Editor,
I found myself on the UNM campus on Monday gazing upon the Daily Lobo when I discovered the blatant truth presented by Brandon Curtis on the Opinion page. Marginal students should be sent to T-VI to prevent lowering UNM's academic standards.
Since I attend T-VI full time and come to UNM to take advantage of the libraries and computer laboratories, I had to reevaluate my status as a student.
I thought I attended T-VI because the tuition is roughly one third of what UNM charges, most of the educational staff works at both institutions and the classes are generally smaller, so I can interact more with my instructors.
It is disappointing to learn that I have doomed myself to receiving a mediocre liberal arts degree. It seems that Mr. Curtis has lost touch with the community around him while busy pursuing his political science degree. I guess that means that he will soon become president.
I continued to read more of the enlightened letters to discover the painful bemoaning of Dawn Lehner, who struggles with syllabi and parking at UNM. It seems that Ms. Lehner has trouble paying for parking along with her mortgage, tuition, books, stethoscopes, hemostats and car payment.
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I find myself torn apart by Ms. Lehner's letter, since I drive a 1987 Toyota, live in an apartment, pay for my tuition and books without the luxury of a student account and avoid paying for personal loans by not having any. I have to say that Ms. Lehner ought to skip out on a few extra-value meals and shopping trips to come up with the cash to buy her syllabi from Digital Printing. Maybe you should park in the G Lot and ride the shuttle with the rest of the serfs.
I then came across a letter from Richard Fagerlund, who disagrees with searching for fossil fuels in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the transportation of sheep. Mr. Fagerlund proposes that 61 sheep should have been moved by helicopter one at a time to avoid accidental deaths that occurred during mass transportation, which involved moving five at a time.
Well, since helicopters use fuel and cost a lot of money, wouldn't that just increase the demand for fossil fuels that is driving the push to explore the refuge for oil? I also believe that such drastic measures were being taken because the sheep were all going to croak where they were at, so they needed to be moved.
Yes, animals die because of human intervention. This is a sad reality when you are not at the top of the food chain.
It saddens me that these are the best letters that the students of UNM could send to the Daily Lobo.
I suppose that either no one reads the Daily Lobo or that no one really cares about the important issues that affect student life at UNM.
Maybe I should just head back to T-VI and pursue my marginal degree in liberal arts. They let me park free there, and I hear there is a special on sheep steak in the dining hall.
Matthew Hooge,
T-VI student
