Opinion

Baby boomers are passionate about creating better future

Editor, I feel compelled to respond to Jeffrey Harrisman's sweeping indictment of baby boomers. Perhaps Harrisman is not aware that there are plenty of us boomers on staff who are not especially tickled to be told we won't get a raise this year, that our departments cannot purchase needed equipment or supplies or to watch apparent cronyism siphon off those funds that could be used for purposes we consider much more worthy than another VP or repairs and upgrades to the stadium or golf course.

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A society of Schraders would lack government, infrastructure

Editor, I thought Chuck Hoskins' praise to Don Schrader is absolutely ridiculous. Don Schrader is an overtly gay man who contributes nothing to our society, who intently lives below the U.S. poverty level so he doesn't have to pay taxes to Uncle Sam. He has no medical insurance for himself and walks around 80 percent naked when the weather allows him to do so.

Americans should focus passion to improve community, country

Editor, I never thought I could be this moved by politics. I never thought I would be moved to donate money to a political campaign. I never thought I would cry at an election speech. I never thought I would wake up with feelings of hope and opportunity because of an election.

Correction

The letter to the editor published in Monday's Daily Lobo, "Schrader's lifestyle teaches responsible global citizenship," was written by Chuck Hoskins, a part-time instructor at UNM. The letter has no affiliation with Charles Hoskins, the lecturer for the Naval ROTC program.

Abortion not comparable to modern civil rights injustices

Editor, I was appalled to read the column titled "Abortion a modern-day injustice" in Monday's Daily Lobo not only for its staunch hypocrisy but its clever misuse of "the facts." Comparing the injustices of slavery and racism to that of abortion and the reproductive rights of women is about as naive and ludicrous as one might consider arguing.

Schmidly, regents support entertainment over faculty

Editor, I wonder if President David Schmidly and the regents read the newspapers or watch TV news. As I was reading the Daily Lobo story on how poor UNM is and how it needs to freeze workers' salaries and hiring, I saw a TV story on how UNM is getting ready to spend $60 million for renovations to The Pit.

We must keep our pre-election sense of patriotism, duty

Editor, The promise I intend to pursue is the intention to keep doing what we've been doing every day since the Democratic primary season was taken away from us - giving our perspective on the most important issues we're facing from a moderate, Hillary Clinton Democrat's point of view.

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Children's Campus employees not valued or paid enough

Editor, According to the payroll directory on reserve in Zimmerman Library, President David Schmidly makes almost $400,000 annually. David Harris, his executive vice president, makes almost $300,000 a year. While these cats speak of saving money in this time of economic strife, child care providers at the UNM Children's Campus make less than $20,000 a year.

Baby boomer administrators are ruining public education

Editor, Bravo! Richard M. Berthold's criticism of President David Schmidly was right on. Unfortunately, Schmidly is just a peon in the scope of mediocre, pit-bull administrators who have been put in place to forward the "new world order" agenda of oppression and fraud.

Staff raises should take priority over renovation of The Pit

Editor, President David Schmidly, I am extremely pissed and disillusioned to hear that The Pit will be renovated to a tune of $60 million when you have been sending us all these e-mails about how there are going to be budget cuts and, more importantly, you have asked staff to forego raises this year.

Regents need to use common sense for hiring, spending

Editor, Despite a spending and hiring freeze across the University and the distinct possibility that once again staff and faculty will receive no salary increase, the regents and President David Schmidly's overpaid administration feel it's OK to go ahead with the renovation of The Pit because the money comes from a different source.

Schmidly's actions won't give professors a reason to stay

Editor, As a UNM student, I am appalled and disappointed in President David Schmidly's decision to, among other things, halt the hiring and pay increases of professors. There are alternative ways of saving money. Other universities, like Florida International University, are successfully exploring a four-day college week.

Freeze should be placed on VPs' salaries, not professors'

Editor, Freezing hiring and salaries is just great. I wonder why it is always this way. Why would you freeze salaries just months after UNM hired so many vice presidents? President David Schmidly, why don't you tell the new VPs they shouldn't come to work because we don't have money for their salaries? Couldn't you tell them that with their salaries a good number of professors could get a little increase in theirs? What's next - increasing tuition? Increasing the football coach's salary? Or maybe what's next is a millionaire investment to renovate The Pit.

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UNM needs to solve problems by addressing them directly

Editor, President David Schmidly, you've been the man in charge of keeping this University running for more than a year now, and I don't have to tell you how important first impressions are for such a big job. Since last October, you have begun running UNM less like a university and more like a corporation.

Column: Abortion a modern-day injustice

I have often asked myself this question: If I lived during the time of legalized slavery, would I have recognized that slavery was unjust and opposed it, or would I have accepted it as part of normal, everyday life? As the saying goes, hindsight is 20-20. Americans recognize that slavery was unjust.

Schrader's lifestyle teaches responsible global citizenship

Editor, Why is it that so many people are threatened by Don Schrader's way of life? Is it because it points to the hypocrisy in our own lives? In Jason Graves' letter, he complains of judgmental criticism and then proceeds to do exactly that regarding Schrader.