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.
Editor, Nuclear weapons are poor tools for making peace. Nukes are indiscriminate weapons of mass murder. They kill women, children, the sick, the ill and anyone nearby. They contaminate the gene pool of future generations with mutations and cancers. That is why weapons of mass destruction are called terror weapons, and people around the world have worked hard to get rid of them.
Editor, I wanted to respond to a letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo by Benjamin Sanchez regarding the Democratic Party's stance on family issues. After several readings, Sanchez's letter appears to boil family values down to three main issues: abortion, homosexuality and religion.
Editor, I was disturbed to read Damian Erasmus' attack on multiculturalism in a letter to the Daily Lobo on Sept. 15. The view that one culture must be superior to others mirrors imperialist and colonial thinking; a viewpoint which throughout history has justified oppression and outright genocide toward cultures viewed as inferior or not fully human.
Editor, On Sept. 11, 2002, it was raining in Albuquerque. The day fit the somber mood of the people gathered Downtown to pay tribute to those killed on that tragic day one year earlier. On Sept. 11, 2003, it was a beautiful fall day in New York, the time of year in which the city is alive as the suffocating heat of summer has ended.
Editor, UNM is unquestionably the most dangerous place in Western civilization to pursue an education. I don't believe too much of what the FBI says, but every year it puts UNM at the top of the list for most campus crime at a big university, and every year UNM responds by saying that the FBI doesn't know how to crunch the numbers.
Editor, As a veteran, I'm extremely troubled by recent efforts exerted by our nation's president. After the Supreme Court declared that his established court system to process terror suspects was in violation of the Geneva Conventions, Bush is pushing for greater executive power to ensure that the CIA and the military can continue to use questionable interrogation tactics, among other things.
Editor, Not to be judgmental, but David Martinez's attitude toward creationism, as shown in his letter to the Daily Lobo on Monday, is analogous to that of the Pharisees toward Christ during the times of the Roman Empire. Even though Christ did many awesome miracles, they stubbornly chose to ignore him.
Editor, Getting involved in various organizations is a great way to make a difference. Becoming involved in the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group student chapter is an amazing option. Members of NMPIRG are constantly active in campaigns such as the New Voters Project, Affordable Textbooks, Hunger and Homelessness and the Campus Climate Challenge.
Editor, Growing up, my parents always voted for the Democratic candidate. I remember my father telling me the Democratic Party was for the working people, which my parents were. Both of my parents worked in order to support their large family. Being Roman Catholic, they were generously open to life and had eight children, for which I am forever grateful, given I am the sixth child.
Editor, The war on terror is one of the greatest public relations campaigns in history. All one can really do is sit back and enjoy the revolting show. I have a very low suspension of disbelief. Have you ever really seen a real terrorist? I will never understand why Rep.
Editor, George W. Bush asked all the nations in the world to stand up for peace at a meeting of the United Nations on Tuesday. The path to peace is not being traveled when people are labeled jihadist extremists, evil or any other term that reinforces the idea that the world is divided into two types of people - the good and the evil.
Editor, I enjoyed both the cartoon and letter on Monday referring to the Bookstore employees implicated in theft as modern-day Robin Hoods. But seriously, who are those people kidding? I know the story of Robin Hood to be about a hero famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor, not an individual who took from the rich and sold to the poor.
Editor, My nonprofit organization, International Peace Initiatives, works with Women Can International, the nonprofit organization that Chao Sio co-founded. This letter is in support of the release of Sio, who has been arrested for being in the U.S. illegally.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo columnist There's a saying that the U.S. legal system is the worst in the world, except for all the rest. I can't say if I agree with this or not, because I haven't been arrested in every country in the world yet. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist - or even a UNM undergraduate - to see that our courts do stupid things from time to time.
Editor, I can readily accept Carolyn Johnson's assertion that evolution is a belief, but the balance of her letter leaves a lot to be desired. The two fossil hoaxes she mentioned have been known to be hoaxes for a long time, and one of them - Nebraska Man - was exposed some 70 years ago.
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