I have always been supportive of preserving our environment. I do empathize with what will happen to the arctic wildlife community if we start drilling, but to help our foreign efforts in the Middle East, we should not always be at the mercy of oil producing nations.
The Daily Lobo's article concerning the UNM Ultimate Frisbee Club's Green Chili Festival was not only lacking in integrity, but also completely insulting to many of the best athletes in the Southwest.
Congresswoman Heather Wilson, a Republican in the 1st Congressional District, made the news this week calling for the reinstatement of the charter of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service.
As I was reading Ricky Lee Allen's letter to the editor on March 4, I was deeply offended at the generalizations he made about different races. Allen assumes only people of color know the effects of poverty. I grew up here in Albuquerque in a trailer park where I shared a fold out couch in the living room with my older brother for a bed; the other two rooms were for my sister and parents.
I am writing in response to the article appearing in the Daily Lobo on March 4 concerning the UNM ultimate Frisbee team. I am a strong supporter of UNM Frisbee, and I was at their tournament this weekend. I did not enjoy, nor did I appreciate the content of this article.
So the College Republicans held a bake sale to spark debate on affirmative action. And I'm falling right into their trap.
Rather than spending my time talking about the white supremacist logic of the so-called "Affirmative Action Bakesale," I want to talk about how the young Republicans seem to know very little about the real price of cookies.
When the final buzzer sounded on the last game ever to be played in Cole Field House at the University of Maryland Sunday, New Mexicans thousands of miles away should have noted the end of an era.
The word on the White House lawn is that we are about to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Words such as "oil drilling" are pretty common around that lawn I would imagine, since many of those walking around are some of the largest oil investors and businessmen, from Bush to Enron's Kenneth Lay to Al Gore. It would be nice to finally have some new, refreshing words for once.
Wow! How deceivingly simple this issue really is! Thanks to the College Republicans for dumbing down this complex situation so I can understand it. It's a sin to think that a borderline white kid, struggling on the cusp of admission into a major university is denied admission because that spot is reserved for a minority of lesser quality! Could you say to that tearful white boy, "Johnny, you almost got in but the government says we have to let in some inferior Hispanics, Indians and Blacks who didn't do as well as you?"
What a breath of fresh air to read "Cracking Academia's Code" by Professor Richard Berthold.
I find it ironic that Sarah Hunt would sell "quota cookies" as the racial reflection of affirmative action, yet did not include in the mix a cookie representation of the group which has benefited the most from affirmative action in the past 31 years: white women.
Some Americans worry that too many non-European minorities are immigrating to the United States and that those immigrants are changing the fabric of the country. The reality is that American culture is so prominent that most of the world is adapting American characteristics, and that most "minorities" quickly assimilate.
As a half-breed, Mexican/White mix, I have a perplexing problem with regards to the "quota cookies" booth. Do I claim to be Mexican and buy my cookie for 25 cents or do I own up to my whiteness and pay $1.50 for the same cookie? Or, should I pay $1.75, because I am both a Mexican and white male? Or, should there be another price created for me since I belong to a different category than is listed on the price sheet?
You may have noticed that in their public pronouncements, University administrators frequently sound like politicians, attorneys or government spokesmen. Indeed they do, because like these other groups they often need to avoid speaking the truth because it might be embarrassing. They are, however, generally loath simply to lie, so instead a sort of coded speech is used.
I support all the UNM bus drivers. I support Bobby, Anna and Jerry. They have a difficult job dealing with 50 to 60 students rushing the bus at once in the hopes of getting to class on time. The drivers do an excellent job picking up as many students as they can without breaking the rules.
One word came to mind while reading the Daily Lobo's story titled "Riders voice bus safety concerns" - whining.
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