A school in the region of San Luis La Herredura, El Salvador, is not the most suitable location for children to learn, student Megan Fitzpatrick said. "So, we're going to knock it down and rebuild," she said. "The school houses about 500 students. There are two functional classrooms but no functional toilet."
Vernon Smith Graduate student Philosophy I don't have a problem with it. I think it's positive to expand in that direction. And then you could also say that it's spreading limited resources thinner. I guess I don't really have a strongly formed opinion on the subject right now. Lauren Liwski ...
Art patrons crowded to see vivid statements about animal abuse at Visiones Gallery on Friday. The opening reception for "Quienes Son Los Animales: Altars to Lives Sacrificed for Human Greed" coincided with a Dia de los Muertos celebration at the gallery. The exhibit runs until Nov. 21. It was put on by members of Working Classroom, a nonprofit.
Books that record cultural histories of American Indians are essential in preserving native cultures, a UNM Press publicist said.
UNM photography students are taking their work out of the classroom and into the gallery. Jim Stone's digital photography class organized a show called "Work Flow" at the Petting Zoo at 1407 Fourth St. S.W. It opened Friday, and its last day is today.
World peace must start with individual people and work its way up, the president of the Bahai Student Association said. "Any goal is achievable by individual transformation first," Aniseh Bro said. "You start at the grassroots and then you build up."
Editor, I am grateful for the increasingly high tone of the current discussion on evolution and intelligent design in the Daily Lobo. Contrary to the first letter in the series, Charles Darwin did not invent evolution. His thought was preceded by the work of Charles Lyell, a high British church official, who concluded from the geologic record that the world was much older than biblical accounts.
It's hard to go to school full-time and find an interesting job, said Kiran Katira, director of the UNM Service Corps. Katira said the corps has been helping students find a balance between the two for more than 10 years.
Editor, It seems the most popular and financially successful movies are often about men who act like juvenile delinquents, who view women solely as sexual objects to be used and tossed away, or some guy having superpowers. In the movies, many people do not work; they trivialize marriage and family; they glorify violence; or they have some ideology they want to clandestinely suggest to the audience.
Editor, Cyclists do and should continue to have the same rights and responsibilities as motorists. The problem is a vast majority of Albuquerque motorists fail to recognize this fact. Five years ago, I gave up my car, and since then, I have commuted exclusively by bicycle.
Editor, I was deeply insulted by Debbie Cox's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday in which she calls creationist theory an outdated fairy tale. If she is referring to the Bible, then she is completely wrong, because it is one of the most extensively documented books in history.
It's basketball season already, and I don't know if I'm prepared to take on the grueling season ahead of us. Luckily, there are a few major subplots that will help the NBA steal some headlines from the NFL in the next few months. Here are a few of the questions I have as the NBA season gets underway.
Driving while you're tired can be just as dangerous as driving drunk, said Nancy Polnaszek, the director of the Sleep Disorder Center. "Of all the (vehicle) accidents that occur in a year here in the United States, 50 percent of them occur with drivers that are 25 years of age or less," she said. "The impact of driving sleep-deprived is the same as driving with a DUI."
The NBA started last week without too much fanfare. Ho-hum. As I was sifting through my seemingly endless sea of e-mails from major sporting affiliations, something caught my eye.
Abir Kopty said that before Israel became a state in 1948, there was peace in the region. "I used to hear stories from my grandfathers and grandmothers that people used to live peacefully," she said.
Going into public service after graduation could erase some of your student loans. Under the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, students can have their federal student loans forgiven after 10 years of payments if they work in public service that whole time.
The UNM football team will have to pick itself up after its most crushing defeat of the season Saturday. Entering that 37-0 thrashing at the hands of TCU, the Lobos were off to a 6-2 start and were one of the hottest teams in the Mountain West Conference.
Former UNM men's basketball player Danny Granger was named the NBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Granger helped the Indiana Pacers to a 3-0 start by averaging 22.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.7 steals.
Editor, After reading all the letters debating intelligent design versus evolution for the past couple of weeks, I want to comment on what I feel is the most pointless argument in favor of intelligent design. It is, to paraphrase, "I can't possibly imagine how all this complexity I see in the world could have come about through random events, and therefore, God did it.
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