Editor, The cynical attacks against GPSA's Student Research Allocation Committee are trumped-up charges that a small agitated group is fabricating as an excuse to ruin the standing of GPSA. Wednesday's article in the Daily Lobo attributes to Jason Thomas the statement that students should have received the SRAC grant award notifications in mid-September.
Editor, I would like to state my opinion in response to the article on the GPSA president recall petition published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday. If those who are organizing the recall want to talk about democracy, I would like to know why they are not trying to first talk about the problems they see rather than go to the extreme of launching a petition for a recall of GPSA President Joseph Garcia.
Editor, UNM is amazing. The letter from Mary Vosevich published in the Daily Lobo on Monday about all that UNM is doing to achieve sustainability and the disappearance of recycling bins from UNM hallways are classic examples of wonderful-sounding talk short-circuited by occurrences that point in exactly the opposite direction.
Editor, You published two letters from the Middle East Peace and Justice Alliance in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. Lori Rudolph decries that the Palestinians are "overlooked and falsely represented as terrorists by our media." Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh provides the usual weary indictments of Israel, including a new one - the inability of Christian Palestinians to access their holy places in Jerusalem.
Editor, Joseph Garcia came to the office of the presidency to expand the scope of GPSA and increase the stature of this body. In the past, which is obvious from some posts to our Listserv, most graduate and professional students believed the only purpose of GPSA was to disperse money either to individuals in the form of travel and research grants or money to run graduate student organizations.
Editor, I believe that creationism, evolution and the factual evidence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster should be taught in schools nationwide. My belief is that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often an overlooked faith in American culture. We have fought hard to secure our place in this great land.
Editor, I am a graduate student studying the history of West Asia and South Asia. I am also a volunteer with the Middle East Peace & Justice Alliance. I recently attended an event the alliance co-sponsored called Jerusalem Women Speak. Three women who live in Israel spoke about their personal experiences living, working and playing in this much-contested region.
Editor, I would like to thank the Daily Lobo for running the article on staph infection on Monday. I am a survivor of a bacterial staph infection. I became seriously ill after the Christmas of 2004 and only became sicker throughout January 2005. On Jan.
Editor, I'm a member of the Middle East Peace and Justice Alliance that co-sponsored the Jerusalem Women Speak tour. It featured Muslim, Christian and Jewish women from Israel and Palestine talking about peace and experiences living in the Holy Land. I attended five of the events - a luncheon at a local church, an evening event, two classroom talks at UNM and an editorial meeting at the Albuquerque Journal.
Editor, I am a Jewish member of the Middle East Peace and Justice Alliance. I recently returned from the West Bank after an eight-month stay where I lived and worked at a refugee camp and taught as a visiting professor at Al-Quds University. Representation in Dotan Kennedy's letter that appeared in the Daily Lobo on Friday appears to be an issue here.
Editor, I recently attended a presentation as part of the Jerusalem Women Speak tour in Albuquerque. Three women, each representing one of the three Abrahamic religions, demonstrated they can and do believe in peace with a single vision for co-existence among the peoples of Israel and Palestine.
Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to respond to an article that recently appeared in the Daily Lobo regarding UNM's report card on sustainability. Let me start by saying that UNM is well on its way to becoming a sustainable university. Last year, the provost formed a task force on sustainability to take a comprehensive look at this issue.
Editor, This is in response to Andres Saenz's letter published in Thursday's Daily Lobo. The letter's main argument was that the Bible is true as it includes narration of historical events. He claims that the Egyptian pyramids were built by Jewish slaves.
Editor, Andres Saenz thinks the Great Pyramids in Egypt were built by enslaved Israelites. I don't think so. The Great Pyramids of Giza and many others were built by the third and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom from 2686 B.C. to 2175 B.C. Indeed, the three Great Pyramids were built specifically between 2589 and 2496, some 700 to 600 years before the Israelites were even recognizable as a people, and they were erected by trained professionals and conscripted labor paying a type of tax.
Good morning. How did you sleep last night? Did you wake up without an alarm this morning, feeling well-rested for your first class? Do you ever? Many college students consider sleep to be a luxury they can't afford or a necessary nuisance that takes up valuable time. At the same time, many of you report sleeping difficulties. One way or another, sleep is an issue for most.
Editor, I am an Israeli student here at UNM. I was very excited when I heard about the talk on the Middle East. Sadly, it turned out to be no more than propaganda filled with the lambasting of Israel by two highly educated women. To me, Hagit Ra'anan was only there for show.
Editor, The Republican Party and church leaders abandoned the faithful for greed and power. I am a born-again Christian who followed my religious leaders into the Republican Party, because they said results were not only possible but probable. Abortion is a criminal act that kills hundreds of thousands of children every year, and our church and Republican leaders demanded devout Christians vote for the party that would end this practice.
Editor, I've finally had enough of the debate over the UNM North Golf Course. More directly, I'm fed up with arguments against the development: We need public green spaces. UNM needs to give to the community. The golf course is better for the environment.
Editor, A new law from Congress has inadvertently caused birth control prices to soar on college campuses nationwide. At UNM, the Student Health Center had to switch from using a discounted name-brand birth control pill to a more expensive generic pill. The price for students has doubled and now costs $35 each month.
Editor, As a former student of UNM and an employee at the North Golf Course, I have a special kinship to the school and the golf course. For two 1/2 years, I spent a few hours of my day at the course washing carts. It wasn't a hard job, but it was a way for me to acquire a little extra cash and still be able to do well in school.
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