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COLUMN: Variety of events planned

by Heather Gabel ASUNM Vice President We are closing in on the final stretch of yet another school year. And with this comes a lot of excitement and stress. I know that all of you are probably being piled with all your last-minute assignments and tests and some of you, like myself, are trying to get ready to graduate and figure out what you are going to do with your life now that you don't have to register for classes next fall.

LETTER: Fair Trade Coffee should be every day

Editor, My name is Patrick Staib and I am the vice president and co-founder of the UNM Fair Trade Initiative (UNM-FTI). I am writing to clear up some confusion brought about from the Tuesday, April 8 article entitled "Campus to be pouring Fair Trade Coffee soon.

EDITORIAL: News photos require values

Staff Editorial The Lariat (Baylor U.) (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas - With more than 2,000 journalists in the Middle East covering Operation Iraqi Freedom, issues of journalistic integrity - fairness, accuracy and truth - are more pertinent now than ever.

COLUMN: Tax cuts during war

by Doug Ludlow Daily Bruin (U. California-Los Angeles) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - At the height of the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy stood in front of the nation and boldly declared that sacrifice was something required of all Americans. When he proclaimed, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," the American public took him seriously and was willing to forego short-term luxuries in exchange for long-term benefits.

COLUMN: Take luxury out of prisons

by Scott Darnell Daily Lobo Columnist Moral dilemmas exist throughout the political world and their intensely inflammatory nature consistently render any positive solution or compromise virtually impossible. Capital punishment is a rigorous moral debate that has, for years, left two groups of individuals pitted against one another; it's a political subject that most everyone would enjoy seeing some sort of solution to, or at most, some sort of way to avoid such a divisive moral encounter.

LETTER: Starbucks already offers Fair Trade

Editor, As a student here at UNM and a partner of Starbucks Coffee Company, I was surprised about the assertions made in the Daily Lobo article about Fair Trade Coffee on Tuesday. This article contained blatantly incorrect information about Starbucks and its alliance with Fair Trade Coffee.

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LETTER: U.S. losing civil rights

Editor, The last few days have surely been proud ones for the Bush administration. It has secured victory in its fourth war since Sept. 11, 2001. Four wars? Yes, four wars that are all part of a master plan. Going backwards, we have the war with Iraq.

COLUMN: News coverage trivializes war

by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist In Tuesday’s Albuquerque Journal, there was in an AP story about fighting in Baghdad a tiny notice that was a horrifying reminder of what war is really about and that caused me to actually weep. Following a brief discussion of the American policy of firing warning shots at approaching civilians and then shooting to kill was this: “An old man approached, disoriented and alone, faltering forward with his cane after three warning shots.

LETTER: Minorities get special benefits

Editor, I am writing in response to Scott Darnell’s column in the April 4 Lobo. I agree with Darnell’s sentiment. I am part of a majority group — a heterosexual Anglo male, though I was born into the lower class. I knew that to ascend social class, I would have to do well in school and get a good education to get a good job.

COLUMN: Concealed weapons act harmful

According to a recent report, criminal inmate populations grew 11.1 percent last year in New Mexico. With national incarceration rates at an historical high, seeking to lower the number of felonious perpetrators entering into the prison system would seem to be the next logical step for our governing body to take.

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LETTER: Vision slate shoots for more student interaction

Editor, A man named Theodore Hesburgh once said, “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” We feel this could not be truer. On April 16, you will elect a president, vice president and 10 senators to your undergraduate student government (ASUNM).

LETTER: UNM needs to focus on American Indians

Editor, UNM faculty, staff and its students have no understanding of other races except their own kind. I guess that mentality comes from their parents’ upbringing and from society’s bleak outlook on Aboriginal cultures and the gritty nature of “the white man’s” oppression of “colored” peoples in America and around the world.

COLUMN: Pesticide harms more than helps

by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.

LETTER: UNM community can interact with regents

Editor, Today, the regents of the University of New Mexico will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Roberts Room of Scholes Hall to, among other things, set tuition for the 2003-04 academic year (about a 4.5 percent increase) and approve a recommended average percent salary increase (3 percent) for staff and faculty at UNM.

COLUMN: General Library provides tips for writing papers sans Web

by Susan Magee Daily Lobo Guest Columnist The last few weeks of the semester are here and, for those of you who have waited to work on those paper assignments, finding the right resources quickly is going to become crucial very soon. Googling is not the answer because your professor has said you can't use "stuff you find on the Internet.

LETTER: President finalists arriving

Editor, The opportunity has come for the students of UNM to get a glimpse of our next president of the University of New Mexico. Beginning this week and during the following two weeks, the final five UNM presidential finalists will be on campus visiting our University.