by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist If you live in the University neighborhood south of Central Avenue and are walking home down an alley littered with beer cans, and you happen to see a few cornstalks peeking over a fence trellised with a vine of ripe green beans, you will have found the house of someone with a soft spot for the past.
Editor, With the skyrocketing costs of textbooks and the drastic reduction in grant aid, students and their parents all around the country have to work harder to afford college. The Republican-controlled Congress reconvened after Labor Day to tackle major national issues, including the looming national deficit.
Editor, I graduated from UNM last spring and still receive the e-mail version of the Daily Lobo. To be honest, I rarely even open it, but for whatever reason I did today. I read the "America's Favorite Drug" column, as it had a catchy title. It states that Zimmerman Library has the only Starbucks located in a university library in the country.
Editor, It comes as no surprise that UNM would not hire someone who sparked a controversial and intellectual debate. UNM does not seem to be interested in hiring the best and the brightest, at least when it comes to staff members in Student Affairs. If you look at the eJobs Web site, where UNM posts their jobs, you will see many serious and positive job openings.
Editor, Last semester, I hated this paper. I even wrote a not-so-cool letter to the editor. I hardly ever bothered to pick up an issue, the quality of the paper made me that mad. Now I read it every day because it's actually worth reading. I think Rivkela Brodsky makes a great editor, and the quality of the Daily Lobo has gone up because of her.
Editor, The title of the article about Constitution Day last Monday suggested this mandatory observance was unnecessary or an imposition merely forced upon us. Furthermore, quoting Professor Kierst saying our Constitution was not created to protect minority rights seemed to downplay its importance.
Editor, It is unacceptable for this so-called institute of higher learning to refuse a professor - in this case, Richard Berthold - the opportunity to teach Greek history or any other subject he or she is qualified to teach because he or she speaks an open mind.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist Well, it finally happened. Just as I predicted, a conglomerate dealing solely in variations of brown liquid, affectionately referred to in some circles as "mud," is taking over the world. That's right, there is now a Starbucks in Zimmerman Library, of all places.
Editor, I'd like to inform Wesley Reed, the student quoted in the article "Students search for reason to vote" in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, that we should vote because we are students. We should vote because we are citizens of the state of New Mexico and of the United States of America.
Editor, Why should students vote in the Oct. 4 election? Well, for starters, if you work for minimum wage, this is your chance to vote yourself a raise. One of the referenda on the ballot this year is the living wage initiative. This would raise the minimum wage in Albuquerque from $5.
Editor, I appreciate the thought-provoking headline, "Students search for reason to vote." It reminded me to do something I haven't for a couple of weeks. I'd like to say thank you to all the veterans who have sacrificed for the cause of democracy. Thanks to all of you and to the families of those who have given their all so that I can have a voice in how I'm governed.
Editor, I write to express my displeasure and concern about Provost Dasenbrock's decision rescinding professor Berthold's plans to teach a course in Greek history in the UNM Honors program. It seems extraordinary that an administrator can make an academic decision at all and, moreover, one based upon the following allegations: not adhering to professional standards, not correcting deficiencies in performances and having a poor service record within the history department.
Editor, I resent the premise of Christopher Sanchez's article, "Students search for reason to vote" - that a reason to vote needs finding. Given that neither of the names of the students quoted in the article shows up in the Bernalillo County voter database, perhaps Sanchez should have asked whether his subjects were registered to vote before the interview began.
Editor, City Councilor Eric Griego is unique among the candidates in the upcoming mayoral race to be held in Albuquerque on Oct. 4 because he is the only candidate who seems to value the concept of interdependence in his policy agenda. I usually associate the word interdependence with the science of ecology, as it explains that all living and non-living things are connected to one another in what is commonly referred to as the web of life.
Editor, Richard Berthold's problem is his ego. Thinking that students are deprived without his presence in the classroom is ridiculous. The University has every right to deny him a part-time teaching position. The University is not in business of employing radical thinkers.
Editor, I am writing in response to Michael Tahani's letter to the Daily Lobo in Tuesday's paper, in which he said, "The problem with religion is that everyone thinks their religion is the right one." I ask, who would subscribe to a religion they think to be the wrong one? Everyone subscribes to the worldview they believe to be right, whether it's religious or atheistic.
Editor, On June 24 of this year, the First Baptist Church of Los Lunas hired a pest control company to eradicate prairie dogs on its property. The method the company used to kill the animals was legal, but certainly not humane orˇsmart. They were fumigating the burrows with a deadly gas.
Editor, In their letter to the Daily Lobo, students Josh Tybur and Holly Victorson proposed the elimination of UNM's shuttle system. As a student who commutes to UNM from outside Albuquerque, I feel the reasons cited need to be refuted. One of the chief complaints is the inefficiency of the shuttle system.
Solutions by The State News
