Editor, As a Religious Studies major who happens to be Muslim, I recently signed up for classes related to my religion of choice: Islam.
Editor, As a former student member of the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers program, I was dismayed and outraged to find out that it’s at risk of being discontinued.
Editor, The recent Daily Lobo article on the construction of a new parking lot has drawn attention, yet again, to the University’s problems with traffic in and around the campus area.
Editor, This is the first letter I have written to the newspaper because there has been nothing I felt so passionate about until now.
President Barack Obama’s relief at the agreement that could quiet the political crisis over Afghanistan’s spoiled election masks his predicament as he weighs an expansion of the unpopular Afghanistan war. The administration says its ambitious plans for Afghanistan rely on a “credible partner” in Kabul.
Editor, I am pleased to see that over 50 percent of the people who have voted so far in this week’s online poll recognize Fox News as nothing more than a mouthpiece for conservative-based propaganda.
Editor, Last November, many students voted for the first time in their lives after they chose not to do so in previous elections. The saying that “money talks, people walk” still rings true.
Editor, Instead of building a $17 million parking structure at Lomas and Yale boulevards, UNM Parking and Transportation Services should simply construct a $50 bus stop for its ubiquitous shuttles. A shuttle stop at Lomas and Yale would give faculty, students and staff easy access to the city buses that pass by there almost every 10 minutes.
Editor, The Bible contains some of the worst poison crap and some of the best precious wisdom ever written.
In the special interest war over health care, the White House and congressional Democrats have the nation’s drug makers and hospitals generally on their side; the insurance industry, not so much. Now the bill’s supporters are making a play to lock in the American Medical Association, the organization that says it represents 250,000 doctors and medical students in every state and congressional district.
Swine flu is here. It is all over New Mexico, including here at UNM. Have you had it yet? How about your friends and classmates?
Editor, I’m constantly amazed at how the Albuquerque Journal consistently misses the boat on great news stories.
Editor, Coach Locksley is being locked out of work for 10 days for his attack on a fellow coach, and his paycheck will be docked about $29,000.
Editor, Adam R. Burnett’s article, “Sukkot makes joyful noise,” in the Oct. 12 issue, contained a number of factual errors and misleading statements that deserve clarification. First, Sukkot is a Jewish Holiday that has been celebrated continuously and joyfully by the mainstream Jewish community for thousands of years.
Editor, UNM’s decision to suspend head football coach Mike Locksley for 10 days amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist and serves as yet another illustration of the lengths those in power will go to in order to protect themselves and each other from the inconveniences of personal responsibility. Locksley publicly acknowledged becoming involved in a “physical altercation” with one of his assistant coaches following the Lobos’ loss to Air Force last month, citing the pressures of his job as the cause of his otherwise “inexcusable” actions. In a recent press conference, Athletics Director Paul Krebs asserted that no one witnessed Locksley’s admitted indiscretion — as if surveillance alone should govern one’s actions, as if the questions surrounding this incident had only to do with innocence, guilt and “hard” evidence and nothing to do with competence, character or leadership. A head football coach making $750,000 a year who lacks the modicum of self-restraint and discipline required to avoid getting into what he himself calls a physical altercation with a subordinate is manifestly unfit for the job, and a 10-day suspension will not change that. Past and present administrators and coaches have publicly bemoaned UNM’s “lack of school spirit.” But how are we to take pride in an institution that does not demand a higher standard from those it places in positions of prominence?
Editor, Reading between the lines on the “amicable” settlement of the Sylvia Lopez sexual harassment case against coach Locksley: I’m pretty sure what it means is that Ms. Lopez gets her UNM job back and, I hope, a big hunk of money in exchange for withdrawing her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claim and making the public statement as reported in the article in the Daily Lobo — all of course while promising not to ever say anything against Locksley again.
Editor, I’ve come across the writings of two of our faculty members who thought it fashionable to use the word “imaginary” as a noun, as in “the American imaginary.” One was in a research paper and the other in a proposed title of a book.
Recently, there has been discussion on and off campus about Network Access Control, or NAC. Some folks have complained that NAC is slowing them down; others have said that NAC installs malicious software onto their computers; and still others think that NAC was a good band while they lasted (by the way, the 80s band was called “The Knack” not “NAC.”) So … let’s clear the air. NAC is a computer network security technology recently implemented at UNM.
Iran confirmed last week that it is building a previously undisclosed nuclear-enrichment plant inside a military base near the city of Qum.
Editor, Regarding “Sukkot makes joyful noise,” although I was pleased to see on the front page of the Oct.
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