Editor, While I find the editorial debates surrounding Chicana/o Studies intriguing, at the same time I find them quite disturbing. In the past week, both Chicana/o and non-Chicana/o students, alumni and community members have exerted pressures on the University to rework the internal and external faults of Chicana/o Studies and the University's responsibility to Chicana/o students.
I eat meat. I love stripping meat from rib bones with my bare hands as I pay homage to my australopithecine ancestors by boycotting cutlery. I love sushi, stuffing myself full of salmon sashimi and unagi until I look like a fully inflated blowfish. And I occasionally love a rubbery seven-cow composite frankfurter stuffed in a pasty white bun and slathered with gelatinous canned chili.
Editor, I've been reading and hearing a lot lately about fear. Americans, we are told, should be afraid of another terrorist attack. Britons, the media say, should be afraid of a similar attack. The Koreans are afraid of an American pre-emptive strike. The Israelis are afraid of a film about the Jenin refugee camp and have banned it.
by Shant Minas Daily Trojan (U. Southern California) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Turkey is a large country situated at the crossroads of two continents, two religions and two civilizations. The northwest tip of Turkey sits in Europe, a continent predominantly Christian and the birthplace of Western culture.
Staff Editorial Northern Star (Northern Illinois U.) (U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. -- The flaming car crash that is Michael Jackson maintains its steady share of gapers. Last week, millions of Americans blocked traffic in front of their televisions to watch the eternal flames reach unprecedented heights in the documentary "Life With Michael Jackson.
Editor, On Feb. 13 and 14, Los Alamos National Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories, along with the U.S. Department of Energy -- the department that employs its services as producers of weapons of mass destruction -- will be actively recruiting students at a job fair at UNM.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Cockfighting in New Mexico is alive and well. Cockfighting died in committee so we are stuck with this so-called sport for another year at least unless a miracle happens. Five members of the senate committee decided that animal cruelty in New Mexico is alive and well and we should continue it because it is a "tradition.
by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo columnist Shocking as it may seem, I actually agreed with Scott Darnell's column last Friday -- up to a point. I agree that it's really yucky when people condemn other people for holding a particular set of beliefs, or declare that anyone belonging to a certain race or ethnicity is required to hold a certain set of beliefs.
Editor, I am thankful that I was born in today's historical epoch than any other. This is because our American society is finally making great leaps toward the "Promised Land" that Dr. King once dreamed of. In many ways we are about to say goodbye to the ways of the past in which we discriminated against others because of the color of their skin.
Editor, Thank you for giving the issue of pedestrian fatalities front-page coverage. After five years of crossing the intersections you mention, my inference is that fatalities could not result mainly from pedestrians crossing illegally. Let us focus instead on driver behavior.
Editor, In light of the fact that our economy is struggling, unemployment is down and the fate of Social Security and Medicaid is uncertain, those 'persons' from the government who are here to help us have come up with a solution. They're going to increase nuclear spending back to the levels of its greatest height back in the Cold War hey days of the 1980s.
Editor, Thursday, as I was walking back to my dorm room from class, I stumbled on a group walking by the Duck Pond. They were of Hispanic descent and all were carrying cardboard signs. As I passed by, I happened to look at one of the signs. On it was the phrase "White isn't right.
Editor, I am writing to inform you and the readers what is going on with the Chicano Studies program. The program is one of the poorest funded and supported programs at UNM. Chicano Studies barely survives on a $100,000 yearly budget and a generous donation of $100,000 (which unfortunately might not be available next year) from Dr.
Editor, I commend those students that came out Thursday, in protest of Dean White's and University College's mishandling of Chicano Studies. As I myself witnessed a poorly attended public presentation by the one and only candidate for the position of director of Chicano Studies and, more recently, a well-attended student demonstration at Chicano Studies, I thought it would be appropriate to share with the entire UNM community the same concerns I have already expressed to Peter White, the dean of University College, and to the steering committee.
Editor, As of late, I have noticed the same tired mantra being repeated over and over again by the anti-war crowd: "No blood for oil." I felt it to be my duty as a fairly well informed American citizen to clear up a few myths/misunderstandings about the issue that is the war on Iraq.
by Heather R. Gabel ASUNM Vice President To begin, I would like to take this opportunity to ask for your opinion as students of the University of New Mexico. It has been proposed to the Student Fee Review Board that there be a $25 increase in Student Fee's next year.
Editor, Reading the Daily Lobo on Wednesday, Feb. 5, I was reminded of an old clichÇ: guys with expensive sports cars are trying to compensate for a lack somewhere, hrm . . . below the belt. The first article to catch my attention was the news brief about the plans to build the tallest building on earth at the ground zero WTC sight.
Editor, Last week, you printed an article by Keith Hudson titled "U.S. Must Take Action." In it Mr. Hudson accused Saddam Hussein of invading Iran for oil, killing innocent people and bullying other countries. All of these accusations are true. Hussein invaded Iran in the '80s.
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