Editor, President Bush used 46 percent of his State of the Union address to explain the epic struggle our nation faces: We are forced to fight Islamic terrorists and their fascist ideology. He tells us they want to destroy Western civilization, and if they are not challenged, he believes they have the potential to succeed.
Editor, In response to the editorial in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, I would like to emphasize a few key issues. It is important to remember that many nonprofit organizations, of which the University is one, run like businesses but with specific civic or philanthropic goals.
Scott Darnell will be writing a series of columns pertaining to the political power players in the world, the United States and New Mexico today. His column will focus on the decisions they make. It's a triple dose in this column, as he tackles the good, the bad and the gutsy moves of Sen. Barack Obama, New Mexico Speaker Ben Lujan and Sen. John McCain.
Editor, I spend a lot of my time in the Lobo Lair of the SUB. The only people that spend more time there than my friends and I are the students working with NMPIRG. Every day, they have meetings with people from all over campus. They carry their table and banner out to go to talk to UNM students about important issues that they are working on, and they don't leave their office until 9 or 10 p.
As the University searches for a president and a replacement for regent Sandra Begay-Campbell, we should be thinking about what is best for the future of UNM and who will take us there. Running the University as if it were a business seems to be the regents' top priority.
Editor, It is becoming increasingly likely that some form of breakup will occur to the nation-state of Iraq. The breakup will reflect the relationships among Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish groups, and the relationships of these groups to the central government - which in turn have consequences on the region.
Editor, I'm writing in response to the Daily Lobo article on Monday, "Students aim to start campus PIRG chapter." It seems to me that an organization that registers students to vote, helps inform them and then gets them out to the polls on Election Day is helping UNM students become responsible citizens.
Editor, I am writing in regard to the article about UNM's image on the front page of Friday's Daily Lobo. After several straight years of unruly tuition increases and the loss of printed course catalogs, I learned that the University is spending its money on a brand consulting firm.
No Child Left Behind has a lot in common with the Patriot Act - all name, no substance. If you vote against the Patriot Act, you're not a patriot. If you vote against No Child Left Behind, you want to abandon cute, doe-eyed little children. Right? Wrong.
Editor, I am a UNM employee who takes two shuttles a day - the South and the Q - to get to work. I hear so much complaining about the service, but I have been taking these shuttles for months and have never had any problem making it to work on time. I get tired of hearing some students on the shuttles whining about how hard they have it.
On Jan. 10, President Bush announced his new strategy for the war in Iraq. His plan calls for more troops in the area. Unfortunately, the use of more troops will have little effect on the war. Only more bodies will be added to the death toll. Instead of adding more troops, Bush should find more competent leaders for the forces already in Iraq.
Editor, The FBI has been able to listen in on our phone conversations without a warrant through wiretapping for the past five years. How much longer is this supposed to go on? The Constitution says the police can't search you without a warrant. I think this goes for wiretapping, too.
Editor, Within a year, I will be a U.S. citizen. Even though citizenship bestows many wonderful benefits on its recipients, I feel somewhat hesitant about becoming a citizen. First, I feel embarrassed by this country's proclivity toward an ever-increasing waistline.
Editor, Who does UNM think it's fooling? I am sick and tired of all the unsatisfactory, illogical excuses that the administration keeps spewing to my fellow students and myself. What am I enraged about? Here is just one example: paper handouts. On Tuesday, one of my instructors said, "To reduce costs, UNM is limiting the number of things handed out to class.
At the end of 2006, U.S.-backed Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia to drive from power an Islamist movement called the Somalia Islamic Courts Council, which had seized large blocks of the fragmented country, establishing stability for the first time in decades and posing a direct challenge to the official government, the Transitional Federal Government.
Editor, I just watched Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and it was very concerning. It really made me realize that we need to do something about global warming right now. Last semester, NMPIRG was working on getting renewable energy on campus, and I think this is a great step.
Editor, After reading Tuesday's article about banning smoking on campus, I wondered why the UNM community is not settling for strictly enforced restrictions. Why can't we respect the rights of smokers by providing designated smoking areas or appropriate distances from campus entrances without sacrificing the health of nonsmokers like myself? Why are there ashtrays at the entrances anyway? It seems that all the rhetoric coming from both camps does a great job at ignoring the middle.
The Albuquerque blizzard of 2006 was not a blizzard. It was a few inches of snow. That being said, it caused a lot of trouble, including highway closings, a shortage of potatoes at Flying Star and multiple power outages. The state spent pretty much its entire road budget for the year in about three days.
Dear Dr. Peg, Some friends introduced me to hookah smoking a few months ago, and we've been getting together to smoke a couple times a week. It's fun to hang out, and the smoke smells nice. I know cigarette smoking is dangerous, so I've never done it, but hookah smoking is safe, right? Doesn't the water filter out all the bad stuff from the smoke? And isn't hookah tobacco healthier than the tobacco in cigarettes? Dear Hooked on Hookah, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you are wrong on all counts.
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