Poetry is not about victory for slam poet Damien Flores. Flores, along with UNM Lobo Slam teammates Hakim Bellamy, Aaron Cuffee and Carlos Contreras, took second place among 20 teams in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational at Eastern Michigan University on April 7.
Club 7 opened its doors to Downtown Albuquerque on Friday. Patrons stood outside in a long line waiting to enter the club at 515 Central Ave. N.W. Inside, it was packed with about 250 people. Club 7 replaced the Coliseum, but it has a completely different look and feel.
Don't let its small stature fool you - the silvery minnow is an integral part of the Rio Grande's ecosystem, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist said.
Editor, It's nice to hear that CBS and MSNBC took the appropriate action by firing Don Imus for his recent on-air racist remarks. But I don't feel they went far enough, as the current mavericks of the talk-show radio networks continue to fill the airwaves with hateful and divisive rhetoric and stereotypes.
Before this weekend, Jeremy Johnson and Timmie Murphy had never raced in a 10,000- meter run. When their results came in, you might have thought it was the two's specialty.
The UNM women's tennis team has endured one roller-coaster ride of a conference season. After starting 0-4 in the Mountain West Conference, the Lobos have won four in a row and ended regular-season play with three sweeps at home this weekend.
Editor, Let me get this straight. Some say that Americans who want to bring U.S. troops home from the failure in Iraq hurt the morale of these troops, but that extending their tours to 15 months would not hurt their morale. According to President Bush, there isn't a civil war in Iraq, just pure evil.
There couldn't have been a better way for the seniors to celebrate Sunday. Not only did the UNM women's tennis team sweep Air Force 7-0 to conclude Mountain West Conference play, but the team also acknowledged the accomplishments of four seniors - Iva Gersic, Nora Quintal, Allison Davis and Elisa Bonner - who concluded their regular-season collegiate careers Sunday at the UNM Tennis Complex.
Editor, A Bush administration official told CNN recently that White House aides, with President Bush's blessing, are actively trying to hire a new point person to help pilot the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "There's an urgency to get this done," the official said, referring to the administration's new security plan for Iraq.
Students sold themselves to support women in engineering Friday. The Society of Women Engineers held a date auction in the SUB to raise money for its members to attend a national engineering conference. Participants were asked questions about themselves while they were onstage, including "Star Trek, or Star Wars?" Thirty-three men and women were up for bid.
Editor, According to the recently released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming is "unequivocal," and the most likely culprits are people. It is time to open a second front in the battle against global warming by stressing the need for sustainable population growth.
UNM President David Harris met with about 100 people at the law school Sunday to talk about the future of the North Golf Course. The meeting was held because residents are concerned that UNM will commercially develop the golf course, said Sara Koplik, president of the North Campus Neighborhood Association. "We've watched it change over the last 20 years," she said. "This place is beloved."
Editor, After reading Scott Darnell's rhetorical column about fear and hate of Iran on Thursday, I have to wonder if he also believes that we won the Vietnam War and that O.J. Simpson was innocent. There is no question that we must take a strong stance against the development of nuclear weapons by Iran, but how we go about it requires new thinking.
Alumnus Jayson Capps wanted a career in marketing, but he was majoring in fine arts. He signed up for UNM's Cooperative Education Program and worked as a marketing intern for Career Services for six semesters. After he graduated, the office hired him as a professional intern. "I was able to work under someone who could really give me some guidance," he said. "I learned things I never would have been exposed to with my fine arts major. Plus, I got a job after I graduated."
Lately, San Diego State has tormented the UNM softball team. The Lobos turned that around Sunday as they used a three-run sixth-inning surge to top the Aztecs 6-4 at Lobo Field.
Greek life at UNM doesn't end on Sigma Chi Road. "A lot of people don't realize there's an entire group of multicultural Greeks, who don't have campus houses, don't participate in rush week and are very community-oriented," said Erica Gallegos, a member of the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin sorority.
Editor, The unanimous approval by the Board of Regents to increase tuition is absurd. Maybe if its reasons were a bit better, it wouldn't be. First of all, how does raising tuition help in hiring minority faculty? Does it cost more to hire minorities? I don't see how refraining from raising our tuition keeps the University from hiring minorities.
It's Donovan Porterie's show to run now. After the UNM football team lost starting quarterback Kole McKamey to a season-ending knee injury early last season, Porterie got a lot of unexpected playing time.
Editor, While attending a lab last week, I realized where this University's priorities are focused. The lab instructor said that each student was to reuse a single pair of latex gloves for dissections. When asked why the class was instructed to reuse our gloves, the instructor said that the department cannot afford to allow students to constantly change dirty gloves.
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