Last Thursday, I was in the newsroom when Harrison Brooks busted out the door and said he was on his way to test-drive cars. Before I continue, let me get you acquainted with Brooks.
Editor, Some people are falsely blaming the U.S. for the violence in Iraq. In truth, the U.S. is the major force for peace in that suffering country. The violence there remains much less than it was under Baathist dictatorship. It is the different nature of the violence which may be confusing.
The Office of the Medical Examiner building on North Campus was evacuated Thursday afternoon after a chemical spill in one of the laboratories, said Lt. Pat Davis, UNM Police spokesman.
Editor, Humans are an impactful species - no one would deny that our history has produced awesome changes to the planet. Here in academia, we will argue incessantly about the reasons why we are like this, but no one has a definite answer. For all of human history, we have been laboring under incomplete perceptions of our actual impacts upon the earth, which persist but are incrementally being re-evaluated.
An outfit is a work of art most people take for granted. It takes an eye for color and a knack for frugality to be successful at decorating your human canvas - unless you're rich. If you're rich, what I have to present probably doesn't concern you, but congratulations on your prosperity.
by Bruce T. Milne Daily Lobo guest columnist Who are we and what roles do we play in the ongoing transformation to create a sustainable world? Sustainability has the goal of satisfying basic needs for health, food, shelter and transportation without compromising the satisfaction of future generations.
In 1981, the effort required to move a game from one system to another was negligible. Moving "Pac-Man" from the Atari 2600 to the Commodore 64 was a simple matter, requiring little more than recompiling the code for the new system.
The United States needs to promote and conform to international law if it wants success in the Middle East, said a former legal adviser to the Department of Defense. William Taft, an adviser during President George W. Bush's first term, said that after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States began to break away from its history of encouraging countries to work together.
Editor, On March 5, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing NMSU to undertake a study on the viability of a legal industrial hemp industry in this state. Although the hemp plant has always been well-known for its high fiber content and was used frequently by the U.
Is UNM a sustainable university? I'm not talking about its business policies. UNM will continue to operate into the future as well as any university in the U.S. But if our entire society collapses from beneath our feet, there may not be much left in the way of universities, an economy or people to educate.
Static-X Cannibal Available Now There are some things in life that you can't just kind of like - modern art, the opera or Sanjaya Malakar - you either love 'em or hate 'em. The same holds true for metal music - either you revere it the first time you hear it, or you refuse to accept it as a credible ...
Delle McCormick came across Olivia, a 12-year-old Mexican migrant, last year while walking along the Arizona-Mexico border. The girl had been in the desert for days, trying to reach the United States, and was suffering from dehydration and exposure. When they were only five minutes from a hospital and five minutes from a road, Olivia's body gave out, and she died of a heart attack.
Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? Well, you'd be pretty stupid if you weren't. That's not to say a game show couldn't be made of the question. After all, people in this country are very stupid. Hell, even college kids are mostly ignorant, lazy and lacking in critical-thinking skills.
David Schmidly is the right man in the right place, and that place is as the incoming president of UNM. He takes over an institution that has made remarkable strides in recent years. The University is on an aggressive construction and renewal program, as well as planning for a future campus in Rio Rancho to handle growth and demand.
Editor, UNM hired Steve Alford as the new head coach of the men's basketball team for an annual salary of $975,000. Alford is no doubt a very good basketball player and coach, but I am appalled by what his salary says about UNM's educational priorities. Let's do some simple math.
Students, staff and faculty can sign up to get emergency text messages from UNM starting today. The University announced a one-year, $17,000 agreement with Omnilert, a Washington, D.C., company that makes software for sending text messages to large numbers of people.
by Xochitl Campos Daily Lobo columnist Being an American student in Europe is hard. Every person you meet holds you personally responsible for the war. Without asking, they think they know your political opinions and worldview. It never comes as a surprise that what they know about you is a generalization.
When I lived in New Orleans, I watched jazz cats, Delta bluesmen and folkies ply their trades throughout the French Quarter, but one group in particular stood out with its authenticity - the Jug Band at Jackson Square.
Gregory Gleason, a political science professor, will go on a 10-day trip to Israel at the end of May, but he's not sure what his trip will be like. "I don't think the itinerary is something that's public," he said. "People are getting blown up - it's not something where you want people to know when you'll be someplace."
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