Editor, I attended the last forum for the UNM presidential candidates. Even though UNM is an institution with many thousands of students, less than 12 students attended this forum with me. I'm very discouraged by the utter apathy of most of the student body.
For some who live in America, the land of opportunity becomes the land of obstacles. Illegal immigrants face hardships under U.S. systems of higher education, said Andrew Gonzalez, a student programs specialist at El Centro de la Raza.
Concerns about a lawsuit involving UNM presidential candidate David Schmidly dominated the open question portion of the faculty's meeting with him.
If Kelly Ninemire's first time pitching against a top-five opponent is any indication of things to come, the UNM softball team should be in good shape for the rest of the season when she takes the mound.
Editor, Something to remember on this day honoring St. Valentine is that there are consequences to acts of love performed in the heat of the moment, where emotions overwhelm one's thoughts about anything outside of that instant. Enjoy every aspect of the day - except its overcommercialization - but make sure to use protection.
Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? David Schmidly: I actually think there are four, and they're all interrelated, and you have to balance them. They are access, affordability, excellence and student success. Those are the four issues driving higher education ...
Just like the rest of us average Joes, Valentine's Day can be terrific or torturous for athletes, coaches and other sports figures. With the middle of February being so dead for the sports world, here are my winners and losers for Feb. 14.
The first installment of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released Feb. 2. Painstakingly assembled and vetted by more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts from 113 countries, it's an 18-page rundown of the meatiest observations, projections and uncertainties in modern climate change science - a preview of the findings of the larger report, which will be hundreds of pages long and released in sections throughout the year.
Editor, Last Friday, I was skateboarding past the Duck Pond on the way to learn in Dane Smith Hall when a UNM faculty member entered my path. I called out three times in a row to fellow pedestrians, "I'm coming up on the right." I was, at all costs, trying to prevent an accident.
David Schmidly, the final presidential candidate to visit UNM, met with students, staff and faculty Tuesday. Schmidly has been the president and CEO of the Oklahoma State University System since 2002. The regents will name the president by Feb. 23. Here's a look at each of Schmidly's meetings:
Special UNM Weather Closure Notice -- February 14, 2007 Effective at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, classes at UNM for the remainder of the day, including evening classses, will be canceled. In addition, UNM employees in non-critical areas, unless otherwise specified by their respective supervisors, may also leave for the remainder of the day.
Katie Montgomery is not obsessed with the spotlight. With the way she has played lately, there is no way the senior point guard on the UNM women's basketball team can avoid it.
The University of Hawaii-Manoa named UNM Provost Reed Dasenbrock as a finalist for its vacant chancellor position Feb. 12. Dasenbrock was nominated for the position by a professor at the university. He will visit the university Feb. 26 and 27 to meet with faculty, staff and students. The chancellor functions as a president for that university branch and reports to the president of the University of Hawaii System.
Last month, DJ Drama, a high-profile mixtape DJ, had his downtown Atlanta studio raided by the SWAT team. He wasn't fronting a drug-dealing business or laundering money for local criminals. He was producing copies of his popular Gangsta Grillz mixtapes.
More people write poetry than read it. Many of us have never been to a classical music concert, an art show or a play. It's undeniable - a lot of classic art forms are struggling to stay relevant.
Editor, I am writing as a concerned student of UNM. As I'm sure many people were, I was on Facebook last night, talking to friends and checking out groups and people's profiles. I stumbled upon ASUNM's Facebook group. I thought it would be cool to see who was in ASUNM and what sort of issues it was working on this year.
An ASUNM senator is gathering signatures for a letter to the Board of Regents stating that students were not given enough time for meetings with presidential candidates. Sebastián Pa°s, who started the letter, said he is unhappy with the amount of input students were given.
Do you remember Kailee Wells? She was in the news a few years back. Kailee is a little Chinese girl who was adopted by an Albuquerque family. When she was 5 years old, she almost bled to death from a nosebleed. This is how her family discovered that she has aplastic anemia, a disease in which the bone marrow shuts down. Kailee became a local poster child for bone marrow donation, a procedure that could save her life.
As a child, the president of Sandia National Laboratories did not understand engineering. "I lived in a small town, so I had this vague idea that an engineer had something to do with trains," Thomas Hunter said. "I had no sense of what an engineer was or what an engineering education entailed. But I did know what Sputnik was."
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