Editor,
Monday's Daily Lobo exemplifies why those members of the ASUNM Senate who seek to defund the student newspaper should be ashamed of themselves.
The front-page layout alone exhibits the potential for high quality in a college paper. Above the fold, we read stories about the activities of groups with antithetical aims - given equal space.
I'm no journalist, but that seems like balanced reporting to me.
Would any of our local corporate newspapers have presented these same stories in similar fashion? I don't know, since I gave up reading them several years ago.
I would like to mention and commend one other piece from Monday's Lobo; the column by Maceo Carillo Martinet.
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Mr. Martinet describes poignantly and truthfully what many of us have been feeling for a long time: we grieve over the crass and philistine way that the beauty of this Earth is being squandered in the name of power and capital. I somehow doubt that the Albuquerque Journal would have touched anything so "radical."
I have one more point, regarding the story on the Rally for America, from which people seem to have stayed away in droves. State Rep. William Fuller condemns campus anti-war protesters as "mindless sheep" whose heads are "filled with thoughts that are anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-military and are rewriting history."
With all due respect, colonel, instead of uttering unbecoming ad hominems, perhaps you ought to examine your own state of denial. Why did so few attend the rally?
May I suggest that most of the protesters whom you deride, as well others who stayed away are thinking, reflecting individuals. They are the kind of people that our universities are designed to produce, who simply reject your obsolete solutions.
As far as "rewriting history," why not? As far as I know, no corporation has claimed exclusive patent rights to the history of civilization. Besides, any new version of history would have a hard time outdoing the standard one in terms of the quantity of distortions and outright lies.
Robert Watson
Philosophy graduate student
