Opinion
<i>Lobo</i> couldn’t have won without students
April 13Thank you. That is what I have to say to the 765 students who voted against Amendment One that was on Wednesday’s undergraduate student government ballot.
Tuition increase only a bargain if you make a lot
April 13Editor, A 23.5 percent tuition increase in a little more than one year is another “only in New Mexico” phenomenon.
Easter about Christ, not Bunny
Jeremy Reynalds | April 13Nobody can deny that we live in a troubled world. Evidence of that surrounds us on a daily basis: school shootings, a seriously troubled stock market, rampant divorce, a disturbing lack of morality even among a number of religious leaders and the list goes on.
Students shouldn’t bare brunt of budget problems
April 12Tuesday’s vote by the Board of Regents to increase UNM tuition yet another 8.3 percent is a travesty. Regents Larry Willard, Judith Herrera, Jack Fortner and David Archuleta — were you listening at all to the group of students outside Scholes Hall? Did you hear the cries of protest? How can you justify raising tuition once again without giving students what they need and deserve?
Cell phone usage is annoying
April 12You. Yes, you. The one with the cell phone. I love you. I love the way your phone rings in the middle of class, two, maybe three times before you realize that it's your own electronic pocket-pal. I don't know your name exactly, but I make up names for you in my head. Nokia, if you're cute. Motorola, if you're a bit on the hefty side. Ericsson, if you're smart.
Students' protest of small tuition increase irritating
April 12Editor, I swear, even as college students, we are always looking for some excuse to get out of class.
Voting can rescue the <i>Lobo</i>
Craig A. Butler | April 11If you haven’t already voted today in the ASUNM election, do it now. Or after this class. Or whenever you have time.
Students shouldn't bare brunt of budget problems
April 11Editor, Tuesday's vote by the Board of Regents to increase UNM tuition yet another 8.3 percent is a travesty. Regents Larry Willard, Judith Herrera, Jack Fortner and David Archuleta - were you listening at all to the group of students outside Scholes Hall? Did you hear the cries of protest? How can you justify raising tuition once again without giving students what they need and deserve?
A vote for the <i>Lobo</i> is a vote for democracy
April 11Editor, In the words of David Grohl, this is a call. A call to all UNM students to please think twice before cutting ASUNM funding to the Daily Lobo.
The People is for the students
April 11Editor, Many rumors have been buzzing around campus about what The People slate really stands for and, more importantly, what we do not.
On closer inspection, Sierra didn’t do his homework
April 11Editor, I am very concerned about the rhetoric presented in Luis Sierra’s April 6 letter regarding his attitude about Sen. Tim Serna and The People slate.
A `Yes' vote puts literary publications in jeopardy
April 10I am writing to urge all undergraduate students to vote against Amendment 1 on Wednesday.
`Accountability' is not a one-way street
April 10As this season of political bantering and maneuvering comes near its end - thankfully - the Daily Lobo must add its two cents about something that affects it: Amendment 1 on the student government ballot.
Regents should ensure raises
April 10This is an open letter to the University’s Board of Regents: On April 5, Gov. Gary Johnson signed the legislative bill that restores faculty and staff compensation to the General Appropriations bill.
Tax argument fails when it comes to `Our Lady'
April 10Jeremy Reynald's column about the bikini clad Virgin Mary is interesting but typically wrong.
Contra support still questioned
Brandon D. Curtis | April 10Twenty years ago, the United States took steps in a policy that would later shake the Reagan administration and generate questions of why and how our government took the steps it did.


