Editor, Since I graduated from UNM a year and a half ago, I find myself reading the Daily Lobo more than ever. I also have seen the reoccurrence of a problem that plagued the Lobo a few years back.
Students can now choose field trips and hands-on activities over the lengthy, dull lectures often associated with the courses students are required to take to earn a UNM degree.
The Senate approved $675 in rollover funding for the Black Student Union but rejected a bill that would make "a beast of almost mythical proportions" the Senate's mascot. Representatives of the Black Student Union did not attend a spring budget workshop and hearing that are required to receive funding through ASUNM without being penalized. Student groups that do not attend the workshop or hearing receive at least 15 percent less in funding than they did the year before.
Underneath all that clothing, hidden in the nooks of college bodies, are tiny rings of metal and splashes of permanent color that no boss will ever see. No one can walk around UNM for very long without seeing that hair dye, tattoos and piercings are becoming the norm. A study done in January at Texas Tech University found that 15 to 20 percent of college students, who are the bread and butter of many tattoo shops, have tattoos and piercings.
It is certainly understandable that some old lady clutching an icon of the Virgin might not fully understand the meaning of free expression, but it is always disappointing to see university students assume a similar intolerant stance.
Editor, I applaud and appreciate your decision to print David Horowitz's controversial advertisement regarding race reparations.
Sophomore Amy Montoya works on a drawing for her Drawing II class between the former bookstore and Woodward Hall Tuesday.
It seems that the UNM baseball team will play at least some of its home games at the Albuquerque Sports Stadium next year, but what’s not certain is whether it will be sharing the stadium with a Triple-A baseball team.
American Dennis Tito became Monday what many are calling the world’s first space tourist. Floating onto the International Space Station with a grin on his face and $20 million poorer, he became the first to show that what science fiction authors have dreamed of for decades may not be so far out after all.
Mike McEntee, a city councilor and Republican mayoral candidate, will speak about city politics and answer questions tonight at 7 p.m. in room 127 of Dane Smith Hall.
Editor, It seemed like a bad enough start to the day to see that the infamous Horowitz advertisement had made its way to our campus, but the free speech shield carefully placed on the opposite page really ruined my morning. Eighty percent of the “Opinion” page is dedicated to the Horowitz hoohah, 100 percent of which is in defense of its publication.
As a resident of the Arizona desert, Inda Eaton has no problem drawing lyrical inspiration from the space and land that surrounds her.
The statistics said it was unlikely he would go to college — much less obtain a degree. Born to a working-class family, he grew up poor, a minority and unprepared for college.
Editor, I disagree with Doug Flynn and some of the other folks who want Jeremy Reynalds out of the Daily Lobo. I am probably one of Jeremy’s biggest critics and I disagree with almost everything he writes. Having said that, I also enjoy reading his columns, even if they are, at times, overbearing.
Editor, I have to ask Kristina Scott, Richard Fagerlund and all the others who write the to the Daily Lobo with a clear anti-Christian bias — why does the term “bigot” not apply to you? Why are Christians somehow not part of the diverse population? And I also notice that there is a clear dearth of letters supporting Mr. Reynalds whenever I read the Lobo, so I have to ask the Lobo editor — do you only print anti-Reynalds letters, or are those the only ones you get?
Editor, I am responding to the April 17 Daily Lobo editorial page cartoon on taxes that mentioned me. I have paid no federal income tax for 22 years. I refuse to pay for the United State to rob, terrorize, cripple and murder millions of our sisters and brothers worldwide.
Here in the United States we may not have looming cathedrals and giant pyramids, but we do have the incredible lore of the Wild West and its people.
The argument at the center of last year’s student government election controversy took one step closer to being settled after the Board of Regents Academic Affairs Committee meeting Monday. The committee approved an ASUNM Constitutional amendment that changes language in the student government election code, requiring that Senate vacancies be filled by the candidate who earned the most votes in the most recent student election.
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