Editor, The Israel Alliance was invited to set up a table representing Israel at the annual International Festival, held by the Office of International Programs and Studies. The festival is always fun and interesting, and people work hard to have the event be successful and worthwhile.
Spring has sprung. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming and birds are singing. Outside there are happy sounds and sights galore. But inside some people, it is still a bleak winter - cold, gray and eternal. When you are very depressed, it feels like winter will never turn to spring.
Editor, "Gov. Bill Richardson established a task force to establish best practices for colleges and universities in New Mexico," UNMPD officials said in Wednesday's Daily Lobo. As usual, we are asked to place our lives in the hands of the police, rather than investigate what would truly be the best practice for New Mexico campuses: arming the citizens.
Editor, I've juggled academics and my professional life for 25 years now and, for better or worse, consider UNM to be my final resting place where I hope to finish a graduate degree this decade. Over those years, I've seen all the complaints and responses one could ever hope to see regarding the lack of communication between the undergraduate and graduate student bodies, their elected leaders, faculty and the administration with none of them ever actually making a meaningful move to change the situation.
Editor, Last week, the CIA paid a visit to campus in an event sponsored by Inspire Anderson Marketing. A student club sponsoring a top terrorist organization? What a shame. It is sad that ignorance has again come to stain the floor of our University. Do these UNM students know that the organization they brought to campus has a history that, for more than 60 years, includes planning and carrying out coups d'état and supporting dictators? Do they know that this organization is behind the killing of students, teachers and workers? Were they told that many children and mothers never saw their relatives again because they simply disappeared? Do they know that this organization trained some of the most sick-minded terrorists of the 21st century? Well, perhaps they should know.
Editor, "Counterculture"? Seems to me marijuana usage is more mainstream these days. There are lots of people who indulge in the green, not saying any names, but governors, professors, M.D.s, organization officials, law graduates, undergraduates, etc. Hell, there's even a restaurant designed to tap the pot-smoker market: Cheba Hut.
Editor, A recent ad in the Daily Lobo asserts that the extermination of Jews in World War II was a hoax and challenges "professors" to provide proof of the extermination. Since when is it OK to advance a proposition and then shift the burden of proof to others? The extermination of Jews by the Nazis was first reported in the New York Times on July 3, 1944, and was therefore a contemporaneous account.
Last fall when I announced my intention to vote for Ralph Nader for the fourth time, I was told by a number of Democrats that a vote for Nader was essentially a vote for four more years of Bush. I disagreed with them at the time, but it turns out they were right.
Editor, The U.S. Congress established the Days of Remembrance as this country's annual commemoration of Holocaust victims. These victims include not only 6 million Jews, but also millions of others killed by the Nazi regime including the mentally and physically handicapped, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), non-Jewish Polish citizens, socialists, trade unionists and political dissidents.
Editor, In response to the recent controversy surrounding the proposal of a new recreation center, I decided to draft a plan for an alternative to this $57 million center. My plan is cheaper and more energy efficient. I call it this: going outside. If or when my plan of going outside is implemented, an endless myriad of recreational activities will be available to students at virtually no cost.
Editor, Building a new recreation center would be ridiculous for three reasons. First, the survey method was faulty. If you asked me today if I wanted a Bugatti Veyron, I would say yes. If you asked me today if I wanted a Bugatti Veyron that would cost me $1.
Editor, I recently spoke with an adviser in the Anderson School of Management. Though the advisers in University College have bad reputations for being unhelpful, this adviser showed no improvement. As an adviser for the 3-2 Program with Anderson, she works with both undergrad and grad students.
Editor, It was hard to read the shocking ad "Are you a student?" from Bradley R. Smith, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, in last week's Daily Lobo by a Holocaust denier. I assume the Lobo has to publish this ad because apparently there is nothing in it that could justify refusing it.
Editor, Last week there was an article in the Daily Lobo that said UNM is a bad neighbor. It seemed to imply that UNM doesn't do enough for the community. We at the UNM Agora Crisis Center are hoping this attitude is not felt by all in the New Mexico community.
Editor, I have received two degrees from UNM since I first started attending classes in 1991. Just recently, I decided to go after another degree that has lower-level coursework requirements. To save money (as well as protest the current UNM president's administration), I decided to switch to CNM for a few semesters.
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