Opinion

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.

Letter: Christmas traditions do not please everyone

Editor, There once was a special day that people called Christmas. Dec. 25 was chosen in the year 336 so that Christians could celebrate the birth of a special little boy.

Letter: Register bikes with UNM to prove valid ownership

Editor, Have you ever had your bicycle stolen? If not, you might. A 1994 study of bicycle theft on college campuses in the United States conducted by Integrated Cycle Systems found that a four-year college student has a 53 percent chance of having his or her bike stolen.

Letter: Republicans' language of lies is society's opiate

Editor, The Bush presidency should be giving us some second thoughts about the deep function of language. Specifically, is language the means whereby we communicate with each other, or is it the means whereby we lie to each other? This presidency has raised lying to a science.

Letter: War duties may change reader's perspective

Editor, Since submitting my letter in response to Colin Donoghue's column on media bias, I have seen three responses to that initial letter published in the Daily Lobo.ˇ My intent was to trigger a response and simply share some statistics reflecting positively on our soldier's efforts that may not be common knowledge.

Urban Sprawl

Editor, I am somewhat safe here in the University Area, pretty well impervious to the shoddy construction of new subdivisions. The houses here are old and beautiful, each one unique. What are we doing here, turning this place into another Phoenix? Have you seen the sprawl there? The East Coast ...

Unwelcome Class Visit

I'm a teaching assistant in the English department here at UNM. I've been warned about the problems I could encounter while teaching English 101. But I was neither warned nor had I anticipated an incident that took place in my classroom on the morning of Friday the 18th. I was getting ready to ...

Letter: Low testosterone causes male violence and anger

Editor, The cause of male violence is not too much testosterone. The cave drawings in Europe made 5,500 to 9,500 years ago show a more peaceful way of living with relatively few scenes of men raping or killing. These cave drawings depict a more equal and fair society than ours, where women were not under men - men and women lived as partners.