Editor, Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms "pro-life" and "right to life" to the anti-abortion advocates. It is a woman's right to her own life that gives her the right to terminate a pregnancy. First, it is absurd to compare a mass of cells to the equivalent of an infant.
Editor, The Coalition for a UNM Smoke-Free Campus will host a forum to address amending the UNM policy and creating a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus. The forum will take place Oct. 4 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the plaza east of the SUB. The panel members will be Dona Upson, a doctor in the UNM internal medicine program; Don Soderstrom from the American Lung Association; Jane Bowes from UNM patient education; and Cynthia Serna from New Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco.
Editor, UNM will host a nuclear think-tank meeting at the SUB to promote weapons on Friday. This is incongruous with the fundamental role of a university in promoting peace and free thought. People all over the world are sick and tired of science and technology being used for profiteering and conquest.
Editor, I concur with Robert Anderson's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo, especially the significant alarm that nuclear weapon development and its imminent use is readily accepted in this post-9/11 world. I am intellectually, morally and spiritually saddened that UNM would host a playground for nuclear weapons - the same weapons the Bush regime is telling many countries they cannot have.
Editor, As a two-time UNM graduate, I send condolences to my alma mater for gross misjudgment, amorality and nuclear madness. All of my immediate family went to UNM, but we will not be going down that path again and recommend that other parents choose schools with a more solid ethical base.
Editor, It is a shock to read about the conference this Friday hosted by UNM and Sandia National Laboratories to discuss their collaboration on the reliable replacement warhead. The announcement of this event sounds almost celebratory. Of course, we a
Editor, In 2000, while I was a junior at UNM, the infamous Sigma Chi incident occurred in which a member of the fraternity duct-taped a swastika onto a car parked illegally on the frat's property. That member was appropriately disciplined. Two years later, the fraternity managed to egregiously violate its own charter and its terms with UNM.
by Whitney J. Davis Daily Lobo columnist If you have ever read a food label, then you might have heard of high-fructose corn syrup. It is found in nearly every processed food in the United States, including sodas like Coca-Cola. If you have ever bought a Coke outside the U.
by Mario Hernandez Daily Lobo columnist I have always thought the human race's greatest gift was free will and the ability to let free expression bloom. However, it seems in recent times that this gift and our ideas are being stifled. We are being told what to think, what we can read, what we can write and what we should and should not say.
by Matthew Chavez Daily Lobo columnist Denis Halliday is the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations and was appointed U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq in 1997 by Secretary General Kofi Annan. Halliday, regarded as a leading Western expert on Iraq, resigned one year after his appointment, ending a more than 30-year career.
Editor, It should serve as some indication of the dire straits that we are in when the current spending habits of the U.S. military exceed those at the height of the Cold War. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States military has an allocated 2006 budget of nearly $420 billion, not counting nondiscretionary spending and the twin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Editor, I don't know why people aren't more upset. The $351 million school bond issue passed a week ago. A lot of people think that West Side interests would be served by splitting from Albuquerque Public Schools. But APS says that if the West Side splits, the city can keep the bond money.
Editor, As a committed reader of the Daily Lobo, I just wanted to express my disappointment in the paper for publishing something of as little quality as the Herb and Pete comic. The Herb and Pete comic that you regularly print lacks any ingenuity or creativity at all.
Editor, I enjoyed Benjamin Sanchez's letter to the editor in Thursday's Daily Lobo. He might enjoy taking a broader look into philosophy. One great philosopher, often called the father of conservative thought, is Edmund Burke. He believed that strong traditions have withstood the test of time and should not be changed based on whims, fashion or folly.
Editor, I would like to commend Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, and Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, on their public defense of President Bush in the face of the hostility of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Among other things, Chávez asserted that Bush was "the devil" at a speech addressing the United Nations.
Editor, As college students, it may be difficult to believe the media is still campaigning intensely toward our age group in hopes that our minds will be easily molded by their tactics. It is not only high school and middle school youth that are greatly targeted by tobacco corporations in magazines, gas stations and product placement ads within movies and TV shows.
Editor, This is in response to Brian Fejer's letter citing statistics on dead Iraqis and on the use of weapons such as white phosphorous. The current statistics, according to the Web site Antiwar.com, cite 48,000 Iraqis dead. Though not a small amount, this is much lower than the 150,000 quoted by Fejer.
Editor, On Aug. 6, 1945, American airmen detonated a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, and three days later dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. The bombs are estimated to have killed almost 300,000 people, most of them civilians. Had we invaded Japan, a country with an army far larger than Iraq, the cost of life would have been far greater for the U.
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