Opinion

President's plan to slash lab budgets not positive change

Editor, Barack Obama is going to kill New Mexico's economy. When I saw Obama talking about ridding the world of nuclear weapons and killing the missile defense shield, I cringed. I cringed because I knew this was bad news for New Mexico. I guess the majority of New Mexicans were not listening or are too stupid to connect the dots or were too happy thinking about how they were going to spend their $500 check from Exxon Mobile.

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Obama a hypocrite for asking CEOs to reduce their salaries

Editor, Recently, President Barack Obama came out in support of legislation that would implement restrictions, limits and caps on the salaries of CEOs of major corporations and businesses. Why is it OK for Obama to demand CEOs from large businesses "limit" their salaries and pay taxes when the highest CEO in the U.

American people will pay if stimulus package passes

Editor, Vice President Joe Biden said, "If we do everything right, there is still a 30 percent chance we will get it wrong" while addressing a meeting of Democrats. He, President Barack Obama, Sen. Harry Reed, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the entire New Mexican democratic congressional delegation want to borrow $1 trillion to fund their spending plan.

Students must speak up to defend campus ethnic centers

Editor, As a first-generation Chicano college student, I have always felt a little out of place in higher education. As an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, I depended on La Casa Cultural Latina and the Office of Minority Student Affairs to provide mentoring, support, tutoring and a feeling of belonging to a family.

Hiring more admins won't help educate UNM's current students

Editor, President David Schmidly's "open letter to the UNM community" leaves me wondering if I am enrolled at an educational institution or a business franchise. In his entire address, education and research are mentioned only once, and they're seemingly obligatory asides.

UNM needs to find innovative solutions to budget problems

Editor, As graduate students, we are in a precarious position. We have chosen to put faith in our own abilities as scholars and researchers to pursue careers that we genuinely believe will allow us to do what we love while benefiting the world in which we live.

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Column: The past six years: UNM's demise

I am saddened by the current state of UNM for many reasons, not the least of which is that our upper administration and regents have provided clear evidence in the press that they have no idea what the faculty, staff and students have experienced over the past six years and what our issues are.

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Board of Regents responsible for keeping University afloat

Editor, A few weeks ago, Board of Regents President Jamie Koch said he does not have to respond to faculty concerns. I found this so strange because he is the president of the Board of Regents, the highest administrative body at UNM. Don't they have to look after the interest of the University and therefore everyone that is part of it? Doesn't the president of the Board of Regents have the greatest responsibility? I have been thinking about all these attacks on President David Schmidly, and as much as I agree with the lack of confidence in his administration, I also know that the key players in our beloved University are the regents.

Programs continue to erode, endangering UNM's credibility

Editor, It is very puzzling to teach at a university where the president of the Board of Regents and the University president treat the faculty with open disrespect and as adversaries because they have questioned the diversion of institutional funds. While these administrators say they welcome dialogue, it is clear that both are dismissive of faculty voices and are concerned only that our voices might be heard by the Legislature.

University's top administrators have perpetuated fraud, abuse

Editor, I've been following pretty closely the details regarding the faculty's impending meeting with UNM's version of "The Three Blind Mice": President David Schmidly, Executive Vice President David Harris and Regents President Jamie Koch. The initial refusal of Harris and Koch to show up at the upcoming meeting addressing a possible vote of no confidence shows complete arrogance and lack of understanding from two people who know less about higher education than a wet-behind-the-ears high school teacher getting his or her first class.

Schmidly's Monday message rife with delusions, ignorance

Editor, Schmidly still doesn't get it. In last week's Monday message, he threw out a few delusional statements so preciously asinine that I'm almost inspired to pity the man - almost. First, as Schmidly has done before, he reminds us of how honest he's been to the agenda he set with the regents when he was hired.

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Koch's reappointment should be scrutinized by Legislature

Editor, UNM Regent Jamie Koch has done a disservice to the UNM community. The worst of Koch's actions was to push for the hiring of President David Schimdly, who, by most accounts, has been a disaster from the very beginning. The community of Oklahoma State warned us what was coming (Daily Lobo letter, Feb.

Faculty must be ones to raise red flag

President David Schmidly and company have accomplished something not seen since the regents attempted to hire the utterly unsuitable John Elac as president a quarter century ago: He has stirred the normally quiescent faculty to serious protest. He characterizes the outraged faculty circulating a petition for a full faculty meeting as a "small (and by inference, radical) minority," when given the long history of faculty apathy, yet more than 200 signatures are in fact an overwhelming sign of disgust with this administration.

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University should trim fat before cutting vital programs

Editor, I would not cut funding for Accessibility Services. It is an absolute necessity for disabled students to get their education. I would keep services for students from other cultures or who have limited English because they also need these services to finish their education.

Palestinians continue to play role in fueling Mideast conflict

Editor, The war in Gaza has generated much criticism toward Israel. The usual accusations of Israel committing war crimes and the hollow comparisons to the Holocaust were not late to come. However, I am suspicious of the authenticity and decency of those who demonstrate such a deep concern to the other and possess such a developed conscience.