I was very disappointed by an article in Tuesday's paper. The story covered last weekend's live performance of several bands at the Launchpad.
Next fall, the lives of every UNM student and employee will be affected by a bureaucratic error made in the office of the University Registrar. The entire fall semester will begin and end a week before it should.
It's about time that UNM's Physical Plant started enforcing federal laws regarding bicycles illegally locked to and preventing the use of handrails by those who are visually and physically challenged. Having said that let me also state that UNM's Physical Plant isn't doing its job.
Sadly, the United States is no longer a country run on ideals like freedom, human rights, and limited government. Instead it is a nation that hardly even notices each time a new form of government oppression is handed down from Washington. Once upon a time, political leaders here said things like "give me liberty or give me death!"
This letter is to comment on the March 5 Daily Lobo article "Physical Plant to begin enforcing bicycle lock rules."
Don Starr's letter to the editor on March 5 demonstrates the deep racial divide amongst the working class. As a white person who also grew up in a trailer park, I agree with Starr's call for assistance to poor whites.
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.
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