Opinion
Opinion
Doctor’s hateful tweet can be a lesson
Amelia Hoover Green | June 16“Dear obese Ph.D. applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.” This hateful, hurtful and deeply inaccurate statement is the work of UNM professor Geoffrey Miller.
Opinion
Thank GOP’s schemes for student debt hikes
June 16Editor, Just like the front of a box of crayons, the GOP has once again shown their true colors. As legislation to prevent student loan interest rates from automatically doubling on July 1 goes down the tubes, the Republican chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee acknowledges that President Obama must submit to a GOP deal or take the blame for interest rates doubling.
Opinion
Column bashing COSAP booklet uncalled for
June 10Editor, In the May 28-June 2 edition of the Daily Lobo, columnist Devon Stevens took a heavy-handed swipe at the “Fun in the 505” booklet produced by the student employees of the Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention: COSAP.
Opinion
Privacy starts with restraint online
Courtney Leiker | June 10In her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes for the esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jodie Foster said, “If you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you’d had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else.
Opinion
States should elect US Senate, not us
John Tyczkowski | June 3Last Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the official enactment of the 17th Amendment, a widely accepted but nonetheless extremely controversial measure that contributed greatly to the erosion of American federalism and aided the supremacy of democracy over the rule of law in this country.
Opinion
If you ask employees to gamble, call spade a spade
June 3Editor, I have noticed lately that the Human Resources Department at UNM, like many HR departments at great universities, is pushing employees to buy into 403(b) and 457(b) plans.
Opinion
We waste food for fun while the world starves
June 3Editor, Your report of the food fight with tens of thousands of tomatoes exemplifies this country’s brazen waste of mounds of precious food in events like this and other similar events such as food-eating contests that occur all over.
Opinion
Frank belittles CNM, but UNM should emulate it
May 28UNM president Robert Frank said recently that if his school does not get the contract to manage Sandia National Laboratories, it would risk becoming like Central New Mexico Community College.
Opinion
COSAP's vagueness muddies message
Devon Stevens | May 28While cleaning up my girlfriend’s dorm for the summer I found a pamphlet from UNM’s Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention. At the start of the semester, they had given everybody who lived in the dorms a pamphlet entitled “Fun in the 505” that purports that “getting drunk is too easy” and offers a list of fun things to do instead of drinking.
Opinion
New tuition hike hurts low-income students
May 6Editor, While I applaud UNM’s stated intent to encourage faster graduation, the new tuition structure they claim is set up to promote this is incredibly flawed.
Opinion
Staff equally as important as faculty for UNM
May 6Editor, In the article announcing Antonio Sanchez’s appointment as Daily Lobo editor-in-chief, Sanchez stated that he wanted the Daily Lobo to “provide a voice for students here, as well as for faculty …
Opinion
Our leaders don’t really know how to fix things
May 6Editor, What may be needed to awaken the citizens of this country: Barack Obama, in a press conference with Joe Biden at his side,
Opinion
Violence often results when religion’s true meaning is lost
Ardee Napolitano | May 2After I turned 17, I got my first job as a busboy in the café of some casino up in Española. There, you have two choices: You can choose between doing the day shift or the night shift.
Opinion
Balancing wisdom of crowds, mob rule
John Tyczkowski | May 1“We the People” — a noble and memorable phrase enshrined within the preamble of the Constitution of the United States. It reminds us that, as Americans, we are the core of our country and our government was designed to be ultimately accountable to us.
Opinion
Students need to take responsibility for their learning and education
Shelby Perea / Daily Lobo guest columnist | April 30Are students learning or are students just getting As? Today, success in school is measured by how high your GPA is, the higher the better. However, does this mean our students are actually learning?
Opinion
Elite interests ruin UNM and higher education for hard-working students
April 30Editor, Recent events indicate UNM is a large institution out of control. The huge tuition increases and higher graduation requirements are far out of line with the needs of the population of the state and indicate a rapid rate of disintegration.
