Opinion

Ed Toons

Letter: Residents deserve second study on contamination

Editor, From 1972 to 1993, the Terminal Effects Research and Analysis Group - a department of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - tested and developed weapons containing depleted uranium on the mountain next to the community of Socorro. In 1986, there was significant discussion within the community when it learned that the testing was with a radioactive material.

Letter: UNM still full of character, culture half a century later

Editor, I graduated from the University of New Mexico 45 years ago. I am from Ethiopia, and there were four of us at UNM from that country.

Column: New semester brings hope

by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist Ah, the first days of a new semester. The only time of year I don't have to suffer through a gauntlet of bureaucracy, technology and everyday life to survive as graduate student at UNM - as was illustrated by the last days of the fall semester. Files saved to CDs mysteriously disappeared; papers that were painstakingly crafted and saved to the hard drive of my laptop were mysteriously locked the day before most of them were due; research files for a paper that was worth almost 50 percent of my grade in one class was saved in a departmental cyberspace campus network - with assurance from a technical expert that I would be able to access this information from any computer in the universe.

Letter: Humans unlikely to get cancer from aspartame

Editor, I am writing in regard to Stephen Fox's letter on the toxicity of aspartame published in the Jan.

Ed Toons

Letter: The mentally ill are often stigmatized by society

Editor, There is a fine line between right and wrong. I believe Anne Rice's letter to the Daily Lobo regarding students' ignorance about mental illness makes a crude point that education and psychology are going to bring students to the light, which is not necessarily true.

Letter: New Mexicans receive poor health care services

Editor, May I suggest a book for those students who have a social consciousness to help them understand the erosion of American democracy?

Letter: Calling war critics cowards reminiscent of fascism

Editor, According to Cali Garcia's letter in the Jan. 9 issue of the Daily Lobo, "We fight on - pissed off, but fighting on." The irony is that, presumably, Garcia is fighting for democracy, yet he claims to fight for "our idea of what it should be like, not yours." So peace is not a part of your agenda?

Letter: Eminent domain laws hurt investment in Rio Rancho

Editor, I recently became aware of a Rio Rancho City Council meeting for the blighting and eminent domain takeover of a portion of Unit 10 in Rio Rancho.

Letter: State should crack down on uninsured motorists

Editor, Gov. Richardson's declared Year of the Child should include reducing the probability that our children will be killed on the road. Richardson and the New Mexico Legislature have the power to help reduce the senseless injury and deaths of many men, women and children on the road.

Letter: Don't judge the mentally ill before trying to understand

Editor, Everyone has a right to an opinion, but some education is helpful. By reading Mario Hernandez' comments in his letter in last week's Daily Lobo, it is easy to tell he knows nothing about mental health issues.

Letter: War protesters concerned with well-being of soldiers

Editor, In the Jan. 9 edition of the Daily Lobo, Cali Garcia takes columnist Dane Roberts to task for not doing any hard research to back up his claim that troop morale isn't affected by protests against the war here at home.

Letter: President Bush a traitor to cause of democracy

Editor, It is believed that Voltaire said something like, "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Today we have a president who is trying to use the fact that some people do not support his policies to label those people as traitors to the cause of democracy, and thereby increase his power and control over all of the citizens on this nation.

Letter: Hyde's family deserves apology for false letter

Editor, My first reaction upon reading the letter by Mario Hernandez was to be furious with him for stating opinions so forcefully when he has clearly made no effort to learn the facts of the case.

Ed Toons

Letter: Many brave Americans oppose Iraq invasion

Editor, I am responding to a letter that appeared in last week's Daily Lobo. Cali Garcia, a UNM alumnus, stated those who criticize the Defense Department or President Bush are sissies.

Letter: Hyde's history of mental illness a documented fact

Editor, We all enjoy the uplift of a rant about personal responsibility, but Mario Hernandez would appear to have not read the newspapers very well in writing his letter in last Monday's Daily Lobo regarding John Hyde.

Letter: Whisked away by the cozy sounds of a sousaphone?

Editor, Thank you, Debra Au, for a great review of Mac M's CD, Get Your Big Leg Down. I know Martin, and he is a fantastic musician. He even works at UNM, which shows that real people do exist and work here. I have a feeling, though, that one little item was not exactly what you meant.

Letter: Richardson shifting N.M.'s resources to the wealthy

Editor, My gas bill just jumped to nearly $300, an outrageous cost for a little heat. It is clear Gov. Richardson's fuel rebate was a publicity stunt in the horrible disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and now we are faced with the real bills. I hope the next legislative session rejects Richardson's giveaway of $100 million of our tax money to a wealthy tycoon for a spaceport.