Editor, The GPSA president and council chairs receive a lot of money for what they do. They receive tuition reimbursements and large stipends. In fact, a big percentage of the GPSA president's tuition is paid by you and me. I've been a graduate student at UNM for the past 2 1/2 years without ever noticing GPSA.
Editor, One thing I have learned from my experience of community organizing and campus activism is that one person does not make an organization. GPSA is not about one student or leader, Joseph Garcia or any council representative or other leader. We tend to operate with the myth that people act alone - that Rosa Parks wasn't a trained NAACP organizer working with many other activists, or César Chávez didn't have the help of thousands of organizers working with him in the United Farm Workers.
Editor, I understand the contract with Aramark, the sole food-services provider at UNM, is up. Requests for proposals have been issued and UNM has received bids from two companies besides Aramark. This is great news, because if you listen to dormitory-dwelling undergraduates, the quality of the food Aramark provides is no better than prison food, and there's a reason for this.
Editor, Don Schrader, in a letter published in the Daily Lobo on Monday, said a vote for any potential candidate is a vote for murder. I mostly agree with him. I would completely agree with him were it not for Rep. Ron Paul. Paul is the only candidate who not only opposes the war but also opposes the building and keeping of an American empire.
Last week, President Bush's theorists introduced a revolutionary new principle in the field of logic: the Causal Trifle. Responding to criticism that the Israeli government's annexation of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem threatens to derail negotiations, the Bush administration countered with the logic that seemed to puzzle an exhausted White House press corps.
Editor, Aramark, the provider of food not only to UNM but to numerous state penitentiaries as well, is one of the biggest abusers of workers' rights by exploiting its hold on numerous campuses around the country. When Aramark promised to renovate the dining hall, Arizona State University gladly signed a $30 million contract, unwittingly putting itself at the whim of Aramark for subsequent years to come.
Editor, I have to express sharp disagreement with the letter by Chris Perry published in the Daily Lobo on Monday regarding guns and safety on campus. His suggestion to allow concealed handgun licensees to carry guns on campus is half-baked at best. At worst, it's quite disturbing.
Editor, There is not a dime's worth of difference between most Republican and Democrat politicians, including Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, on robbing and murdering multitudes of people worldwide for the U.S. empire. The most powerful submarine was built at a cost of $3.
Editor, Are you voting for a person based on race or gender? If you are, your vote is dishonorable. I heard an elderly woman on TV say she is voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton because she wants to see a woman president in her lifetime. I have a friend who is voting for a candidate only because she is Hispanic.
Editor, Are you fed up with Aramark? This is the campus food provider that penalizes students who don't eat three times a day, fails to offer competitive meal prices and makes student organization meetings in the SUB excessively expensive by overcharging for catering services.
Editor, As a former justice of the GPSA Court of Review, I am greatly disappointed that Joshua Allison and Christopher Shank resigned from the court. This would have left me as the sole justice on the court, except I, too, resigned from the court on Saturday.
Editor, The letter by Peter Lynch published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday regarding separate ceremonies and events based on race raises a valid question: "Are you doing more harm than good by these actions?" It took many years and great courage to finally end the injustice of segregation based on race.
Editor, The photograph on the front page of the Feb. 15 issue of the Daily Lobo is telling of why American schools are continuously under assault from unstable or otherwise violent individuals. Looking past the gurney with a bloodied victim and the ambulance, readers see several photographers snapping photos that have become today's headlines in local, national and international editions.
Editor, "It's done by the semester, if you had been listening" was GPSA president Joseph Garcia's response to a legitimate question about staff stipends over the weekend. For those of you who have not had the privilege of attending GPSA meetings throughout the year, this sort of behavior has been the trademark of Garcia, Finance Chairman Isaac Padilla and others.
Editor, While many so-called scientists try to make the unsuspecting public think that global warming is real and a threat to human life, some new data is coming out to the contrary. freerepublic.com reports British scientists as saying global warming could end up saving thousands of lives.
Editor, I find Andres Saenz's letter published in Tuesday's Daily Lobo amusing. The attitude he expresses clearly reveals his level of ignorance and bigotry. First of all, he didn't really address Wayne Silva's point at all, which was that it's really OK for children to know about sex - not, as Saenz would have people believe, that children ought to have promiscuous sex when they're ready even at a really young age.
Editor, In Inuktitut, a language spoken in the Arctic, the Inuit translate lawyer into a man who is lying for you. Since their early contact with Western expansionism, the Inuit have understood that colonialism seeks its justification in a self-assisting mendacity that overflows with embellished lies.
Editor, This letter is in response to the "Lobolition" to be held March 4 where students can vent their frustrations on a salvage vehicle to benefit the athletic clubs. In a way to show school spirit, students are invited to take a bat and have at it. I personally do not understand the violent and wasteful display.
Editor, I must take issue with Andres Saenz's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday. I believe it is Saenz who should indeed have his facts checked. First of all, not all sex leads to having children. Many more teenagers would not have children to put up for adoption if they didn't have sex - this much is true.
Editor, This letter is in response to the article published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday on the BA/MD program. The article claims students in the BA/MD program are stealing away spots from other pre-medical students in science classes, specifically biology.
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