I can empathize with the frustration expressed by Ann Bieberdorf in the Jan. 25 Daily Lobo with regard to buying and selling textbooks at the UNM Bookstore.
It would behoove Chris Welch to take a course in logic since his argument in Tuesday's edition of the Daily Lobo is full of holes. According to him, the only people who are concerned about the collapse of Enron, and its criminal practices, are liberals.
I feel compelled to write and thank the editor for her well-stated editorial on the Super Bowl.
Monday, the Bush administration released its proposal for NASA's 2003 budget. This budget stresses developing nuclear power and propulsion systems. Most unmanned planetary and scientific probe programs will be getting budget increases, but space station Alpha and the space shuttle program will have their funds cut dramatically. Also completely deleted from the budget are planned Europa and Pluto missions.
Why is it that the same champions of liberalism that espouse their disdain and abhorrence for racial profiling in any situation, including trying to prevent terrorism, crow about the fact that the Bush administration won't give up any information on their meetings with Enron officials?
I am responding to Laura Valdez and her shameful outlook on society. Her commentary in the Jan. 31 edition of the Daily Lobo was nothing more than printed bitching. Her conclusions made no sense. They reflect how institutionalized people have become in facing life and its many challenges. It's much easier to blame society and other people for their problems instead of blaming themselves.
February first marked the beginning of the month-long observance of Black History Month, another one of those "awareness months" during which we are supposed take special time to educate others and ourselves about the black narrative in the United States.
Despite being a sports fan, Sunday wasn't all that super for me.
This endless increasing of property taxes has simply got to stop in this city. Every year we are asked to bail out Albuquerque Public Schools and its latest crisis. Voters have historically voted in favor of raising their property taxes to satisfy the needs of APS to equip classrooms with better equipment and fix older buildings, yet every year we hear that the problems still are not being fixed.
I called a friend in New York City Sunday afternoon to find out if anyone I knew got arrested or beaten at the World Economic Forum protest this past weekend. Thankfully, he was home getting ready for the Super Bowl, and everyone was fine.
For those who are critical of America's involvement in the Middle East, I would like to pose two simple questions.
When the Air Jordan made its debut in 1985 at an astounding $85, the general population was hesitant to accept such a price for top end athletic shoes. Seventeen years later, it is assumed that quality basketball shoes will retail at $150, regardless of which shoe company produces it.
Ever since the horrific acts of Sept. 11, it has been interesting to listen to people, especially young people's views on what is going on. It is quite unique and refreshing when students engage in necessary dialogue that does not simply regurgitate what reporters say or what they hear on shows such as "Hardball," which reduce conversation into an entertainment of whether the guests are ridiculed.
I have received several work orders this semester about little "worms" in kitchen cabinets. These are not worms or maggots; they are the larval stage of either a moth or a beetle, from a group collectively known as stored-product pests.
In his State of the Union Address Tuesday, President Bush laid down the future of U.S. foreign policy, its virtue, and its justification: "We've come to know truths that we will never question: Evil is real, and it must be opposed."
The article in Tuesday's Daily Lobo by Jason Gil Bear stated that "20 percent of college women who suffer from an eating disorder die before the age of 25."
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