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.
The irony of today is as succulent as a cactus, whose spines sting us so hard even the next generation will feel it. With the Ashcrofts and Enrons of the world, we are encouraged to turn our backs and hide our faces in the sand. We promote progress as creating multi-national companies but not criticizing the driving mentality that puts profit over people, except for the CEOs such as Enron's Kenneth Lay.
Did I miss something or did UNM head basketball coach Fran Fraschilla's insensitive, un-American comments during the Air Force game slip through the cracks?
Ever hear someone loudly call out, "Hey," behind you for no apparent reason? You turn around to see what all the noise is about, only to discover that the person is alone and can only be talking to his or herself. Your initial impression is that this person must be cracked.
Oh the savage wars of peace rage on! Evil is being routed out of caves, jungles and refugee camps. Each day, the United States sends more arms and technical support to governments dealing with rebel insurgencies, primarily those of the Islamic branch. With the latest in anti-terror technology, the ringleaders of badness are being pinpointed, apprehended and terminated. It would seem that any day now, the evil must run out.
Where's Al Gore? I've taken a lot of heat from liberal friends about my decision to vote for Ralph Nader rather than Al Gore in the last election.
May God and the state Legislature save us from Richard Fagerlund and others like him. To his mind, not passing drug reform this legislative session is impractical at least, for ignoring a widespread habit of drug use in our state, and immoral at worst, for denying care to those whose suffering is extended by lack of legal access to marijuana.
This weekend saw the beginnings of what I believe will be the biggest non-story regarding our continued actions against global terror. I am referring to the outrage being expressed by human rights oriented non-governmental organizations over the treatment of the 144 al Qaeda prisoners being held at the United States' Guantanamo Bay naval base.
I would like to bring a matter to your attention. Lost in the discussion of racial profiling is another potentially egregious form of harassment being perpetrated on a subset of our citizenry based on miniscule differences in physical appearance. Namely, those of us who choose to wear beards, goatees, mustaches, foo-man choos, lambchops and various other facial hair patterns may be at risk of being harassed by authority types threatened by perceived rebelliousness.
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