Editor, It's spring time again at UNM. The warm weather is here, and the flowers are blooming, apart from other developments at the University. Once again, white students and faculty are forced to sit back and watch something our tax and tuition dollars are paying for, yet we are not invited to participate in it.
Residents living in the dorms say they are happy with their living experience on campus. According to a survey taken last fall, 65 percent of residents are satisfied with their overall dorm experience, and 72 percent of first-year students are also satisfied.
The Faculty Senate began circulating a petition Thursday that calls for President David Schmidly to address University finances. The petition states that the "unfettered control of University finances" has negatively impacted research and teaching. Biology professor Timothy Lowrey said the University seems to have mishandled grant funds.
Editor, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has been at the forefront of the 2008 presidential election. Progressive former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," and Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson supported Ferraro, asking "If you take a freshman senator from Illinois called Jerry Smith, and he says, 'I'm going to run for president,' would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?" The fallout from such statements has been extreme but puzzling.
Marisa C de Baca Sophomore Business No. I didn't because I don't know what it is. Aaron Bradley Junior Intercultural communications I didn't vote because I actually wasn't on campus for a lot of yesterday, and I don't think there's enough information out about the candidates.
Staff report The UNM women's golf team got off to a great start at the Mountain West Conference Championships on Thursday, taking a first-round lead. The Lobos took a nine-shot lead at 6-under par at the UNM Championship Golf Course. Sophomore Jodi Ewart is the overall leader, shooting a 1-under 72.
Riding a four-game winning streak, including a dominating series sweep against Air Force, the UNM baseball team built some momentum heading into a two-game series against Arizona. But momentum wasn't enough, as the Wildcats took both games from UNM this week at Isotopes Park.
Editor, I personally find the Islamic Awareness Week a disturbing attempt by multiculturalists to equivocate the nature of Islam. Along with the good that Islam may embrace, this week should also be an opportunity to illuminate Islam's role in the misery and war that it advocates throughout the civilized world.
Editor, I am a visiting engineering professor from Pennsylvania State University with a specialty in alternative energy. In the honors program, I'm teaching a course on climate change and its impact on New Mexico. Every day I walk to UNM, I marvel at the brightness and intensity of the solar energy splashing down on me and the campus.
Editor, First of all, I would like to congratulate all the newly elected Associated Students of UNM senators. It is evident that the future of our student body is in good hands. I am, however, disappointed with the politics behind ASUNM elections, and I think there is a need to re-evaluate the process.
When Robert Forbes was a teenager, doctors diagnosed him with a mental illness. But when a sporting goods store ran a background check on him when he wanted to buy a gun, a look into his medical records wasn't required, said Peter Forbes, Robert's father.
Editor, Being a student at UNM is not an easy thing. It is particularly difficult for students with disabilities. We face bone-grinding discrimination, discrimination that actually allows senior departmental administrators to enter classrooms while classes are going on and take away the accessible supports of disabled students with absolute impunity.
Editor, What makes every so-called loyal American think that other countries do not revere the flag to the same dying degree that we do in the U.S.? Other countries, Mexico in particular, fought hard, losing many heroic men and women for the right to fly their flag democratically and honorably.
Student Ben Mills sits at a table at Satellite Coffee, poring over a book for his French 200 class. Mills is here at least four times a week, studying the material he needs to know to graduate in May. Mills, who is majoring in international politics, found out last week that he was accepted to Denver University to study international relations as a graduate student.
Director Scott Vehill likes working in the Albuquerque theater scene because of its energy. "We're at a very special place in time where Albuquerque is starting to really explode," he said. "It reminds us of the East Village scene in the '70s and in Chicago in the '80s - when things started to explode.
Moby Last Night 4/5 Available Now Moby's latest effort is a return to his roots. These songs were made for clubs. Even though these are dance beats and not Moby's techo-blues fusion, they still show the evolution of the last couple of albums. Possibly the most fun song on the album, "Disco Lies" is a retro club song, but with modern bass lines.
The Vision slate dominated the undergraduate elections Wednesday, according to unofficial results provided by the ASUNM Elections Commission. The official results will be released today at 5 p.m. Associated Students of UNM President Ashley Fate, of the Vision slate, said she was ecstatic to be re-elected.
Editor, In his letter in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, Philip Howell tries in vain to make the point that it would be a mistake to elect Sen. Barack Obama just because he's African-American. But he simply proves my point that racism is still an integral part of American society.
The Olympic torch has never had it so bad. From Paris to London and in our very own San Francisco, it has evoked a little love but mostly a lot of protests, so much so that the torch had to be extinguished at one point in Paris and put into a bus to keep away hordes of protesters who were trying to put it out.
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