Editor, Student Steven J. Aragon, the resident New Mexico textbook publishing expert, has an uncanny ability to explain economic theory in practice within the textbook industry. "Textbooks are expensive because students buy used books," he stated Monday in the Daily Lobo.
Matt Foote walked to the plate with the Lobos trailing rival NMSU 4-3 to lead off the sixth inning. At bat later in the same inning, Foote hit a three-RBI double to give the UNM baseball team a 10-4 lead and a choke hold in the game.
Florida needs to go away. After the Gators won the men's NCAA Tournament last year - followed by their football team winning the national championship in February - I have been praying that they don't repeat as titleholders this year.
Researchers of the future can expect to search library archives as easily as they search the Internet, said Michael Kelly, director of the Center for Southwest Research. "They want it to be like Google," he said. "They want to be able to go to one place, type in what they're looking for, and it searches everything." UNM is moving in that direction with the Rocky Mountain Online Archive - Rmoa.unm.edu - a $250,000 Web site launched by the University on March 1. More than 20 libraries in New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming are part of the archive. Before the archive, there was no place to search collections in the three states. "You'd have to look at a list from each library and find out what you wanted and tell them," Kelly said. "It was pretty laborious." A search on the site for Billy the Kid lists 65 documents, including Lincoln County documents and a collection of photographs. Most of the documents are not available digitally, but the Web site lists enough information to request the documents from the library. "We'll have people call us and say, 'Could you photocopy the contents of folder six in such-and-such a collection?'" Kelly said. "They wouldn't have been able to do that before."
Editor, I've read various stories in the Daily Lobo with both positive and negative reactions from peers and myself. However, I've never felt so strongly about a story until I read about the bill for a polling station in Mesa Vista Hall. It's not the bill's failure that angered me, but rather the cavalier attitude that some of the ASUNM senators had about shooting it down - in particular, the words of Sen.
Editor, In the Daily Lobo on March 9, Benjamin Sanchez argues that the complementary nature of male and female genitalia and the associated reproductive capacity means "those who want to change the definition of marriage are living outside of objective reality.
Editor, I'd like to thank Jeffrey Bullard for his letter in Monday's Daily Lobo about the March 9 "Street Beat," my show on KUNM radio. I take all comments to heart and evaluate them accordingly. As for suggesting I may be addicted to cocaine, that is a comedic but uninformed comment on my own lifestyle.
This year's men's NCAA Tournament can be defined by one word - predictable. As I do every year when facing the dilemma of filling out an NCAA bracket for an office pool, I tend to go for the higher seeds. This year, my strategy is finally paying off.
Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill March 13 that requires employers to provide a private, clean space for breast-feeding mothers to pump their milk. Graduate student Lissa Knudsen lobbied the Legislature in order to show how important it was to get the bill passed. Lobbying wasn't easy, she said. "I felt like a fish out of water," she said. "This was the big time, and I'm a student, but it went really well, and we made it through with flying colors." House Bill 613 also requires that employers allow flexible breaks for employees who breast-feed. Sandrea Gonzales, director of the Women's Resource Center, said it is a step toward protecting breast-feeding rights for mothers at UNM. "It's extremely important for nursing mothers, because in the past, it's been difficult for them to find places," she said. "This makes it more convenient for a nursing mother to be a student, to be successful and to complete her education." Knudsen said a mother's right to breast pump should be protected.
It took a bizarre sixth-inning comeback, but the UNM men's baseball team clinched the season series with NMSU on Tuesday. The Lobos trailed 4-3 heading into the bottom of the sixth but scored seven runs in the inning - including four on three bunts - en route to a 13-6 win over the Aggies at Isotopes Park.
I am writing in response to Benjamin Sanchez's letter in the Daily Lobo on March 9. From a biological perspective, heterosexuality is indeed the only way to produce new human beings.
Editor, It has been reported that former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was not put on the White House's firing list until after receiving phone calls from Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson. The U.S. attorney in California, Carol Lam, was fired one day before executing a search warrant on former CIA official Dusty Foggo in the investigation of Wilson's good friend, former Rep.
Editor, Has the war on drugs become a war on education? In January 2005, law enforcement officers found a very small amount of marijuana inside a house I was sharing with two other students. A direct consequence of my pleading guilty to possession was that I immediately became ineligible to receive financial aid to help pay for my tuition at Northern State University in South Dakota.
It took a little serendipity to create Meat the Vegans. The band, who took first place at ASUNM's Battle of the Bands in February, came together in June when Seth Hoffman and Jacob Lowery, formerly of the band Seth and Jacob, ran into some bad luck.
More than 400 pairs of boots, representing National Guard deaths in Iraq, stood in rows in Smith Plaza on Monday. Todd Lambert, who helped organize the "Eyes Wide Open" exhibit, said UNM is an appropriate place for the traveling memorial to visit.
Marcella's favorite movie sucks. She assigned me to write a column on "Adventures in Babysitting," a forgettable movie from the "Uncle Buck" era of late-'80s, family-friendly comedies.
La Cucaracha Stew Co. is out to prove that politics is not just about speeches and fliers. "Our whole idea is to be a guerrilla theater kind of thing that can go to a protest and do an image that knocks into everybody's head what we are trying to say, without even saying anything," member Billah Muhammad said. "They know what it is. They know what we are doing. We don't even have to say anything."
Whether you've been bitten by a snake or swallowed some acetone, the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center probably has an answer.
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