Opinion

Ed Toons

Letter: Better classrooms, labs should be financial priority

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. ...

Letter: Students, staff can easily make pod printing faster

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 ...

Letter: With options available, abortion is inexcusable

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 ...

Letter: Caldera worked hard for ungrateful students

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 ...

Letter: Econ 101: Raising wages will backfire on the poor

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 ...

Ed Toons

Letter: Printing at computer pods is unacceptably inefficient

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 ...

Letter: Pro-choice argument is flawed for three reasons

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. ...

Letter: Father should have a say in choice to have abortion

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, ...

Letter: Students should help search for next president

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 ...

Letter: Incentives, sexism root of sex-selective abortions

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 ...

Letter: Money too scarce to pay Caldera after resignation

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 ...

Letter: Caldera paid for resigning while UNM gets poorer

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 ...

Letter: Instructor evaluations may undergo makeover

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 ...

Letter: U.S. should set example by eliminating all nukes

Editor, I've been reading articles in New Mexico and out-of-state newspapers concerning the insistence of this administration that Iran, North Korea and other Third World countries not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons programs. They say it would threaten our security. Other countries that presently ...

Editorial: Next UNM president should know students

Being a student at UNM is more than just attending classes and trying to get good grades. It's about making connections, joining organizations and forming relationships with teachers and peers. Being president of this University is about more than fundraising and serving the University's needs. It's ...

Ed Toons

Letter: No womb? Then no right to make abortion decision

Editor, Ignorant men are the greatest threat to women's liberation. In regard to Benjamin Sanchez' moronic and insulting letter explaining how abortion is the greatest threat to women's liberation, I'd just like to remind him of one simple fact that perhaps has been overlooked by a lot of the abortion opponents: As a man, he and other men have no right to tell any woman what to do with her body.

Letter: No womb? Then no right to make abortion decision

Editor, Ignorant men are the greatest threat to women's liberation. In regard to Benjamin Sanchez' moronic and insulting letter explaining how abortion is the greatest threat to women's liberation, I'd just like to remind him of one simple fact that perhaps has been overlooked by a lot of the abortion opponents: As a man, he and other men have no right to tell any woman what to do with her body.