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LETTER: Parmer will be missed

The semester is coming to an end, but Marlon Parmer's career as a Lobo ended several months ago. Marlon gave UNM two wonderful years, and he was an asset to the team. I enjoyed his explosiveness, versatility, and quickness. I believe Marlon will be productive on any team he plays for. I wish him the best in his future.

LETTER: Corporations not chaste

Editor, Mr. Carrasco, I don't think that it's so much a situation of innocent nÑive corporations gleefully working their day away to get money while people hurl accusations of vast control. I think what scares people a lot of times is the legal power (or perhaps immunity and abuse thereof) that corporations have.

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COLUMN: The accidental revolutionary

It's true: one person really can change the world. This is the story of how one person started the 1989 revolution in Romania.

EDITORIAL: Plea for "Dead Week"

Finals have fallen upon us and again a common question has arisen from perplexed students: Why doesn't UNM have a "Dead Week?"

LETTER: Land grant article has errors

I was very glad that the Daily Lobo published an article on the oral presentation I gave on April 24 as part of the Dolores Gonzales Colloquy Series sponsored by the Raza Graduate Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Association at UNM.

LETTER: Victim's rights as important as assailant's

A few days ago there was a letter to the editor complaining that the Daily Lobo and UNM Police don't do enough to keep people informed about crimes that take place on campus. Case-in-point was a woman who was brutalized in her dorm room while her roommate looked on. It took a letter to the editor to bring light to that case.

COLUMN: UNM overreacts to alcohol use

Americans, or at least American public officials, seemingly cannot think rationally when it comes to drugs, including legal ones like alcohol.

COLUMN: Conspiracy claims irrational

Oil company executives are testifying for a Senate subcommittee this week answering allegations that price fixing is to blame for recent increases in the price of gasoline. Accusations of this sort are not new. There were charges of price gouging during the 2000 election that were very quietly dismissed after investigation. However, that these hearings are even going on is representative of an interesting and disconcerting group of people in the American political discourse that, for a lack of a better term, I will call conspiracists.

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LETTER: N.M. residents can still vote in election

Have you voted yet? If not, you still can. Absentee/early voting for the 2002 New Mexico Primary Election began on April 25 and runs until the Primary Election Day on June 4. Now is the time to exercise your right to vote as an American citizen and make an impact on who the next governor of New Mexico will be. The governor appoints the Board of Regents, which governs the University.

LETTER: Remember Sigma Chi's contributions to UNM

As members of the Greek system we would just like to express our disgust with some of the students and faculty on this campus. For the last week we have been reading about Sigma Chi's charter being revoked. Yes, this happened; however, most do not know the exact circumstances behind this decision. Nor do they understand the impact that this has on the Greek system and the UNM community as a whole.

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LETTER: Arab-Israeli conflict stems from larger biblical issues

Secular-minded people who want to consider the Arab-Israeli conflict separate from spiritual issues will continue to be confused and confounded, and most often mistaken.

LETTER: Leave frat woes alone

I am not a member of Sigma Chi or any other fraternity. I really don't care one way or another which fraternities keep charters at UNM and which ones don't.

COLUMN: Laws don't stop carnage

Europe is reeling from the shock of its first American-style school massacre. The carnage in Erfurt defies imaginations in the European Union, where violent crime is nowhere near the daily occurrence we experience in the United States.

LETTER: Fraternity troubles affect all

I am writing as a response to the letters of the past week concerning the Greek system at UNM, specifically allegations of wrong doing at Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

LETTER: Students' concerns second

Many people have begun complaining about the raise in tuition and higher rates on everything housing-related. I, myself, have complained even about the fact that I am receiving less financial aid - despite the fact that I'm in debt due to the small amount I received this year.

LETTER: Sigma Chi Charter loss improves UNM

Since I am the one that called the dean on Sigma Chi, I would like the opportunity to say a few words to Jason Caldwell and the rest of his "brotherhood."