mexico.
Editor, I take much interest in the political letters submitted to this publication, even the ones I don’t agree with.
Around eight million people are expected to be victims of identity theft in 2009. With the holiday shopping season upon us, here are a few tips that may help you from becoming an identity theft statistic: Reduce the number of credit and debit cards you carry in your wallet and keep track of the cards you do carry.
Editor, The reason the 80 percent cutoff point for establishing the 250 pages per semester free printing limit at the computer labs is flawed (80 percent of students printed out less than 250 pages) is because it puts people who print out 251 pages in the same category as those who print out excessive amounts (10,000, as one student did). The policy-setters have thus determined that 251 pages equals excess, and also decided to literally tax or raise tuition for those students who printed between 251 and whatever real excess is.
Editor, It would be nice to read an article on a scientific topic that actually addressed the science involved, instead of focusing on pseudo-journalistic political twaddle.
Editor, We, as part of the Peruvian community at UNM, would like to protest the publication of the article “Images of Peru: A Daily Lobo reporter’s journey to South America” on Dec. 1. We would also like to denounce the unethical way the Daily Lobo has handled the complaints of many concerned readers.
Editor, I would like to commend the Daily Lobo for providing an immediate correction and apology for erroneously depicting a student as an undocumented student in the newspaper’s Dec.