The death of a monkey recently made headlines around the world. He was part of what was originally touted to be a promising vaccine trial for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, carried out by Harvard researchers.
In any public endeavor, there is the ideal, and then there is the reality.
A couple of weeks ago I discovered that the new Michael "Air" Jordan basketball shoes will cost $200 for those interested in buying them. Two hundred dollars! For a pair of shoes? What the hell is wrong with Mr. Jordan? I can understand why Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike, would sell a pair of sneakers for such an outrageous price, but what I don't understand is why Mike would endorse such an overpricing.
I would like to respond to Mr. Hammar's plea in a letter to the editor in Tuesday's Daily Lobo that John Walker be given a "fair" trial by the United Nations.
As the chaotic destruction of Enron continues to drop new fallout on the business and political scene, new questions are arising as to the relationship that should exist between energy companies and the government. The United States isn't the only country to feel the blow of Enron's fall; the United Kingdom's recently deregulated energy market is reeling from the blow amid similar accusations of government collaboration.
It has come to my attention that an American named John Walker Lindh, who had volunteered to serve with the Taliban, will face trial. I would like to state that this trial is totally unfair and that this young man is a victim of political persecution.
This weekend news was released that President Bush is considering cutting ties with Yassir Arafat's Palestinian Authority in an effort to punish the terrorist turned corrupt despot for months of terror unleashed on Israel and for the recent interdiction of a ship with a sizable cache of weapons. This action is long in coming and most deserved.
I would like to ask all UNM Faculty, students and staff who vote locally to please consider voting yes for the APS School Improvement Bond and Mill Levy on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
While we here in New Mexico ease into the new legislative season, students at Queen's University in Ontario are mired in a tuition fight that's been in progress for several months. With demands to freeze tuition and drop a proposal to deregulate tuition, several dozen of these students occupied an office suite in their administration building from Jan. 15 until Jan. 18.
Like most students, I was shocked to see that Lobo point guard Marlon Parmer had quit the men's basketball team. But I was even more shocked to see the way coach Fran Fraschilla was harshly criticized through the media.
As much has been made about UNM Professor Richard Berthold, it pales in comparison to the controversy that has rocked the University of South Florida.
In the third week of New Mexico's Legislative session, it is time for UNM staff members to step up to the plate and bring heat to their legislators and the governor. If education employees do not receive a salary raise this session, in view of the projected health insurance, parking fees and cost of living increases, UNM staff will in effect experience a pay cut.
Since Sept. 11, I have been watching the developments within President Bush's administration first with caution, then with frustration and now with fear.
The UNM Bookstore is a monopoly. Here it is, the second week of school, and I'm still without my most important textbook. The teacher is assigning readings and we're having discussions, but I am silent through the class time. The book has been sold out for a week now, and the reorder shipment is "pending" the bookstore says. Pending what?
I was extremely upset when I heard Marlon Parmer was quitting the Lobo basketball team. Parmer and the coach have been bumping heads a lot this season, but it hasn't just been Parmer and coach Fran Fraschilla.
I don't see how people can be saying it was Marlon Parmer's fault when he quit the team over verbal abuse. I played basketball at a school and quit because the coach was verbally abusive and that made my teammates turn physically abusive on the court.
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