Editor, I am deeply distressed with everybody on this campus who thinks there is a constitutional right to breathe. That's correct. All you people whining about smokers ought to get it straight: There's no such thing as the right to breathe, so just get over it.
Editor, Regarding the debate about intelligent design, and specifically Mark Erasmus' letter printed in the Daily Lobo on Friday, the question is not whether intelligent design is real science. The question is what do we do with the intelligent design we observe in nature? Michael Behe and William Dembski are not necessarily interjecting religion into the debate, but they are addressing the elephant that is sitting in the middle of the room.
The UNM women's basketball team concluded its exhibition schedule Sunday with a 98-66 win over Eastern New Mexico at The Pit. Head coach Don Flanagan said the Lobos were outworked by the Zias despite the 33-point margin of victory.
UNM head basketball coach Steve Alford may have looked at it as just another practice, but there was little he could complain about after his team's 94-50 thrashing of Eastern New Mexico on Friday at The Pit. The Lobos played well in all phases of the game, and Alford said he was happy with each player's performance.
Not everyone at the IRS has a desk job. Some agents spend their days digging through trash and installing wiretaps, IRS special agent Jerry Gomez said. The agents, known as certified forensic examiners, investigate tax fraud and enforce tax laws, Gomez said.
Editor, In response to Don Schrader's letter to the Daily Lobo on Thursday, the mere thought of drinking my own urine is absolutely disgusting. And I also don't think it's very sanitary to wash my body and hair with my own urine. Stagnant urine in a toilet smells very bad, so imagine how someone would smell after washing themselves in their own urine.
Loyola Chastain used to fight traffic every day on a 100-mile round-trip commute to UNM, but not anymore. Chastain, manager of academic advisement at the Anderson Schools of Management, is in the University's vanpooling program. "The vanpool is terrific," she said.
If the UNM football team wants to come out of Saturday's TCU game with a win, slowing down the Horned Frogs from the get-go will be key. The last two times the teams met, TCU jumped out to leads of 28-0 and 24-0 and won both games despite rallies by the Lobos.
Reading all the recent reports concerning incompetence and seeming criminality in the administration, you may have noticed President David Schmidly and other administrators sound hauntingly like attorneys, politicians or government spokespeople. And indeed they do, because like these other groups, they often need to avoid speaking the truth because it might be embarrassing, yet for a variety of reasons are loathe - unlike the White House - to tell outright lies.
Editor, I am writing in response to Ward Abbott's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday claiming that the smoking ban is not based on scientific proof of threat. This is an extremely uninformed opinion of a former staff member that needs clarification.
Zimmerman Library opened Thursday afternoon after a flood in the basement forced it to close Wednesday. It was closed for almost 24 hours while workers pumped and vacuumed water out of the basement and checked for damage to electric lines. The basement was closed for renovation after a fire in 2006.
It was a tale of two teams for the UNM women's basketball team Thursday. The Lobos fell to the Chinese National Team 67-61 at The Pit. The loss ends an 18-game winning streak by UNM in exhibition games. "We were two different teams out there," head coach Don Flanagan said.
Editor, It is time to put the intelligent design debate to rest. Proponents of intelligent design aggressively market their viewpoint as real science, insisting it is not religion-based. One leading advocate, Michael Behe, writes, "The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself, not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs.
Editor, In 1988, I completed the analysis of 604 surveys on the UNM North Golf Course for the North Campus Neighborhood Association. At that time, President Richard Peck was interested in turning the Barren Fairways into a driving range. In 1988, we still had a pair of burrowing owls living on the Barren Fairways.
For centuries, the sweet flavors of homemade bread and candy have mingled with the smell of marigolds to entice departed souls to return to Earth. Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican celebration to honor the souls of dead loved ones, has roots in Mesoamerican traditions dating back to 1200 B.C.
The struggle between personal and artistic identity takes center stage this weekend. The Out Of the Ordinary Festival will be held through November at VSA North Fourth Art Center, 4904 Fourth St. N.W. The festival is designed to show off new forms of dance, art and acting.
Editor, The column by La Mont Chappell II in Monday's Daily Lobo contained claims that sparked debate among the students and staff of the African-American Student Services. The column claimed that affirmative action is out of date, institutional racism no longer exists, affirmative action was a temporary measure to level the playing field, students admitted by affirmative action will invariably fail, students admitted by affirmative action cannot compete with their peers, middle-class minorities are born with the same privileges as middle-class whites, and middle-class minorities do not need affirmative action.
Editor, In response to the letter by Isaac Padilla published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday, I want to say that it is absurd to assume that all white middle-class people feel affirmative action is negative. For hundreds of years, the African-American family structure was dismantled as a matter of practice.
About 500 people evacuated Zimmerman Library on Wednesday after a water pipe burst, flooding the basement. The library had to be cleared, and the power was shut off while clean-up crews drained the water, said Joel Straquadine, facilities maintenance manager of Physical Plant.
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