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Cultural practice reveals dietary wisdom

Editor’s Note: Lobos Abroad is a regular column written by Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester. “I think he just slapped me across the face … with his eyes.” My roommate said this after we ordered our dose of afternoon caffeine at the coffee house just down the street. OCT 28

Italy's economy affects birthrate

Editor’s Note: Lobos Abroad is a regular column written by Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester.
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Intercollegiate test compares students

A new assessment will determine how UNM students measure up to their peers at other institutions.
A group of randomly selected graduating seniors will receive e-mails through April 15 that invite then to participate in the Collegiate Learning Assessment. MAR 25

New deals invite smoother transition

For those students in the education programs at either CNM or UNM, life just got easier. On March 3, representatives from UNM and CNM matched up classes between early childhood education and special education to help students transfer easier between the two schools. Chris Larrañaga, senior adviser in Early Childhood Education at UNM, said the agreement will help students at CNM save time when figuring out how to finish up their last two years at UNM in the early childhood program. MAR 11

Buying between the lines

Starting a new chapter each semester doesn’t have to be so expensive. Representatives from Samees’s Textbooks said they have been selling UNM textbooks for less than the UNM Bookstore since 2008. Students from CNM and UNM have bought books from Samees’s Textbookssaid Brian Yu, Samees’s Textbooks manager, but he refused to say how much his sales have increased. JAN 25

Student-designed campus courtyard in the works

Thanks to a design by students for students, the dirt field outside the Centennial Engineering Building will no longer be an eyesore next semester. Tapy Hall housed the civil engineering department until Aug. DEC 12

Race car program funds refueled for another year

UNM’s race car building team won’t have to skid to a stop after all. The Formula Society of Automotive Engineers is an annual international collegiate engineering competition that allows students to design and build their own
race cars. DEC 3

Question and Answer

Senior Sarah Melendez participated in the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program with political science professor Gabriel Sanchez. NOV 9

4,000 local volunteers participate in service day

On Sunday, volunteers around the country united to participate in the largest community service effort in the nation — Make a Difference Day. OCT 26

Student race car team loses University funds

The checkered flag might wave early for a team of race car-building students. The Formula Society of Automotive Engineers is an annual international collegiate engineering competition where students design and build their own race cars. OCT 22

Students find release in swing dancing

UNM junior Kevin Clark started dancing four years ago, thanks to his girlfriend at the time. Now he dances across the nation and is an active advocate for the growing dance scene at UNM. Swing dance is rooted in a sense of community, Clark said. “Swing is about making it a dance between two people rather than two people dancing while holding hands,” he said. Clark said he realized community was the focal point of this dance at his first out-of-state dance event in San Diego. “Sometimes you get jaded to your own dance community, just like any family,” he said. OCT 5

Events give a sense of life with a disability

The Associated Students for Empowerment hosted Disability Awareness Day on Friday to help the UNM community appreciate the day-to-day experience of being disabled. The ASE hosted several activities to show able-bodied individuals what it is like to be disabled, including wheelchair basketball and a blindfold obstacle course. High school student Carter Radzka participated in the wheelchair challenge. OCT 5

Question and Answer

David Brancaccio is host of NOW, a weekly news and analysis program that airs on PBS. In April, Brancaccio and his team were awarded the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Coverage. SEP 2

Science whiz attends UNM after Intel win

While most 16-year-olds play Minesweeper on the computer to cure boredom, UNM student Rishin Behl designed a device to aid in the real-world navigation of minefields. AUG 13

Science whiz attends UNM after Intel win

While most 16-year-olds play Minesweeper on the computer to cure boredom, UNM student Rishin Behl designed a device to aid in the real-world navigation of minefields. As a result, Behl received a full scholarship funded by UNM and Intel two years ago and began attending UNM at age 17. SEP 15

Disabled student seeks stolen Segway

Frank Martin, a disabled student veteran, said he may not be able to get to class anymore, now that a thief took his main method of transportation. Martin was prescribed a motorized Segway five years ago, after a car crash in 1998 left him with a spinal chord disorder that causes chronic fatigue and partial paraplegia. SEP 15

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