Editor, I strongly support the governor's plans to expel junk food for a healthy new year in New Mexico schools. When I first pitched this idea to legislators in 1999 in the context of creating the New Mexico Nutrition Council, with express powers to reject harmful food additives even if they were FDA approved, 14 out of 42 state senators agreed to cosponsor it.
Editor, Monday morning was supposed to be a typical day for me. I woke up, got in my daily workout at Johnson Gym, and ended up at Frontier Restaurant for breakfast. What I learned while waiting for my usual order of Cheerios was that one of my favorite authors and American-Indian scholar, Vine Deloria Jr.
by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist I was walking in a straight line headed toward my Human Sexuality and Development class when I blundered upon a crowd in the midst of which stood a man holding a black sign and shouting. For some reason, the shouter singled me out and yelled, "You are headed straight to hell!" Why does everyone always want to yell at me? At first I wondered how he knew that I was headed to Psychology 231, and then I realized he meant hell as in eternal damnation.
Editor, In his column, "Vouching for vouchers," in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, Dane Roberts speaks of "the impossibility of standardizing our public schools" and believes "the state shouldn't assume the task of defining how or what each kid should learn." Roberts imagines an ideal world in which principals could choose teachers who match their educational beliefs and teachers could focus on teaching kids.
Editor, Regarding the tribute to Yasser Arafat, I can say I can appreciate his overlooked endeavors. However, to say that signing the Camp David offer would have been a stab in the back is a glib simplification. Arafat simply rejected the offer. He did not counteroffer or put forth any proposals of his own.
Editor, Having read Katy Knapp's article, "Students complain of library clamor," I couldn't agree more. I haven't experienced noise from events in the Willard Room - however, there are tours that take individuals through Zimmerman. The Zimmerman guides and guests are extremely loud.
Editor, The Daily Lobo article last week on UNM challenging water fines was rather enlightening. Contrary to what the director of Physical Plant says, I have noticed frequent water waste on this campus since I began working here, not just "on occasion," as she claims.
Editor, Colin Donoghue's column for the Daily Lobo, "Jesus was no Republican" is laudable and significant in many ways. The fact that it takes a non-Christian to unveil the truth of Christianity buried under the moral, social and physical rubble of a belligerent society that deems itself Christian not only unmasks the hypocrisy of a government that has perverted a pacifist religion into a warfare ideology, it admonishes Christian believers to take an explicit and visible stance against the current perversion of their religion.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist In my last column, I argued that education is so laden with personal values that the state shouldn't assume the task of defining how or what each kid should learn. The issue of evolution versus creationism in the science curriculum perfectly illustrates the impossibility of standardizing our public schools.
Editor, I would like to commend our U.S. senators - including our own representatives Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, among many others - for finally putting the pressure on the oil company executives. These price drops are just in time for ski season, and coincidentally around the same time of several indictments, charges of corruption and CIA leak investigations.
Editor, I am writing in response to the column "Immaculate contraception" by Lucinda Ulrich in Friday's Daily Lobo. This column is a free association of negative comments about large families rather than a well-thought-out essay on child rearing. I come from a family of eight children.
Editor, This letter is in response to the remarks made by the head coach of the U.S. Air Force Academy regarding African-American student-athletes. In an interview on Oct. 25 regarding his team's game against TCU, coach Fisher DeBerry claimed the Air Force Academy's less-than-stellar performance on the playing field is attributed to TCU "having more African-American players on their team who can run very, very well.
Editor, I chose this topic to mark the remembrance of a great man that we lost a year ago this month: Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat was simply a man who fought for freedom of his people. He was a freedom fighter, a liberator, a peacemaker and a man of integrity.
Editor, Several weeks ago and again on Wednesday, "religious Christians" - zealots - came to campus and harassed UNM students by calling us sinners and telling us we are all going to hell. Questions regarding freedom of speech and the legitimacy of the event itself aside, I believe this event demonstrates one serious flaw in UNM policy that both insults the hard work of UNM student organizations and provides unfair support from the UNM Police Department to zealous religious groups that come to visit campus.
Editor, I have been keeping up with the articles and editorials about the radical preachers around campus. I sat down in the Student Union Building to read the editorial page as usual, when I came across Joseph Basso's letter. He said he is willing to answer any questions people have about Christianity without assaulting them.
by Maceo Carrillo Martinet Daily Lobo columnist Why should we be surprised to learn about the oil shortage that is starting to hit this generation? If we combine our over-consumptive lifestyles with the fact that we have cut down entire landscapes of forests to suit our needs and wants, then why can't we also achieve in depleting oil? Don't we use our waterways to carry away our trash, causing people downstream to get sick and the fish to disappear or act abnormal? What makes us think we would treat the oil supply any differently? Running out of oil is just another example of how our lifestyles are catching up to us.
Editor, I was there Wednesday when the preachers took the pulpit and began their preaching - again. I am a Christian and am open about my faith, but what I heard coming from the mouth of one of the preachers saddened and angered me. I, first of all, wish to tell the student body and faculty that this is not the correct representation of the Jesus of the Bible.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist So much for being a little pregnant, as if that was ever possible anyway - now there's such a thing as being a lot pregnant. I was perusing the Health Channel when I stumbled upon the story of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, proudly pregnant with their 15th - you read it right, their 15th - child.
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