Editor, Pope Benedict VXI recently informed the world that unfertilized embryos have rights. If one can possibly get past the absurdity of this comment, it has far reaching consequences. If embryos are people, then they have the same rights as all humans. If this is so, then they have the right ...
Editor, I received Republican membership-drive material that was worded in a manner that leaves the impression that members of the Republican Party are of very low intelligence, which I found quite offensive. They continue to manipulate the facts to suit their purposes. While I agree that the 2004 ...
We are witnessing the emergence of a strange paradox - an increasing number of people go hungry and grow obese at the same time. In a country that produces more food than any country in the world, food insecurity and hunger are on the rise. One out of every six New Mexicans does not have enough food at all times to meet basic needs. Of these, 46.5 percent are working poor. Nationally, New Mexico is second only to Texas in food insecurity.
Editor, I noticed the editorial cartoon, which is hardly possible to miss, in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. It would appear Eric Garcia is woefully ignorant of the history of the African-American regiments in the 19th century U.S. Army, and the way in which these regiments maintained their numbers. The ...
I would like to take a moment and congratulate the Board of Regents at UNM for taking the initiative and investing in clean renewable energy.
Even though we will never know precisely why former UNM President Louis Caldera "resigned" - since the reason apparently has something to with national security and is classified - his expensive departure illustrates the basic problem with the University: the regents.
Editor, I am writing about the ever-controversial smoking issue. Second-hand smoke is exceptionally hazardous, and, according to the American Lung Association, second-hand smoke causes approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States ...
I'm a 42-year-old bipolar man, and I also have attention deficit disorder. I attend UNM because of the generosity of the Cohen-Marchiondo Scholarship fund, which offers students with mental disorders full scholarships.
It seems there is some consensus on the Dubai Ports World port management contracts. In Congress, there is a bipartisan uproar putting President Bush on the defensive. In an ironic twist of fate, liberal Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist stand united against the United Arab Emirates-based corporation.
Colin Donoghue's column in Tuesday's Daily Lobo on racism and the issue of the death penalty suggested to me an argument against capital punishment in general - the terms death penalty and capital punishment are actually misnomers.
Editor, The only effective place to begin solving a problem is at the beginning, and such a beginning can only be found by observing what is really going on, devoid of all assumptions and opinions about what is really going on. One way this idea could be expressed is becoming the witness. When one ...
As a passionate young teacher working with at-risk teens, I taught myself to practice non-judgment and to avoid stereotyping people based on the color of their skin. Naively, I thought I would change the world this way, one student at a time. What I wasn't prepared for was the attitudes and emotions that had been handed down generation after generation that my students now carried with them like a mantra.
Editor, The only objection I have to outsourcing 21 ports in the United States to the state-owned corporation Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates isn't that they're Arab, but that American-owned companies should be running the ports. I guess the United States has fallen into such decline ...
Editor, Mikhayla Harrell's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo hit it on the nose. I went back to the Feb. 23 edition of the Lobo and read the article in question, "Maximum mischief." I assume the reader with the right sense of humor could enjoy wallowing around inside Tucker Max's own fascinated version ...
Editor, Nations guilty of the most horrific crimes have also produced the greatest prophets. This is no coincidence. Prophets speak to the conscience of a people. Their words are deliberately blunt and uncompromising, condemning injustice, addressing the perpetrators directly and calling them by ...
Editor, We've just passed Black History Month. Each year, Americans proudly reflect on the history of African-Americans, their accomplishments and the challenges they faced against the likes of bigotry and intolerance. We should proudly remember the previous generations that had to take on the ...
Editor, Naming oppression does not cause oppression. The lack of theoretical clarity over the concept of race is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in eliminating racial inequality. Most social scientists would agree there is no biological basis for categorizing people into distinct racial groups ...
by Colin Donoghue Daily Lobo columnist I often hear of the progress our nation has made in eliminating racism, but this self-praise should be restrained. Of course progress has been made, yet the severe racism that still exists is often ignored. Those who believe in a renewed America in which ...
This is the first of a monthly feature on the Daily Lobo's Opinion page, a forum open to the UNM and local community for thoughtful exchange on a variety of ideas and events ranging from the abstract to the concrete and the local to the international. There are broad issues that concern almost everyone, ...
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