Opinion

LETTER: Scholarship funds in need of new direction

Editor, We read with interest your Oct. 1 story regarding the N.M. Commission of Higher Education study that purports to rebut our research findings. Our research, which was published as part of the Harvard study on merit-based programs like New Mexico's lottery scholarship, shows that the rate at which New Mexico high school graduates enroll in college has not been altered by the lottery scholarship.

COLUMN: Bush ignores critical questions

by John J. Schulz and Ehsan Ahrari Knight Ridder-Tribune BOSTON - As every graduate of the U.S. armed forces command and staff schools or the more advanced and selective war colleges knows: It is easy to get into wars, and darn hard to end them.

COLUMN: Birth not limited to hospitals

by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo columnist Pregnant? Thinking about having a baby in the near or distant future? Well, then I have some shocking - or not so shocking - news for you. You don't have to give birth in a hospital. Around these parts, home birth isn't so much of a foreign phenomenon.

LETTER: N.M. drivers regard turn signals optional

Editor, To respond to the editorial regarding driving habits in New Mexico. Yes, we have the worst drivers around. I often joke with my friends that car companies should make the "New Mexico" model of cars: All models shipped to New Mexico will not include turn signals since drivers don't use them.

Editorial Cartoon

COLUMN: MTV to tackle sex-ed

by Jane Eisner Knight Ridder-Tribune On Thursday evening, MTV will depart from its usual fare of grinding music videos and shrieking, bare-bellied teenagers to present a half-hour news special tackling the issue of sexual education in the schools.

EDITORIAL: Drivers in N.M. are some of U.S.' worst

We have bad drivers in New Mexico? No way. The Albuquerque Journal did an interesting piece asking people for their opinions on how they feel about New Mexico drivers and the responses were for the most part honest. New Mexico drivers are some of the worst in the country.

SWFC one of ASUNM's gems

by Jennifer Onuska Daily Lobo Columnist Let the show begin! How do you, as college students, prefer to spend your free time? For me, a good movie is a great way to unwind and relieve stress from a busy schedule, class, and day. As a mainstream form of entertainment, going to the movies is a great way to spend your free time.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

LETTER: Yeagley's presentation is distorted in Lobo article

Editor, A journalist is sometimes like a good scrabble player. The ideas for an article, like individual letters for words, can be arranged in different order and the message of the article can read different ways, just like the same letters can spell entirely different words.

We cannot back unjust bloodshed

by Eliot Walker Daily Collegian U-Wire "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism." So said Martin Luther King Jr.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

LETTER: Many New Mexicans lack health insurance

Editor, We would like to applaud Mayor Chavez for declaring the first week in October as Universal Health Care Awareness Week and recognizing that all New Mexicans deserve healthcare. One in four New Mexicans does not have health insurance, according to the most recent census count.

COLUMN: Broadcast media misuse sound bites in newscasts

by Greg Holmquist University Daily Kansan U-Wire Sound bites are truly American. Only in America could debates take, as their starting point, quotes that are all too often out of context, and downright misleading. One fan of the sound bite that everyone should know is the Fox News Channel.

COLUMN: File sharing a new statement

by Sarah Beetham Daily Targum U-Wire A long time ago, before any of us were born, back when rock and roll was just getting started and our parents were teenagers, a dollar was the standard price for an LP. Now, decades later, that same music - and the new music of today - is packaged and marketed on CDs that are much more expensive by a very small number of powerful corporations.

COLUMN: Bush looks at the wrong issues

by Eric Howerton Daily Lobo Columnist George W. Bush is obviously confused as to what the international role of the United States really is. Rather than epitomizing Freud's questionable Thanatos - the death instinct, whose validity Freud seriously doubted after directly experiencing WWI - by demanding wars and impetuous missions that will cause unnecessary deaths, shouldn't Bush, as our questionably elected public spokesman, focus more on controlling our borders and maintaining peaceful relations with our neighbors, encouraging peaceful international relations? He should at least address the economy.

COLUMN: OEO acts as modern day UNM inquisition

by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist Lost amidst the furor stirred up by my intemperate remark last fall was the fact that I was at the same time charged by a female in my Western Civilization with "creating a hostile classroom environment.

Editorial Cartoon

COLUMN: Teeny bopper magazine all style, lacks substance

by Aubrey Henretty U-Wire Are you a cool girlfriend? Are you a diva? Are you college material? In a stunning display of hot colors, cool fonts and hard-hitting journalism, the October issue of Seventeen magazine asks its readership all three of these tough questions.

Punish parents for carelessness

by Rachel Richmond U-Wire If there is one thing I cannot stand in this world, it is crazy parents. I'm not talking about your run-of-the-mill, off-the-wall parents; I'm talking about the crazies. As in, the irresponsible, stupid, selfish and just plain mean parents.