by Peggy Spencer Daily Lobo columnist It's the end of the semester - time to cram for exams, crank out papers, tank up on caffeine, stay up all night and eat junk food, right? I've been there and done that when I was a student. I know that expecting students to put their health first at this time of year is like expecting the sun to rise in the south - ain't gonna happen.
Editor, With 30 dead and counting, New Mexico is paying the price of war with our lives. Fewer New Mexican high school students are enrolling at UNM, but with enticing war propaganda and in-house military recruiters on high school campuses, military enlistment goals have been met.
Editor, In a letter in Monday's Daily Lobo, Larry H. Crum and Paul Chacho state that liberals believe that "with increased government and enough money, they can fix everything ... as the government grows and legislates more of our life, we the people have less and less to say about our personal freedom.
Editor, Caleb Fort's article in Thursday's Daily Lobo about our student affiliate, Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Justice, and their work to assist low-income students with the cost of contraception is a little bit unclear. The article states that the discounted Ortho Tri-Cyclen costs $15 a month and the generic replacement costs $24.
Editor, Monday's letter by Larry H. Crum and Paul Chacho is further evidence of the persecution complex shared by many American conservatives. For people whose views have been enacted in official policy for six years with catastrophic results, it is distressing that they should complain so fervently about being underrepresented.
Editor, How dare the Human Resources Department and the UNM administration allow a consultant to leave UNM and New Mexico with potentially compromising personal information such as my name, e-mail address, home address, UNM identification number and net pay.
Editor, If a 48-hour deadline was good enough to get Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard out of Iraq, why isn't it enough time to get President Bush's Republican Guard out of Iraq? The only terrorist who followed us home from the last territorial pissing in Iraq was U.
Editor, On Thursday, a student organization identified as the Salam Coalition prepared a very edifying and informative event at Smith Plaza in which it constructed a miniature replica of the wall being erected between the West Bank and Israel. The foremost purpose of this project was to increase awareness and to educate UNM by bringing the outcomes of global incidents closer to our community in a diplomatic way.
Editor, The growth of the human population has had a large effect on the environment and its health. As pointed out by Phil Carter's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, we are facing a biological crisis that threatens not only our beloved wolves but all those in the ecosystem, including humans, flora, fauna, animals and everything else that adds beauty to our world.
Editor, It seems to me that global warming is a government conspiracy for several plausible reasons. First of all, Earth, much like a living organism, has natural cycles that it must go through. According to a recent "Naked Science" documentary that aired on the National Geographic channel, the gravitational forces between Earth and the moon are slowly growing weaker.
Editor, Though my colleagues and I continue to submit opinions to the Daily Lobo, it appears that the opinion editor refuses to publish almost anything that even hints at a conservative opinion. The majority of the letters published in the last several weeks have shown a preponderance of far-left liberal leanings, some of which are totally ludicrous.
The Food and Drug Administration, responsible for inspecting produce in the U.S., recently admitted that it inspected only about 1 percent of the 8.9 million imported food shipments in 2006.
Editor, I am writing this letter on behalf of the financially distressed and disenfranchised students at UNM who are deeply concerned about the recent tuition increase. I have attended UNM since 2005, and every year, the tuition increases with no consideration for the people who are impacted the most - financially distressed and disenfranchised students who do not have a broad range of financial resources at their immediate disposal.
Editor, I will be placing five notebooks entitled "Book of Worries" all around the UNM campus today. The books are an invitation to anyone who comes across them to share their daily stresses and worries anonymously on the blank pages provided. Afterward, share your own worries by replacing the book where you found it.
Editor, As a tenured faculty member who also serves as chairman of the Faculty Senate Athletics Council, I understand and appreciate the perspectives of people who argue for an increased investment in quality, high-profile athletics programs, as well as those of individuals like professor Geoffrey Miller who question the funding inequities between academics and athletics.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist The U.S. trade deficit - the amount by which America's imports exceed its exports - has quadrupled since the Bush administration took office in 2001. In 2006, the trade deficit reached a record $818 billion. There is little consensus among economists about the implications of such a large imbalance.
Editor, In response to Geoffrey Miller's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, let me reiterate that Steve Alford's salary at UNM is about $210,000. His entire compensation package comes from sources outside of the University. Even Paul Krebs, UNM's athletics director, has said that the amounts paid to college coaches are difficult to swallow.
Editor, Did you see the wall the Israelis built outside the Humanities building Thursday? This is an outrage. How did they manage to sneak onto campus and erect this monument to hate undetected? OK, no foreign militants are sneaking around campus. The "wall" was actually placed by some campus group - I don't know which one, because the display does not identify it.
Editor, Some people are falsely blaming the U.S. for the violence in Iraq. In truth, the U.S. is the major force for peace in that suffering country. The violence there remains much less than it was under Baathist dictatorship. It is the different nature of the violence which may be confusing.
Editor, We are writing in response to the Peaches and Cream Fashion Show held in the SUB on Monday. We would like to ask for clarification about the rationale behind this event. Our understanding is that the concept behind the show was that of fundraising.
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