As a student at UNM and an intern at New Mexico's chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, the political arm of the pro-choice movement, I am writing to encourage students and faculty to protest the anti-choice exhibit that will be on campus from Feb. 18-21.
When I finished reading Richard Berthold's Feb. 14 column titled "Government Wields Real Terror," I honestly didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The past and coming weeks are rife with matters of peculiar public display.
It's interesting that the Daily Lobo columnist Craig E. Butler opened his recent column with the supposed intention of answering why the existence of NAFTA and the World Trade Organization causes street battles between activists and police. What makes this interesting is that Butler never makes even the slightest attempt to answer the question that he poses. To merely say that globalization's "approach" is "stepping on a lot of sensitive toes" is hardly an answer.
The Dean of Students Office is advising the campus community and campus visitors that Justice for All, Inc., an anti-abortion organization, will have a free-speech photographic exhibit that includes graphic photographs at three locations on the UNM campus. One Feb. 18 and 19, the exhibit will be north of Ortega Hall along the wooden fence. On Feb. 20 and 21, the exhibit will be east of Popejoy on Cornell Mall. The exhibit also will be at the Health Sciences Center Plaza on UNM's north campus Feb. 21.
We can learn a lot about how society functions and sustains itself by knowing how it treats its younger generations. There are many old sayings about society's responsibility towards children and their future. With the Brad Allison fiasco and the recent voting not to raise taxes to build newer schools, these sayings could not be more appropriate and valuable than today.
President Bush informed us of our new creed: "Let's roll." Here in the United States this may seem ambiguous, leaving the ravers and marijuana smokers to reconsider their political mascot, bad joke; considering the escalated war on drugs. But beyond our borders, political leaders may have a better idea.
Well, UNM men's basketball team, you did it. I did not think it was possible, but you did it. You have successfully accomplished what no other team in the past 20 years has from my standpoint.
In one of their legendary songs, the Beastie Boys summed up what a fair portion of college life is all about: "You've got to fight, for your right, to party."
It has been observed that America is a strange imperial power: one whose citizens care little and know even less about what goes on beyond their shores. This has created a dangerous situation in which the American people, as individuals typically generous and sensitive to the suffering of others, are easily led down unattractive paths by politicians who are far less generous and sensitive.
While the United States generally ignores the opinions of the developing countries, the fact that some of its European allies have questioned its foreign policy should serve as a wake-up call.
FBI statistics say that 80 percent of all gang rapes that occur in the United States happen in fraternities. An anthropological case study of Greek life by Peggy Reeves Sanday, "Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus" concludes that sororities are often complicit in the cover-up and sometimes even the set-up of rape cases in fraternity houses.
Your editorial in Monday's newspaper contained glaring errors:
Globalization. It's a word we hear thrown around a lot these days, usually in conjunction with words such as "protest," "evil" and "corporations." But what is it, really? What are the WTO and NAFTA, and why exactly does their existence cause street battles between activists and police?
So you think Enron had a great scam going? Imagine a world where you start the year making a wish list of all the things you want to buy and spend money on. Now imagine getting to do all the things you want to do and buying all the stuff you want.
As one might expect, the part of president Bush's State of the Union Address that has garnered the most attention and protest is the characterization of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." These individual nations protested by calling the United States a variety of names and many traditionally friendly nations also disapproved of the classification. In the United States, Clinton administration officials and other experts derided the remark as "delinquent" or "ill-advised," and I am sure that there are many here on campus that believed it to be straight-up warmongering aggressiveness.
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