Editor, As a smoker, the debate over eliminating smoking on campus seems almost entirely one-sided, so I thought I would throw in my opinion. I would like to comment on the smokers that showed up at the forum last Thursday. It was certainly out of line for them to do what they did, and I'm sure that most people will agree with that.
Editor, I was appalled at the coverage of the demonstration for justice that took place Thursday. Before the protest, I saw no announcement in your newspaper that it was to occur, though I do know you were notified. The photograph you showed was not at all representative of the diverse crowd of people that participated.
Editor, In response to the question of the week about smoking in Friday's issue of the Daily Lobo, I wonder if anyone asked Alex Hansell what she thought of African-Americans, gay people, Jews, skateboarders, cyclists and people who don't speak English. I just want to know if her bigotry is limited to people who smoke, or if it's a general hatred of traits that are different from her own.
Daily Lobo, I got a question about coffee intake.
First, I'd like to say that I think the Daily Lobo is usually a great way for the UNM community to get its news. However, Monday's issue made it clear that it presents a one-sided view of certain issues. For example, Greek life on campus.
Editor, This is in response to the letter by Rachel Shreve about abortion in the Oct. 2 Daily Lobo. Speaking as a female scientist, I would like to agree that generally there is no debate that biological life begins at conception. Yet, life in the biological sense just means that a cell is able to metabolize nutrients, produce energy to grow and reproduce.
Editor, Thursday's Daily Lobo article on the smoke-free forum neglected to address two important subjects. It first failed to provide any of the information on the consequences of secondhand smoke that was presented by the panel of experts in the field, and it also neglected to mention the disrespectful behavior of the students who attempted to represent at least some of the smokers on campus.
Editor, I am a citizen of New Mexico, so UNM is my University. I am appalled that the war planners are using my University in my state to promote genocide. I come from a long line of military people. My father was a B-17 pilot and firebombed Germany, and he came home and killed himself because he had participated in that horror.
Editor, In Thursday's Daily Lobo, student Estaban Sena wrote, "Without the continuing need for improved military technology, New Mexico would not have much else to offer the nation." The truth is that while the national laboratories support the economic welfare of some people, what they create is not beneficial to our nation in general.
Editor, In Dean Vera Norwood's letter to the Daily Lobo on Friday, she stated that there was adequate opportunity for the public to comment on UNM's involvement with nuclear weapons and other issues brought up at the meeting where Robert Anderson was arrested.
Editor, Maybe we just don't understand how President George Bush is trying to defeat the terrorists. Bush frequently tells us that the terrorists hate us because of what we stand for and that we must defeat them. Is it possible that instead of defeating
Editor, Conservative Republicans, alongside our prestigious Rep. Heather Wilson, pride themselves on their superior moral qualities. In fact, it is foundational to their entire approach to government. This explains the zeal with which they pursued Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, leading to the former's impeachment.
Editor, A number of misconceptions have evolved following the Sept. 30 symposium at UNM at which a local activist was arrested. As interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and someone who was actually present at the forum, I would like to correct these misconceptions.
Editor, I want to thank all the participants of the Smoke-Free Campus Forum, especially the panel of experts who presented statistics and ideas, like that more than 3,000 deaths each year are due to secondhand smoke; that cities like Calabasas, Calif., are smoke-free; that Presbyterian campus and all its clinics are smoke-free; that tobacco companies are targeting youth by sweetening cigarettes in a concentrated effort to replace dying smokers; that any amount of secondhand smoke is harmful; that tobacco negatively affects youth; that nicotine is an addiction; and finally, that UNM will eventually be smoke-free.
Editor, I think it would be nice if the Daily Lobo published the number of participants during this year's homecoming elections, just to compare it to the number of students that voted during the last elections for mayor and president. I am sure many of us would be impressed with the results.
Editor, It is hard to remain calm in word or thought about the Robert Anderson arrest during the UNM-sponsored forum on mass murder and genocide. The true crime is the overwhelming drive to smother any and all objection to illegal and immoral nuclear proliferation, disguised under the basically ironic, yet diabolical, goal of killing for peace.
Editor, In response to Sam Roth and Terry Mulcahy's letters in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, don't the two of them realize that New Mexico almost certainly would not exist without nuclear weapons? Coming from a small northern town in which most of the citizens are employed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, it's not very hard to see that without such employment opportunities, the surrounding communities would be laden with poverty.
Editor, Well-deserved congratulations to the Lobo football-marketing geniuses. Just as my grandfather listened to his favorite football team - the Green Bay Packers - on the radio from the 1940s to the 1960s, and just as my father-in-law listened to his favorite football team - the Dallas Cowboys - on the radio from the 1950s to the 1970s, now I find myself listening to my favorite college football team - the Lobos - on the radio, too.
Editor, There is no possible case for further research and development into nuclear weapons. Despite the blatant hypocrisy in the argument for more weapons, are we, as an institution of higher learning, going to let this stand? The abuse of knowledge to create weapons of mass destruction that incinerate victims alive, not to mention the environmental degradation of nuclear waste and strip mining, is preposterous.
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