LETTER: Slate apologizes
November 16We, the members of the Connection slate, wish to apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused during the election on Nov. 14.
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.
I am writing in response to three letters that appeared in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, the first being ASUNM Vice President Steve Aguilar Jr. His assessment of ASUNM funding is 100 percent correct. In 1999-2000, I served as the attorney general for ASUNM.
As a proud advertiser of the Daily Lobo, I was disheartened to hear that the ASUNM Senate wants to, once again, cut back on funding to one of UNM's finest creations - its daily newspaper.
I want to address the inaccurate remarks made by Iliana Lim¢n against the ASUNM Senate and express my extreme displeasure in the intentionally misleading manner in which she has selfishly presented the fee increase to UNM students.
I attended a Veterans Day ceremony Sunday on Lower Johnson Field with distinguished speakers such as Rep. Heather Wilson.
Once again, Conceptions Southwest finds itself on uncertain ground due to the Associated Students of UNM.
This is my third semester at UNM. I'm doing what I can to take advantage of my education - that does not, however, include anything in terms of extra-curricular activities. I go to school, go to work, study, exercise, work a total of 16 hours on Saturday and Sunday and I come home to a wonderful man I plan to marry when I'm done with school, which is where I deserve to spend my evenings.
I want to express my frustration with the way you choose to "fairly and accurately" account the daily news. The job of any journalist is to strive for objectivity when reporting on daily events. I want to commend each of the reporters for doing this, but the editor-in-chief Iliana Lim¢n, who should know better, continually refuses to do so.