Editor, America is once again preparing to pay tribute to the contributions of its African-American citizens. Great men and women such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will have their stories told and their legacies celebrated, and rightly so. This year, however, ...
by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist The Albuquerque Journal reported this month that Highland High School has been experiencing what it calls ethnic tensions, and that it held a meeting between the school's administration, faculty, parents and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
Editor, Black History Month began in 1926 when Carter Woodson founded Negro History Week. The son of former slaves, Woodson saw the week as a way of educating black people about their history, which at the time was largely ignored in public schools. Fast-forward to today - actor Morgan Freeman stated ...
Editor, School papers, particularly university publications, have the propensity for lewd, idiotic and bigoted content. The fine line between academic semantics and frat house humor, however, must be carefully kept in balance. I was particularly perturbed to discover this line crossed in Thursday's ...
Editor, I am surprised that at UNM, as liberal as it is, a student would write in with such a closed-minded and obviously uneducated view of the United Arab Emirates port deal. I guess it's not so surprising, though, when you read the newspapers and see that the majority in Congress - including ...
Editor, So the University of New Mexico Board of Regents will now look for a president who has a background in academia, is familiar with university culture, and has experience running a large research university. Well, duh. The UNM faculty urged the regents to do this in 2003, but they wouldn't ...
Editor, The Daily Lobo reporter, Rivkela Brodsky, is unaware of the campus history related to Sankirtan das, the Hare Krishna daily chanter and the subject of her story in Friday's Lobo. The reason he is outside Popejoy Hall is because he previously spent a good 10 years chanting daily around noon ...
Editor, Philosophers are often remembered in two distinct ways: for their contributions to an academic body of literature, and, more personally, for the inspiration they leave in the hearts of their students. Fred Sturm, while no mere bystander in the publishing world, was above all a teacher. ...
Editor, Unbelievable. Am I hearing this correctly? The United Arab Emirates has been completely vetted and President Bush has now cleared them to own several U.S. ports? And I'm supposed to trust that this is OK because I'm hearing it from good old untrustworthy Bush? Surely, the security ...
Editor, I am writing in an attempt to dissuade ASUNM from further lobbying on behalf of a review week before finals week. I feel this effort is a mistake and, if successful, will only harm students by lowering the academic standards of the University. A professor of mine recently remarked that ...
Editor, I have had no medical insurance for more than 15 years, and I do not want any. I aim never to go to medical doctors for the rest of my life. Now - at age 60 - I am in better health than I was at 21. I prevent and heal disease naturally. I stopped eating junk food and meat largely in the ...
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist By now, unless you live in a cave, you've probably heard that Dick Cheney, the vice president of the United States, shot one of his constituents. Apparently, Dick shot his hunting buddy from 30 yards away, enough distance in hunting circles to determine that ...
Editor, No government should support harm in the guise of help. Henry David Thoreau said, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, one is striking at the root." Nowhere is this more evident than in the Legislature's consideration of the bill called Kendra's Law. For those not familiar ...
Editor, I think it's high time the media got into high gear. Cheney's shooting of an innocent hunter - well, the guy is a lawyer - was criminal on three counts. Cheney was drunk, did not have a proper hunting license and he shot a guy in the face. I lived in Corpus Christi, and am very familiar with ...
"Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease." That was the New York Times front-page headline earlier this month shrieking the results of the largest study ever conducted examining the link between diet and cardiovascular disease. The Women's Health Initiative study included 49,000 subjects over a nine-year period.
Editor, Americans, including New Mexicans, prize our national parks, but the Bush administration's budget ignores pressing park needs by proposing a $100 million cut. Despite continued budget pressures in an unstable world, this budget does not reflect the priority that Americans place on our national ...
Editor, First I would like to say that I have heard many good reasons to ban smoking on campus, but I believe they were framed by poor arguments, so I feel that I should make an attempt of my own. I understand the risks of smoking, as I am a slave to it. I would, however, be surprised if someone ...
Editor, Despite the prevalence of drunken driving fatalities, few would argue that we should bring back Prohibition to prevent certain individuals from driving drunk. Despite the prevalence of gun-related fatalities, many people staunchly oppose any form of gun control. Yet many New Mexicans seem ...
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