Editor, I share James Post's disdain expressed in Thursday's issue of the Daily Lobo for the negative ads that we see during elections, but I have to point out that Madrid is doing the same thing as Wilson. In one of her ads she states, "We have been in Iraq for 3 1/2 years and still no strategy.
Editor, In his column in Friday's Daily Lobo, Mario Hernandez argued that all good Christians should support raising taxes to spend far more money on foreign aid, child health care and preschool. As a committed Christian who happens to support these three items as budget priorities, I am still disturbed by Hernandez's stance and tone.
Editor, While I found Whitney J. Davis' article on Wal-Mart in Wednesday's Daily Lobo one of the most informative articles that your paper has produced, the root problem of Wal-Mart is the government, not Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is only playing the same game as the rest of corporate America.
We are all hypocrites, every last one of us. Every person in every country of the world has been guilty of not following his or her word. This is human nature - nothing more and nothing less. However, hypocrisy can take a violent spin toward becoming overwhelmingly negative.
Editor, In response to Dave Bergeron's letter to the editor in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo, I would refer him - and President Bush for that matter - to the words of the great wartime leader, Harry Truman. In his farewell address to the American people, Truman stated that "the president - whoever he is - has to decide.
Editor, When I was a boy in the early '50s, my family lived in student housing at New Mexico A & M - now NMSU - in Las Cruces. My best buddy and next door neighbor was Charles Madrid, whose little sister, Patricia, is running for our nation's Congress. Over the years, I have watched the Madrid family build itself a good and successful working-class American life through their own hard work, intelligence, education, courage, honesty and family solidarity.
Editor, This is a brief response to Jason Darensburg's letter published in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo. He was not very fair in generalizing that "college is mostly for rich kids with no value system." I am originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, and this assumption does not apply to me.
Editor, Thanks for the article in the Aug. 29 Daily Lobo exposing proposed federal budget cuts that would eviscerate student work-study and Pell Grant programs. However, Kathleen O'Keefe, interim director of student financial aid, did not adequately address the way the proposed cuts will affect UNM students.
Wal-Mart has spent the last few years in the public bull's-eye. Some claim Wal-Mart is being attacked simply because it is the biggest retailer with the highest profits. Although being the biggest comes with much more public scrutiny - and thus more responsibility to be socially aware - being the best is not necessarily a corporate death sentence in our capitalism-loving society. However, the case against Wal-Mart does in fact have strong points.
Editor, I found the article on nonviolent protests in Thursday's Daily Lobo interesting. I was a student at the time, and the protests were violent. What was even more interesting was the number of nonstudents involved. People arrested at the SUB included street people and high school students.
Editor, Raquel Cordova's letter in Friday's Daily Lobo inspired me because of my similar experience last fall. Though there is no policy requiring it, my department offered to let me use its comprehensive-exam room as a location to pump while I was away from my 6-month-old daughter.
Editor, In John Steiner's letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo, he uses four examples of failures that he attributes to the Bush administration: knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plans, failure to evacuate people from New Orleans, failure to handle post-Katrina New Orleans properly, and a loss of pensions due to criminal wrongdoing by a number of corporate officers.
Editor, As an avid Daily Lobo reader, it did my radical heart good to see Thursday's installment of the three-part series, "From the Archives." In the early '70s, there were massive anti-war protests throughout the country, even at UNM. Students literally fought hand-to-hand with riot police over the prosecution of the Vietnam War.
Editor, I was a bit surprised to see that a former president of the University believes that UNM was spared the violence that plagued some universities in the late 1960s. I wonder how he could draw that conclusion. The events at the SUB at UNM in 1970 were among the most violent in the nation, probably ranking third in casualties after Kent State and Jackson State Universities.
Ethics reform should be an important issue in the upcoming election if it meets certain criteria. The idea of ethics reform would have to be in a state of controversy, a vital or unsettled matter, under discussion or in dispute. So, it would seem that ethics reform is an issue.
Editor, I became a new mom last March. Having a daughter has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. There are hundreds of mothers here on campus with infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for at least the first year.
Editor, I was at the memorial service last Saturday when the late Ferrel Heady, former UNM president, was eulogized. It was fitting and proper that the Daily Lobo covered the event in Monday's issue. I am privileged to know Heady and his noble qualities, and thus would like to echo all the other voices of admiration and add a few words of my own.
I was greatly dismayed to see the front-page photo of two UNM students sharing a hookah full of strawberry-flavored tobacco in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. Using this photo as filler in the same fashion the Lobo runs pictures of students playing Frisbee, skateboarding or sharing a meal in the SUB serves to reinforce the commonly held misperception that hookah smoking is an innocuous activity.
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