As I read the "apology" from the Connection slate in the paper today, I have only one question. Who do they think they are kidding?
As I read through the letters in the Nov. 15 edition of the Daily Lobo, I was very surprised to see that there were complaints about the cover photo in Wednesday's edition.
Do you remember Sept. 12? If you picked up a copy of the Daily Lobo, on the cover you saw an oversized photo showing the World Trade Center exploding. Inside, another photo showed people clutching to window sills, waiting for a rescue that wasn't coming. Pretty gruesome, eh?
The Nov. 14 Daily Lobo was packed full of diatribes about how ASUNM sucks and how the Daily Lobo sucks. The fact is that they both suck a little. What I take issue with is a column that entirely mispresents what actually happens on campus. Jesse Mu§iz's column did just that.
The letter from the Connection that was printed on Nov. 16 was nearly as transparent as my dorm room window. It disappoints me, as a current ASUNM senator, to read a letter riddled with false claims of ignorance, and written with the pen of fellow Senators Evan Kist and Nicole Griego.
One question we never ask is, "Who is making all these military arms?" With the 20th century being riddled with wars such as World Wars I and II, Vietnam and years of massacres in El Salvador and Guatemala, not to mention starting a new century with yet another war, you would think this question would be paramount. But, when we finally ask this question there is, of course, no reply. There are just echoes of your voice that get muffled over with the sounds of PlayStation videogames.
I am writing this letter in response to a situation, in particular, that does prove and exemplifies the "corrupt and biased" politics of ASUNM.
We, the members of the Connection slate, wish to apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused during the election on Nov. 14.
No one likes to wake up to pictures as gruesome as the one that ran on the front-page of the Daily Lobo Wednesday. I responded to numerous callers who admonished me for running such a graphic photograph in the student newspaper. Many said they shouldn't be forced to look at such graphic images when picking up the newspaper.
No doubt the front-page picture on Wednesday shocked everyone. Afghan rebels shooting a Taliban soldier. It made people look closer to put the facts together.
It seems obvious to me that our great American traditions and values are being thrown out the window by the leftist community, which dominates campus life and politics from the classroom to the street.
I was appalled at the juxtaposition of photograph and caption that appeared on your front page this morning. I would like to suggest a correction to the caption, which clearly did not accurately reflect the events in the picture.
Monday's Daily Lobo exemplifies why those members of the ASUNM Senate who seek to defund the student newspaper should be ashamed of themselves.
There are obviously people at this University who are for war, against war and somewhere in between justice and revenge. The cover story of Wednesday's Daily Lobo was not only disturbing, but also disgustingly offensive.
I never dreamt I would say it, but I guess I just gave ASUNM too much credit.
Hey buddy, can you spare $554,000? That is what the senators of Associated Students of UNM are asking students for today, and I would gladly give it to them.
Since you have made the effort to look at the Daily Lobo's opinion page, please don't stop here. You obviously care about what's going on around you
I doubt, as some critics have voiced, that the members of the ASUNM Senate - and this is in regard to distributing funds - are partial to student organizations. When deciding how funds should be distributed, senate members have UNM's best interest in mind.
This year ASUNM has done an outstanding job serving over 21,000 undergraduate students. It is extremely interesting that the editor of the Daily Lobo would refute this claim, due to the fact that the Daily Lobo reports on and is informed about all of ASUNM's events or services that are provided to students.
Today my fellow UNM students, we embark on an important journey. Alright, maybe its not that important, but today's ASUNM election does have some significance.
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