On Monday, we were reading the Daily Lobo Opinion page when we came upon the editorial written by Iliana Lim¢n addressing Amendment One. We were dismayed about what was written concerning ASUNM Senate not representing the majority of UNM students.
I am writing this letter in regards to Amendment One, in which our ASUNM student body government is hoping to add a small change to the funding system. While thinking about this change and the minor effects this will have on students, it occurred to me that the majority of students don't understand what the amendment is, much less the possibilities that this change can provide if approved.
It's the time of the year when chalk acronyms blight the sidewalks of UNM urging passing students to vote for some anonymous group of Senate candidates over another equally poorly known slate. Most of the chalking reduces down to a battle of which slate has the wittier initials - the SENERGY group has the edge in my opinion - whatever they stand for, and offers precious little information about any sort of agenda or position. I would conjecture that the single issue the majority of students know about the various slates is their position on whether to distribute candy when they harass people on Election Day.
While watching the proceedings of Hershe Krammer's trial last Friday, I just kept thinking, "Alexander Berkman."
I was walking around campus this week, and I ran into a member of the Senergy slate. It's refreshing to see a group taking action on their promises rather than simply empty promises.
I have read several letters in the Daily Lobo about Professor Cyrino's unique teaching style and manner of dress, and I have one question.
Money - everybody needs it but so few in New Mexico actually have it. Such is the case when it comes to dividing the miniscule pieces of pie that make up UNM's budget. With so little at stake, some faculty, staff and students don't even bother coming to the table anymore because they know it's just a tease.
Anger, sadness and shame of being an American overwhelmed me when I read Dr. Yaron Brook's letter in the Daily Lobo Tuesday. It was a brutal reminder of how many people here in America still believe that shoving a tank down someone's throat can "force" peace. Wasn't it Albert Einstein who once said, "Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding?"
There is a student on our campus who has fought to make the lives better - or at least cheaper - for students at UNM.
This is to all of you - including Richard Berthold - who are unable to declare the actions of the suicide bombers, such as blowing up Israeli teenagers in a disco, unequivocally wrong. You make it difficult for me to hold down my lunch. Please tell me to what level the Palestinians would have to stoop to earn your condemnation?
It is hard to remain true to ourselves when we live with so many inexplicable contradictions. Below is the beginning of an endless list of contradictions that we see, hear, taste and feel daily but are not always conscious of or feel comfortable discussing.
Ariel Sharon is using his declaration of war against terrorism as a ruse for Israel's ongoing brutal occupation of the Palestinian people, now in its 35th year. Under the occupation, millions of Palestinians have been subjected to daily humiliations and a complete and total negation of their rights as a people. One can only wonder what kind of an impact this has on a child's psyche who only knows life under occupation.
I read the Daily Lobo article "Students question forced resignation" on Professor Monica Cyrino, and I must say I found it terribly misleading and outrageous. Your reporter did not take the time to interview more than one graduate student from Foreign Languages and Literature, nor did he take into account those who work directly with Professor Cyrino in the department.
Please, one last word on reparations for slavery and David Horowitz. For the past three years or so, as a researcher, I've followed this controversial and often heated issue. Across the nation, most white Americans are vehemently against reparations of any sort.
The University libraries are in the process of measuring the effectiveness of service to the UNM community. Monday, April 8, we will be sending out an electronic survey, LIBQUAL+, to a sample of students and faculty. We encourage those of you who receive it to spend 10-15 minutes of your time to help us identify how well you think the libraries meet your expectations of service.
"Terrorism" is the new buzzword, replacing the now obsolete "communism" as the stock term used by politicians and other ignorant people to justify the support of repression and sundry dictators. But it is a very slippery word. What exactly is terrorism and who is a terrorist? That is not at all clear, and it is apparently in the political interests of many that it remain so.
As Senators of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico we would like to express our opinion regarding Amendment 1, which will be on the ballot for the spring 2002 elections.
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