Opinion

Letter: Student from New Orleans found hospitality at UNM

Editor, Missing the first three weeks of the semester is a surefire way to make it go by more quickly.

Letter: Improper gum disposal shows state of society

Editor, This letter is in response to Wednesday's article in the Daily Lobo called "Chewing away stress of finals" about Wrigley's sponsorship of finals week at UNM.

Letter: People celebrated winter long before birth of Jesus

Editor, It amazes me every year how many people begin to rant about the true meaning of Christmas and then spout off their Christian values.

Column: Shaping up for final exams

by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist Last week, students in South Korea held an anti-exam festival.

Letter: Prohibiting UNM vendors homogenizes campus

Editor, When I first came to this campus five years ago, I was delighted to see the little stalls set up outside Popejoy Hall and the SUB selling scarves, dresses, jewelry, incense, wind chimes and all sorts of novelties and trinkets. My favorite soon became the Sunglass Guy, who sold cheap sunglasses - 3 pairs for $10 - to us green Easterners who were unprepared for the high desert glare.

Letter: Vendors are a unique part of campus community

Editor, When I first came to the University as an undergraduate in 1992, one of the things that let me know I was in a very different part of the country were the vendors in front of the Student Union Building: the used book guy, the jewelry lady, the Tibetan folks and the lady with Guatemalan goodies.

Letter: Society needs to put Christ back in Christmas

Editor, Well, it's that time of year again. Time for bustling crowds in the malls, standing in long lines at the checkouts and shopping all day looking for that perfect gift.

Ed Toons

Letter: Street vendors contribute to cultural experience

Editor, I feel that outside vendors should be allowed to come back to UNM. The vendors we used to have were a wonderful part of UNM daily life and so much more educational.

Column: Playing the patriot card

by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist National Security Notice: If you are serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq - or if you may be called up for future service in Iraq -- and have somehow stumbled across this article, stop reading immediately.

Letter: Columnist ignorant about Sony's privacy violations

Editor, The column "Stealing sounds innocent when you call it 'file sharing'" by Joe Buffaloe, printed in the Daily Lobo last Thursday, is probably one of the most ignorant and misleading rants I have read.

Letter: Arguement lacks facts, full of emotional rhetoric

Editor, In his letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo, Brian Fejer shows once again that he is long on rhetoric yet lacking in the due diligence department.

Letter: Staying in Iraq attracts attacks against the West

Editor, Phil Sitges' letter in last Friday's Daily Lobo compared the United States' efforts against terrorism to a bug zapper.

Letter: Union membership should be seen as a human right

Editor, All we are asking for is respect and to do what is right in a time when the corporate world sees dollar signs in the exploitation of workers.

Letter: Free Microsoft program problematic to computers

Editor, In Thursday's Daily Lobo article, "Students promote Microsoft for cash," Caleb Fort quotes Simone Mehta as saying, "The word 'free' makes some students instantly suspicious." Well, there is usually a catch when it comes to Microsoft.

Letter: Pacifist liberal distortions hurt America's good aims

Editor, I am writing this letter to respond to Gregg Ozimek's letter defending his beloved liberal media and his ideas about American foreign policy.

Letter: America consumed with blind, arrogant ignorance

Editor, The claim that the United States media are helplessly tilted toward a biased, critical left - blindly lashing out at the government in their fanatic wrath over self-inflicted political failures - displays utter or even deliberate ignorance of the dire straits in which this country is increasingly entangled.

Ed Toons

Letter: UNM's policy on vendors

Editor, I found Student Union Building director Walt Miller's comments in the Daily Lobo greatly troubling, and I suggest he clarify them.

Letter: Squash terrorism outside, before it flies in the house

Editor, What the liberal left and Green Party supporters need to understand about the war on terrorism can be summarized by the example of a bug zapper. You don't hang the bug zapper in the house so the bugs fly around the house before you kill them in the zapper.