Editor, Back in 1991, I was halfway through graduate school when I started watching "Meet the Press." I was completing a master's degree in public administration with the intention of running for the Cleveland city council in 1993. Over the next 17 years, I have never missed a show and have always been awestruck by the method used by Tim Russert to question his guests.
Editor, We seem to have shot ourselves in the foot by demanding a campus food service other than Aramark. The MarketPlace, formerly the healthiest shop in the SUB, has vanished in the interest of making room for Mondo Subs. The previous sandwich shop offered various types of bread, vegetables and condiments, allowing students a wide variety in sandwich-making options.
Editor, The United Nations has been diplomatically trying to persuade Myanmar leaders for a long time. They tried by sending envoys. They talked with beautiful diplomatic words, but people have already known in advance that they cannot realistically hope for anything before the U.
Editor, Hello, my name is Jeremy. I'm a 23-year-old communication student from Central Connecticut State University. I'm e-mailing students and faculty all across the United States in hopes of setting up a nationwide gas strike June 17 and 18. The gas prices are gouging the pockets of millions of hardworking Americans, worst of which are the middle class and working poor.
And it's all over. After a grueling year of the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race June 7, days after Sen. Barack Obama earned enough delegates to become the party's nominee. And now that Clinton's bid has come to an end, we are left to speculate on the legacy of the first female presidential candidate with a chance at winning.
Editor, This letter is in response to the multitude of columns and letters on the Middle East this semester in the Daily Lobo. I am neither a Jew nor a Muslim by birth, nor do I have much understanding about the issues in the Middle East. Yet, I have fragmentary glimpses of the pain of the people in this area.
Editor, I'd like to thank the Daily Lobo and reporter Maggie Ybarra for her May 8 story about the creation of a student organization for military veterans. As the president of the Student Veterans of UNM, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the organization to the University community.
Editor, I read Santhosh Chandrashekar's recent column and I'm intrigued to learn more about the origins of his interest in Israel. Why on Israel's Independence Day do you find the issue of Nakba to be salient over other issues? Taking India as an example, do you find Aug.
Editor, Israel is a legally established nation under international law, established under conditions similar to those of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and several other Middle Eastern nations, whose right to exist are not at all disputed. Israel's right to exist has been disputed since the beginning, and the establishment of Israel was controversial simply because it was a Jewish state.
Editor, I've known Kevin Boyar for two years. He collects guns like thousands of people - including me - across America do. He was stupid and brought a gun to school and, therefore, should be punished according to the law. What is unacceptable, and there is plenty that is unacceptable, is that now not only does he and his family have to pay in time and money for his mistake but also become the target of the fanaticism of people here.
Editor, In a recent letter, Mae Eye stated an incorrect quote from Quran: "So, when you clash with the unbelieving infidels in battle, smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. Thus you are commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.
Editor, I live in the Student Residence Center, and I like to take a nap in the little time I have between studying and having a little fun before finals. I must say I slept through most of the gun incident and its aftermath. I was in that Greek mythology class and wondered why a student would be called out by the police standing just barely out of sight.
Editor, Two thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Balfour Declaration of independence for a national home for the Jewish people in 1948 gave back what the Romans had taken away. The only Jewish state in the world became a reality.
Editor, This is in response to Josh Hasten's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo. Since Judaism is generally passed on through the mother, let's consider Judaism, for the most part, to be a biological trait, which people have no control over, similar to race.
Editor, Sharon Warner's resignation is a stunning blow not just to the English Department but the entire University. As a former Daily Lobo editor, a graduate of the creative writing program and current MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College, this news disturbs me immensely.
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