President Bush's recent meeting with Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan comes at a time when Saudi-American relations are at their most crucial. At stake is the future of the entire Middle East and dire consequences for the world.
It scares the hell out of me that we have an administration in charge of our country that can't contain its excitement about going to war. Our leaders' reasoning seems questionable, hypocritical and deceitful at best.
Editor, I would like to point out a Sunday morning comment about our president's absence at the United Nation's Global Conference on Sustainable Development. The conference is dedicated to the environment and world poverty. "Although his father attended Rio 10 years ago, U.
by Jessica Velez U-Wire AUSTIN, Texas - Recently, the American Medical Association asked The Princeton Review to eliminate their "Party Schools" list from the Best College series, to the chagrin of many new alumni. Not only did this list provide an easy reference for worried parents (now why did Johnny choose that school?), but it also showed prospective students at which universities one could find both an education and a social life.
by Angela Ledford Knight Ridder-Tribune The rash of ozone alerts in major cities this summer drives home the realization that air pollution directly affects enormous numbers of us every day, especially children and the elderly. Typically, on code red days we're told to drive less, not use gasoline-powered lawnmowers, and wait it out indoors.
by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo Columnist Picture this: A narrow pass through the mountains. Inside, four to five thousand Hellenes, armed with heavy, unwieldy bronze shields and eight foot spears. Outside, tens upon tens of thousands of soldiers from all corners of the Persian empire, with a wide assortment of light-weight armaments and enough arrows to cause a solar eclipse.
Editor, Taking a stroll out on the Health Sciences Center Plaza last Thursday afternoon, one could see a multitude of health sciences representatives promoting their departments with free literature and health-related information. Adjacent to them you would have seen handouts of a completely different kind - plate upon plate of free, processed food given out as part of Welcome Back Days on North Campus.
by Jennifer Onuska Daily Lobo Columnist At this point in the year everyone has found their classes, everyone has bought their books and everyone has eaten at the Frontier several times to service the craving that they missed over the summer. With all of that said and done, we now have 15 weeks to go in the semester and many decisions to make on how we want to spend our time.
Editor, Morality (the quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct, according to American Heritage Dictionary) cannot be legislated. However, citizens and legislators of fortitude could stop immoral acts by calling it so. Buddha, in his younger days, saw pain and suffering outside his palace walls.
Angela Williams sounds as though she has not been keeping up with current events or simply has a hidden agenda. First of all, our "plunging stock market" has actually been on the rise in the last two weeks and more so in recent days. I'll admit the pending baseball strike is troubling, but they are not yet striking as Williams infers, only a date has been set, and a new proposal looks like it may settle the issue before a work stoppage occurs.
Everyone makes fun of Sally Field for her joyous exclamation at the Academy Awards - "You like me! You really like me!" - but she was only demonstrating how American she is. Americans tend to have a high opinion of their country - American exceptionalism is the scholarly term - and are taken aback when confronted with beliefs to the contrary.
As a philosophy major I strive not to have any vices nor obsessive tendencies for the betterment of my existence.
by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist Bill Gordon is gone now, off to be provost and no doubt soon president of Wake Forest University. He was probably the best we could do: unlike most he was a long-time faculty member at UNM and appeared to have some genuine concern for students and faculty (though most of the innovations in undergraduate teaching should be credited to University College dean Peter White.
It's been a very disturbing year. Perhaps every year is eerie and strange in its way, but the events from the end of 2001 straight through 2002 have affected this country's mindset in new and troubling ways. The obvious, of course, is Sept. 11, and as the anniversary looms ever closer the memory of that day rings louder and louder.
by Gordon S. Clark Knight Ridder-Tribune The hard-line hawks in the Bush administration are pushing for a "regime change" in Iraq and preparing for war. But the consequences of a U.S. attack on Iraq range from troubling to potentially catastrophic.
I am an over 50-year old grad student, and if memory serves me, the women of my generation worked hard and paid dearly for the opportunity to express ourselves in whatever manner we felt appropriate - whether it be to dance at TD's or to be an opponent of the very concept of their advertising in a university newspaper.
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