At the Daily Lobo, we encourage the community at the University of New Mexico to donate valuable assets — including eggs and more eggs! In exchange for positive coverage, students and faculty members can bring us eggs. One egg equals one marvelous quote about you in a Daily Lobo article, subject to change depending on the price of eggs at transaction.
Eck Carton, a freshman at the University of New Mexico, said the arrangement has worked out in his favor.
“I’ve exchanged about 10 dozen eggs so far. I think the quotes are helping me reach stardom,” Carton said. “They should rename the Daily Lobo to the Daily Eck.”
Last week, Carton was recognized on Central Avenue.
“A man on the street asked me, ‘Are you the guy with the eggs in the newspaper?’” Carton said. “Then he mugged me.”
As more people bring eggs to the Lobo, UNM President Garnett Stokes encourages the paper to donate them to La Posada.
“We can’t afford eggs anymore,” Stokes said.
Etha Caldelemma, a news reporter at the Daily Lobo, said the paper surpassed its goal of 700 bartered eggs.
“We wanted the eggs for their economic value,” Caldelemma said. “We created a drive-through at Marron Hall so the community can drop off their eggs.”
Culture reporter Badra Porter agreed with Caldelemma.
“I wrote an article about a UNM student named Humpty Dumpty,” Porter said. “He, alone, can improve the egg industry — but he prefers to sit on the walls at UNM. We’re afraid he might break one day.”
Becca Chickenson, a UNM professor in the Department of Fowl Studies, hopes the situation can turn the Daily Lobo into an egg storage facility.
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“Instead of being a crummy newspaper, the Daily Lobo has the opportunity to become something great,” Chickenson said.
Chickenson plans to take her students on a field trip to the Daily Lobo office on April 1.
“It’s a good chance for students to get involved,” Chickenson said. “I bring my eggs to the Lobo every Friday and they write nice things about me in the paper. My grandma’s pretty happy about it.”
Dumpty said he is afraid of the enormous amount of eggs stored at the Daily Lobo.
“I wanted to move dorms, but they moved me into Marron Hall with the Daily Lobo instead,” Dumpty said. “It’s dangerous. It’s too crowded for the egg residents. I almost cracked the other day.”
Dannely Verduzco is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
