Editor, I respectfully disagree with your editorial "Death of Saddam's sons not a victory." I object to your assertion that killing these evil overseers of Saddam's apparatus of torture and mayhem serves no purpose because the Fadeyeen will keep on killing, our troops will keep on dying and Saddam remains free.
by Beverly Burris Daily Lobo Columnist Faculty Senate President I've been returning to school in the early fall and late summer for more than four decades, first as an elementary school student in the 1950s, through many levels of schooling, as a secondary school teacher for a time and for the past 20 years as a professor.
Editor, The silent majority of United Staff-UNM is alive and well. However, after reading the Regents' resolution on labor relations management, I realize that we have missed the opportunity this year to proceed with the petition process. The appropriate time frame for submission of a petition for a decertification election would be between March 30 and April 30 of the year in which the contract expires.
Editor, As a non-dues paying member of United Staff-UNM, I would like to begin the movement to eliminate the union as a bargaining agent for those of us trapped in union membership. I have not been concerned with United Staff-UNM's position or actions until now, however it has now become a personal issue.
by Aryn Seiller Daily Lobo Columnist If you think global capitalism has not damned us yet, look at what it's doing to our food. As one of our necessary resources, food is heavily mismanaged to secure Western hegemony in foreign countries. At this point, people do not starve from shortages of food; people die because food is globally manipulated, even in Albuquerque.
With the deaths of Odai and Qusai Hussein, President George W. Bush has said it is the most significant sign yet that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone and not coming back. Isn't this what the public was being told back in May at the supposed end of the Iraqi war? That two of Saddam's highest-ranking officials, namely his sons, are dead makes little difference to the American soldiers and families of soldiers who are still suffering casualties while occupying Iraq.
Editor, It is quite disturbing to find out that the president of the United States of America knowingly manipulated the American people into believing Saddam Hussein was a nuclear threat to us and to the world (New York Times, July 7, 2003.) Using The State of The Union Address as a soapbox, President George Walker Bush, looked into the eyes of the world, and spread fear and lies.
UNM is not a leashless dog park and shouldn't be treated as such. Those willing to take a stroll around north campus are well advised to carry a large rock or stick on their journey. For what purpose? For the purpose of warding off dogs and ensuring their own safety against puncture wounds and rabies.
Editor, Boy, your new editorial board must be seriously jonesing with that added 70 cents per pack and all. I bet they've thought seriously about the tradeoffs between the costs of driving to Sandia or Isleta Pueblos and the cost of a carton up the street at Smith's.
Editor, While going to UNM since 1997 I have noticed vagrants becoming an all too familiar scene. They stand on the corner of the bookstore and outside of surrounding businesses. However, they are becoming an increasingly growing nuisance in areas where I feel they should not be.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Occasionally I get calls to pick up baby birds or injured birds on campus. I don't mind picking them up when I am on campus, but there are people you can call who are far more qualified than me when it comes to baby animals.
Editor, In a letter to the editor in the June 26 - July 2 edition of the Daily Lobo a Ms. Osborn asks, "Why do we allow US-UNM union to represent us?" I know why I allow US-UNM to represent me. It is the only voice we UNM employees have in the legislature and US-UNM, in conjunction with NMFEE, with whom we are affiliated, have been successful in improving our situation at UNM.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist One of the reasons cockfighters give for legitimatising their "sport" is because it is a tradition. In many cases a tradition is a man's inclination to subjugate women, children and animals. In many societies women are raped, beaten, enslaved as sexual toys, exploited as wives, sold for money, used for entertainment and cheap labor and subjugated in other ways that defy the imagination but are considered traditions.
One of America's most recognized and respected figures once said, "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." It would seem that today this adage holds firmer than when Benjamin Franklin proclaimed it in 1789. In 2003 not much has changed except that now the government that is pushing unfair and unrealistic tax policy is not only our own, but also selectively burdening a specific component of the population.
by Richard "The Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist I took off work last Friday and visited the zoo with a friend of mine, Viki Elkey. It was the first time I have been there in 15 years, and it is still as depressing now as it was then. Somehow I think zoos have lost their relevancy in our society.
Editor, The recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School has created a great deal of controversy in America for all the wrong reasons. Americans are once again going back to the archaic practice of "Us vs.
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