Albert Palma and Zachery Watkins are the latest of more than a dozen Fulbright Scholars to come from UNM in the last five years. The Fulbright Scholar Program has promoted international exchanges at UNM since the program was founded in 1946. Watkins was awarded the grant in order to travel to Germany to be a teacher's assistant in a high school English class.
The Board of Regents voted Aug. 12 to change University policy to comply with the Inspection of Public Records Act, ending months of deliberation on the issue. The IPRA is a state law that says all documents created by a public body such as UNM are eligible for inspection.
The UNM chapter of Lambda Theta Phi fraternity recently received an award from its national headquarters for chapter of the year. Lambda Theta Phi was founded in 1975 and was the country's first recognized Latino fraternity. In 1998 the UNM chapter was chartered on campus.
The Children, Youth and Families Department of New Mexico honored juvenile officers earlier this month during National Probation and Parole Officers Week. The CYFD hosted a banquet to recognize the more than 200 officers who work with New Mexico's youth.
UNM wide receiver Roland Bruno has lived the life of a walk-on. "I already knew when I first got here, being a walk-on, even players who come in on scholarship have to spend at least their first year on scout team," he said. He persevered - rode the proverbial rollercoaster of emotion.
The Hellblinki Sextet have formed a musical trinity that invokes opera, punk rock and Sesame Street. They have only three musicians, but they make enough noise to sound like six. "We wanted to have kind of a jazz-type name, so it had to be a sextet," frontman Andrew Benjamin said.
Editor, I am a '93 and '96 UNM graduate who lived in Hokona Hall in 1988 and 1989. I currently work for a company that holds a camp every summer at UNM for junior high and high school students. We have several staff members and participants who travel from out of state to attend.
Of all the issues being debated by presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain, each have yet to discuss a divisive issue among the ranks of the NCAA - amateurism in the NCAA. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept, amateurism is where a player doesn't accept endorsement or earnings of any kind for engaging in sports.
Chris Hernandez lines up split out to the left in a two-wide-receiver bunch formation. His teammate, cornerback DeAndre Wright, jogs out opposite of him, tip-toeing the line of scrimmage. As the ball is snapped, Wright gives Hernandez a friendly jam, upsetting the timing of Hernadez's slant route and forcing Donovan Porterie to check-down to his running back.
The Enemy UK We'll Live and Die In These Towns Available Now 4/5 It's not often that you manage to find a band that sounds like the Beatles and Iggy Pop at the same time, but The Enemy UK manages to pull it off, and they sound good doing it. Their first album, We'll Live and Die In These Towns, has no business being anyone's first album.
Editor, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are almost fully aligned on critical issues and are both diametrically opposed to John McCain's views, which mirror those of our current administration. If passionate backers of Clinton stay home on Election Day or, worse yet, vote for McCain, they are endorsing a third term for President Bush.
What are you most looking forward to this fall? David Wilde Grad student Creative writing "I'm looking forward to applying for fellowships and taking some Spanish and Greek classes, and possibly some Portuguese." Miguel Rivera Sophomore Psychology "I think it will be an improvement from last fall.
Staff Report Since being drafted by the Boston Celtics, former Lobo basketball player JR Giddens has been ping-ponging across the United States - Texas, California, Oklahoma, Boston, and, most recently, New Mexico. His life, he said, revolves around basketball.
Scientists eye White Sands for Mars tech testing ALAMOGORDO (AP) - NASA scientists need a place to practice for more explorations of Mars and, after a visit to New Mexico, three of them think they may have found just the spot to test their theories: White Sands National Monument.
Recruiters said he was too small to be a linebacker. Coaches said his athletic future was in baseball. Zach Arnett played college football anyway. Three years later, the senior is leading the University of New Mexico into its 2008 season as the starting middle linebacker and team captain.
Nob Hill is the mecca of locally owned and operated shopping in Albuquerque. Home to chic, urban shops that sell everything from antiques to modern furniture and hot-off-the-runway fashions, Nob Hill's homegrown reputation may come under attack this November when Urban Outfitters joins the neighborhood.
Editor, I thought I'd chime in here as a lost and lonely voice defending some of the older interpretations of Batman in the wake of the fully deserved avalanche of acclaim for the "The Dark Knight." There isn't any doubt that Heath Ledger deserves tons of accolades for his amazing and regrettably final performance in this film, and it is a great Batman movie.
UNM tailback Rodney Ferguson has been a big, bruising force throughout his football career. While some running backs are noted for their quickness or finesse and shy away from contact, Ferguson squares his shoulders and braces for impact. "It's my nature," Ferguson said.
University Stadium is dead, dormant, hibernating. It has been since Dec. 22, 2007, the last time the Lobos took to the field in a 23-0 trouncing of Nevada in the New Mexico Bowl. Since then, 31 Saturdays have come and gone, all without the click-clack of cleats, without the boisterous whoops and hollers of the "Red Sea," as quarterback Donovan "Moses" Porterie calls it.
Students looking for their weekly comic book fix need go no further than University Comic Warehouse, a short walk across Central Avenue from the Communication & Journalism building. It's a laid-back shop, opening around noon most days. Inside, the store is decorated only by posters advertising the comics that fill every shelf.
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