Editor, If the New Mexico Legislature decides to raise the minimum wage for tens of thousands of New Mexicans, this may well turn out to be the most important public health improvement measure ever attempted in this state. The reason is quite simple - poverty is a health issue as much as it is ...
Editor, I am writing in response to Nicole Dellinger's letter in Monday's issue of the Daily Lobo regarding the proposed statewide raise of the minimum wage. In her letter, Dellinger gives considerable weight to her ideas about the effect of the minimum wage increase on Santa Fe's local economy. I ...
Editor, In Friday's Daily Lobo, Marie-Michele Jasmin-Belisle responded to the Daily Lobo's question of the week about the qualities needed in the new UNM president by saying, "He should be more environmentally conscious. There's no recycling - people throw away everything." With respect to Jasmin-Belisle, ...
Editor, In the Victorian era, English society was governed by what I call a "moralocracy." That is, anything that was deemed immoral was equated with wickedness, and therefore subject to prohibition in polite society. Today in the United States, we still pretty much live under a moralocracy that ...
Editor, Thanks to the UNM regents for bringing back New Mexico culture: mediocrity. At a time when all colleges and universities within the contiguous United States are raising their standards, UNM will be going in the opposite direction by reducing standards to compensate for mediocrity. Classified ...
Editor, I think it's great that the governor is allocating monies to the University. However, couldn't some of the funds go to improving our aging classroom and lab facilities? Obviously, Mr. Richardson has never sat through a class in Mitchell Hall or done any chemistry experiments in our lab facilities. ...
Editor, In response to Lucia Fronterotta's letter in Friday's Daily Lobo, I agree that printing can be a problem. But some of the responsibility for the problems must rest with faculty and the students. Often students will submit the same print job three or more times instead of waiting for the job ...
Editor, I am writing to express my disgust about the pro-choice letters in recent issues of the Daily Lobo. First of all, I would like to know when women got together collectively and decided that we should be allowed to make the decision to murder innocent babies, because apparently I did not get ...
Editor, When something goes wrong in the United States, the first person to be blamed is the president, so I guess it is no surprise that UNM students are holding Louis Caldera responsible for every single problem at the University. Rivkela Brodsky's editorial was harsh and unfair. I'm sorry, but ...
Editor, I am writing in response to Jennifer George's letter in last Monday's Daily Lobo. George seems to think it appalling that the people who were asked in a photo interview had an overall opinion of not wanting the minimum wage increase. First, I would like to recommend a basic economics class ...
Editor, I am writing to express my frustration about the computer pods on campus - especially the SUB computer pod. There has to be an easier and less frustrating way to get each student his or her print jobs. This semester, I have waited over 30 minutes every time I went to a pod to receive something ...
Editor, I found Jason Darensburg's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo quite repetitive. His letter was basically just restating the classic pro-choice argument that a woman should be able to choose what she does with her own body. I have found this argument to be untenable and flawed for three reasons. ...
Editor, In response to Jason Darensburg's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, I found a few of his comments to be slightly disturbing. First of all, who is he to tell Benjamin Sanchez, "Jesus thinks you're a jerk"? Did the spirit of God actually tell him what Jesus thinks of Sanchez? In either case, ...
Editor, Wednesday's events force us to consider the qualities that we want the next UNM president to possess. As a university, UNM primarily sells one product: an education for students. I feel that our next president needs to possess an academic focus and, inherently, a student focus as well. President ...
Editor, I am aware of the Daily Lobo's policy limiting the printing of responses to letters, but nonetheless I feel that to leave this issue as is would be an injustice to the idea of balanced representation in the media. My particular qualm stems from the oversimplification and perhaps even misinterpretation ...
Editor, So another president leaves UNM with a nice payoff. If the resignation is immediate, why are we giving Caldera six months' salary? This is money the University does not have - otherwise the regents would not have had to implement the recent tax on departmental budgets to cover other institutional ...
Editor, What a sweet deal. Resign and get paid for it - do you blame Caldera? Oh, and receive a position in the UNM School of Law, too. It might be better for UNM that President Caldera is leaving, but maybe not. Maybe the UNM Board of Regents is really doing us all a favor, or maybe not. One ...
Editor, There are few issues that elicit as strong reactions as course evaluations. It is not uncommon to hear comments from students such as, "My input does not matter, and it won't change anything." Among faculty, there are widely held views that course evaluations are popularity contests, and ...
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