Editor, The Dean of Students Office is advising the campus community and campus visitors that Justice For All, an anti-abortion organization, will have an outdoor exhibit that includes graphic photographs on Smith Plaza, south of Zimmerman Library, Monday through Wednesday.
Editor, Deanna Delgado courageously put an unpopular view in clear sight of predictable criticism. A no-vote is obviously a vote against the state of American politics. The political climate is fraught, corruption is endemic and the will of industry has been accommodated to an obscene degree.
Editor, In response to Deadra Wright's letter in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, what Constitution is she reading? Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it grant or imply a person's right to smoke. Wright may have the right to buy cigarettes, but the right to smoke them publicly is a gray area.
Editor, I am writing in response to Robert Ortiz's letter in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. I agree with Ortiz that it is not simply Christianity that holds negative views toward homosexuality, but I disagree with just about everything else he said. The reason that David Gonzalez primarily targeted Christians in his letter on Monday is because the greatest opposition toward the gay community comes from the Christian community.
Editor, I am writing in response to the article about the Greeks published in Wednesday's Daily Lobo. I think it would be nice to show the good things that fraternities and sororities do among the UNM and Albuquerque communities, but in the real world, that is not newsworthy.
Editor, In Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo, Lucia Fronterotta took issue with UNM's decision to close Zia Lot and Parking and Transportation Services' justification for doing so. In objecting to the decision, Fronterotta alluded to several common misconceptions about UNM's shuttle system.
Editor, I treasure mutually passionate romance with a man, but I will not for any man on earth surrender or compromise my war tax refusal, my living simply, my having no car, my all-raw vegan food, my urine therapy, my walking and vigorous daily exercise, my freedom to be naked and my strong public stands of conscience.
The problem with the political campaign system is that nothing of substance is ever discussed. Sure, candidates mention Iraq, support family values and promote their own integrity, but what about the issues that affect citizen's day-to-day lives?
Editor, Deanna Delgado's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo missed the point. Nonvoters do not accomplish more than voters. The reason people get so annoyed with nonvoters is that not voting accomplishes nothing. Sure, the Democrats and the Republicans suck. Alternatives? The Democrats effectively painted the Green Party as a spoiler to maintain their market share of the voters, and the Republicans offered money to the Green Party, effectively backing up the Democratic claim that the Green Party was tied to Republicans.
Editor, I am writing in response to Deanna Delgado's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo about the volunteer who asked her boyfriend if he wanted to register to vote. While I agree that the volunteer's comment was unprofessional, I don't think it was completely unfounded.
Editor, This smoking-ban issue is really getting on my nerves - more so than the secondhand smoke that supposedly pollutes the entire campus. I am not a smoker, but I am completely against the ban on smoking. Since when is it OK to take a constitutional right away from a public university? If people are paying to come to school here and get a proper education, why can't they enjoy a perfectly legal activity, such as smoking a cigarette while walking to class? We already have rules on campus that state a smoker cannot stand near any doors or windows, and that they cannot smoke in any buildings, so why continue trying to force people to quit doing something they enjoy? If people want to smoke, let them.
Editor, I am writing in response to Monday's article about the closing of Zia Lot. Closing Zia Lot will not help improve gas prices - all it will do is add to the mass chaos of hundreds of students waiting for the shuttle at South Lot. Every day I park in South Lot and walk to Zia Lot with many of my fellow students in hopes to get to class on time.
Editor, In response to David Gonzalez's letter on Monday, he is right - there is a real problem when a specific group of people is picked out for discrimination. However, there are far more people than just those who claim to be Christians that discriminate against the gay community.
Editor, This is in response to Deanna Delgado's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo stating that nonvoters are not lazy or uninformed. I agree with that assessment. She used an example that since no candidate represents what she stands for, "It's like offering me the choice between a turkey sandwich or a ham croissant when I'm a vegetarian.
Editor, I am writing in response to Monday's article about the closing of Zia Lot. Closing Zia Lot will not help improve gas prices - all it will do is add to the mass chaos of hundreds of students waiting for the shuttle at South Lot. Every day I park in South Lot and walk to Zia Lot with many of my fellow students in hopes to get to class on time.
Editor, Monday's article by Abigail Ramirez was a one-sided regurgitation of Judy Anderson's opinion of the proposed tax hike. The so-called Quality of Life tax represents a hostile business climate, a regressive tax burden on a poor county and a disturbing trend in government paternalism and cronyism.
The decline and fall of the Bush doctrine continued last week, with North Korea defiantly testing a nuclear device, confounding an administration locked in a self-constructed policy labyrinth of dead ends. Pyongyang's nuclear provocation is the final nail in the coffin of Bush's clumsy campaign against the so-called "axis of evil."
Editor, I am a left-winger - way left. In fact, I'm so far left that I don't really feel that voting is really up my alley, since no candidates seem to represent what I stand for. It's like offering me the choice between a turkey sandwich or a ham croissant when I'm a vegetarian.
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