Before I explain why I think you should vote for Rep. Tom Udall for Senate in November, I would like to dispel a couple myths about voting. Myth: It doesn't matter whom you vote for, as long as you vote. Truth: It matters very much whom you vote for. Different candidates will do vastly different things when they are in office, and those things obviously matter.
Editor, As Sen. John McCain and his vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, travel around the country, we're watching as they try to sell the McCain-Palin ticket to moderate, independent-leaning women voters who will determine the outcome of this election.
In Nick Christian's letter on Sept. 29, "Loyalty, unity necessary for success of UNM sports programs," the first reference to "paid support staff" should say "non-paid support staff."
Editor, I am a Barack Obama supporter. I have read several letters in the Daily Lobo about Sarah Palin and agree with many of the points that have been made. Yet, there are some mistakes pundits and Democrats make when criticizing her. What I believe is a poor argument of criticizing Palin is the issue of foreign policy experience.
Editor, "Those of us who love freedom and family must continue to fight for reproductive rights." Since when did love of the family include elimination of its youngest member? The opinion that abortion is a woman's right has changed dramatically in recent years since science via ultrasounds has proven what conservatives have known all along.
Editor, I want to give a brief response to Jason Darensburg's outrageously ignorant letter about Sarah Palin. He viciously calls her a woman who hates women and loves war, but how can Palin be a misogynist if she's a member of Feminists for Life of America, which is America's largest pro-life feminist organization? The organization describes itself as shaped by the core feminist values of justice, nondiscrimination and nonviolence.
Ever since the decision was made to allow the presidential nominee to pick a running mate, it has been a point of strategy to decide who would best fill out each party's ticket. With the politics of running mates and every other detail of a campaign under great scrutiny, it is more important than ever to make every detail perfect.
John McCain surprised many people when he chose Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska to be his vice president. She was not well-known by most people, but since her nomination and acceptance at the Republican Convention, it seems people either love her or hate her. These sentiments are strongly influenced by one's political standing.
Editor, As an employee who deals daily with students and prospective students of UNM, I cannot imagine trying to direct students off campus to access basic services currently available in the Student Services Center. Students conduct the majority of their school business on campus and have little time to now commute off campus for these basic services.
Editor, I am in my fourth year at UNM, and over the years I have become all too familiar with the unbearably long lines (that at least I could avoid by taking a number, going to class and then coming back to Financial Aid only to wait another half hour before service), the miscommunication that often ensues between myself, the Financial Aid Office, the Scholarship Office and Cashier Department, and, finally, with the boisterous bureaucratic bumblings of misinformed, ill-mannered and unfriendly higher-ups at Student Services.
Editor, This University's inability to properly gauge the needs of its students has again been demonstrated in the recent mass e-mail sent in response to an article concerning the new Student Success Center. Is the University seriously suggesting that creating such a facility as this one mile from campus will help students? Off the top of my head, I can point out several problems.
Editor, As an alumna and current staff member, the proposed move of the Student Services Center off campus seems to not be considering all of the impacts on students, staff and faculty. While I don't disagree that a more coordinated approach to handling our relationship with students would be beneficial, moving Student Services off campus addresses the space issue of how to get these services integrated, but it leaves out the most important piece: service to students.
Editor, It is absolutely ridiculous to move the Financial Aid and Scholarship offices off Main Campus. Main Campus is the flagship of the University, and all of its student services should be available there. These services should be located in a convenient place where most of the students are.
Editor, If you regularly eat at the La Posada cafeteria, you will have noticed the signs on the doors for "tray-less days," which entails making everyone go without a tray for at least one day of the week. No trays; you carry your own plate. According to the signs, it will save food and lower energy costs and water use given the fact that they will have less to wash.
Editor, Although the Beijing Olympics are over, their many abominations are not. Twenty years after the 1988 Seoul Olympics doping scandal, athletes around the world still say that if Canadian sprint star Ben Johnson had been a U.S. athlete, he would have kept his gold medal.
Editor, Welcome to the social event of the season: the gathering of goal-oriented goal-getters. Welcome to a Saturday on South Campus: a Lobo football game. I come from the Northeast. It's a place where sports loyalty is fundamentally established. So it came as a shock to me when I found an overall lack of enthusiasm toward the game's outcome.
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