Editor, In his column in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, Andrew Price stated that Carthage lost the Second Punic War to Rome because the Carthaginian government had no stomach for the casualties and feared the power of a triumphant Hannibal. This is either a grand display of ignorance or a wonderful example of twisting history to match one's political opinions.
Editor, Earlier this semester I wrote a letter about the lack of credentials and education in the employees of Student Affairs, and John Bauer's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo frighteningly affirms that there are employees at UNM who have no business in the field of educating young minds.
Editor, A letter from 90 faculty and human rights organizations was recently sent to the presidents and athletic directors of NCAA Division I colleges and universities, urging them to adopt a policy to refrain from engaging in athletic competition with colleges and universities that maintain American-Indian imagery in their sports mascots.
Editor, Life is about opportunities - one door closes and another opens. Our president, Louis Caldera, is committed to opening doors for each and every student at UNM, and we at the Anderson Schools of Management are doing our part. In partnership with other entities on campus, we are sponsoring a Universitywide business plan competition.
Editor, Avian flu has been all over the news for a number of months now. The consensus seems to be that we are due to have a worldwide pandemic of the flu that will result in the death of millions of people. While H5N1 bird flu hasn't been found in the United States, in 2004 we had a number of confirmed cases of H5N2 bird flu in Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and Texas, among other states.
Editor, It was once said that before one can truly know where one's enemies stand, one must first know where one is standing. In her letter to the editor in Monday's Daily Lobo, Katarina Garcia's commentary was outrageous, particularly for a college-educated person in 2005.
Editor, The president and vice president of the United States are responsible for their offices. I recently sent a letter to my only representative in the U.S. Congress, Heather Wilson, about the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney for treason, war crimes and misdemeanors.
by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist We have just lost soldier No. 2,000 in Iraq. Although invading Iraq and Afghanistan and trying to give the people of those countries democracy and freedom was absolutely the right thing to do, we never should have done it.
Editor, Social liberalism is sustaining and encouraging public education, rather than running amok as John Bauer states in Monday's Daily Lobo. His diatribe enthusiastically paints broad political canvasses with a few tiny brushstrokes and lambastes the privileged halls of academia while ignoring the poor and unfortunate.
Editor, I would like to comment on letters this week regarding terrorism and its causes. I was waiting for some UNM history, political science or military instructor to speak up, but none have. First, terrorism is a tactic. You cannot declare war on a tactic.
Editor, Lately, I hear more and more cases of extremist Christians offending the general public in attempts to "save" us. It is painful to hear about Christians being stereotyped as war-mongering, judgmental, self-righteous naysayers - especially by those who are extremists themselves.
Editor, An illustrative example of the progressive disintegration of our public school system - and therefore our culture - was to be found in last Wednesday's Daily Lobo. In a letter run in that issue, a student - apparently a young want-to-be lawyer - ranted and whined about not being able to use her calculator for the final exam in a math course.
Editor, In the next few weeks, a showdown vote on protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is expected in both the United States House and Senate. Having failed at previous attempts to drill in this pristine natural treasure, the oil industry and their allies in Congress are using sneaky, bureaucratic maneuvering to include Arctic drilling in the federal budget reconciliation bill.
Editor, Regarding the alleged battery upon preacher Matt Bourgault, I relate entirely to both sides. Emotionally propped by my indoctrination as a hellfire Christian, I was a street preacher for years. Later, as a more emotionally stable agnostic with a Ph.
Editor, I am appalled at the University's stance on the incident involving the hateful evangelist. Sure, he had every right to be on campus because of his permit, and he had every right to say whatever he wanted - as long as it does not violate the rights of UNM students.
Editor, In a number of recent letters to the editor in your newspaper, the term terrorism has been used in a limited sense to mean violence against Western people and interests. As defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica, terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.
Editor, I applaud Colin Donoghue's column in last Friday's Daily Lobo, "Jesus was no Republican," and Ralph Arellanes Jr.'s letter in Monday's Lobo. Jesus taught us to love our enemies and to do good to them. During the first 200 years after Jesus, no followers of Jesus became soldiers.
Editor, I will agree with Matt Bourgault, who demonstrated outside the SUB on Wednesday, that evangelism is the responsibility of Christians, as commanded in the book of Matthew. And I agree that college campuses can be places of licentious parties and moral decay.
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