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.
Editor, With the U.S. military's death toll in Iraq rising to more than 2,000, I find myself reading articles stating we need to pull out and bring our troops home. We need to remember these people out there have never known freedom - they have had a dictator running their government for years and years.
Editor, I write in hopes of alerting people to the current state of recycling on campus. Traveling from class to class, it's hard not to notice how few options there are on what to do with garbage. Although our campus is in most places fairly clean, there's a constant problem of litter around bus stations and newspaper kiosks.
Editor, Mark Erasmus erroneously believes if people are denied universal health care, they will probably adhere to healthy lifestyles. Right-wing politicians in other countries echoed this attitude before those states initiated universal health care. The New York City Public Health Association coordinated a study a few years ago focusing on other countries' universal health care systems and discovered poor people heavily utilized the free health services at first, but the numbers decreased as their health status improved, indicating they probably had been following wise health behaviors before these services were available and their wellness depended on more than just healthy behavior.
Editor, I am writing in response to Darren Wood's letter that appeared in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, "Sometimes conquest is the only way to freedom." He compared America's actions in World War II to the preventive war strategy of the Bush administration. His analogy is incorrect.
Editor, I would like to clear up several damaging misconceptions reported in Wednesday's letter to the editor by Mark Erasmus titled "Universal health care plan supports unhealthy habits." I strongly suggest that one does some research before writing a letter to the editor so that objective data is used, as opposed to biased opinion claiming to represent the consensus of the American people.
Editor, I ask my fellow students and Americans that we all take the time to thank those who have served in the nation's military this Veterans Day. Walk up to a veteran and say thank you. By saying thank you, we acknowledge that this life we lead and the freedoms we enjoy did not come cheaply or easily.
Editor, This year, the UNM football team has failed to live up to its fans and its own preseason expectations. The Lobos, who are 5-4 and 3-3 in the Mountain West Conference - and tied for fourth place in the MWC, go to Salt Lake City this weekend to face the other fourth-place team in the conference, the Utah Utes, in a game that could decide the postseason fates of both teams.
Editor, Thursday, the Senate declined a budget reconciliation amendment that would stop the prospect of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Oil companies are now one step closer to turning the last pristine coastline of Alaska into just another oil field.
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