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LETTER: UNM's deal with Pepsi is littered with contradictions
July 18I want to applaud Don Shapiro's stand against UNM becoming "corporate bed-partners" with Pepsi, published in the July 11 Daily Lobo. I would also like to add a few ironic twists that may not have been considered by some of your readers.
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LETTER: Letter sheds bright light on Shapiro's true colors
July 18Mr. Shapiro had a letter published complaining of how the Pepsi vending deal is disloyal to UNM vending employees as jobs are lost. I'm glad Mr. Shapiro enlightened me.
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COLUMN: On race, Jackson has no clout
July 18Of course there is, and has always been, racism in the recording industry. This is America, isn't it? In the early days of the 20th century, there was a popular record called "Pickaninny Paradise" instructing black youngsters how to be subservient to their white overlords and thus earn a place in heaven - or at least that section known as Pickaninny Paradise.
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LETTER: Pledge needs revamping
July 11Editor, Given the current flap over the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, I suggest we consider dumping it altogether. A far more appropriate pledge would be one to the Constitution, such as: “I pledge to read, understand, support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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LETTER: Worker loyalty needed
July 11Editor, I was saddened by your recent front-page story regarding the Pepsi vending deal and the consequential loss of UNM vending services jobs and some valued hard working folks. I have to agree with Terry Mulcahy in his letter to the editor on July 3 when he wonders “what UNM’s priorities are.
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EDITORIAL: MLB sells out again
July 11Marc Fisher of the Washington Post was right when he wrote that the big guys in America can walk all over us with a smile because they know that we — the little people — will take it. He was referring to the Major League Baseball All-Star game that was called quits because none of the team owners wanted to risk their pitchers’ arms with extra innings.
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COLUMN: War rhetoric insults intelligence
Sari Krosinski | July 11A certain pattern appears to have developed in the art of persuading Americans to war. It goes something like this: 1. Pick a target, presumably with some direct or indirect connection to some actual threat or transgression. 2. Paint that target — and all people who happen to live in its general vicinity — as the most evil, vile thing ever to walk the face of the planet.
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COLUMN: Students see ‘values’ differently
July 3by Douglas Turner Knight Ridder-Tribune WASHINGTON — The war on terrorism has not grabbed the hearts and minds of America’s college crowd, that is, if you accept the findings of a poll by a Republican pollster for a GOP-backed action group. One can infer from the survey that a large segment of collegians don’t hold the same passions for what are described as “American values” or “Western culture” that some important people here do.
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LETTER: Vouchers are cure to N.M.’s education ills
July 3Editor, The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled school vouchers constitutional. Now the state Legislature has no excuse for pouring more money into the pit that our public schools have become. Why is it that government is so willing to spend endless amounts of money on programs that no longer live up to expectation? It’s the same old mentality; if it’s broke, throw more money at it.
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LETTER: UNM tows corporate line with Pepsi vending deal
July 3Editor, Sometimes I wonder what UNM’s priorities are. I see tuition go up year after year, so I suspect that students are not the priority. Faculty is not given commensurate salaries, and the rest of the staff must fight like hell to be treated as equals.
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LETTER: Government not ideal model of employment
June 27I totally disagree with Brandon Curtis' thesis that businesses should be stripped "of their right to dismiss without cause and without notice and make them abide along the lines we expect the government to follow."
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COLUMN: Library staff ready to help
June 27We are living in the Information Age. Today's students have more information available to them than at any other time in history, yet how do they make sense of it all? How do they find the right information, and when they do, how do they evaluate it?
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COLUMN: Wanted: good ideas for defense
June 20I went to an anarchist conference in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. Aside from the tick nest incident, it was an OK weekend, complete with interesting and peculiar events.
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LETTER: Campus not adequate for wheelchair access
June 20I would like to express my gratitude for the help that I have been given from students and staff members at the University.
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LETTER: Business accountability a must in society today
June 20There is a relic of 19th century norms still in vogue in the 21st century, a norm that is outdated and in need of updating. That norm is the doctrine of "employment at will," which allows a company to dismiss employees "with or without cause and with or without notice."
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COLUMN: Web sites feed pro-life hatred
June 13Like any social/political crusade, the anti-abortion movement has spawned its extremist elements, some of whom are extreme indeed. Most dangerous among these, of course, are the very few who have assassinated "abortion providers." Second in line are those rancorous souls who welcome such behavior. Describing themselves as Christians, they publicize the names and addresses of physicians on Web sites and, when a doctor is killed, celebrate the murder by crossing out his or her name.
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COLUMN: National service a boon
June 13Why serve? John Bridgeland repeated the question with the ease of a preacher's refrain. He was preaching, and this was his choir. As director of President Bush's national service initiative, he was in Philadelphia on Friday to motivate and congratulate the thousands who had gathered for the annual convention of City Year, a service program for young people.
