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Scrutinizing new leadership

January 29

Lonna Atkeson said racial diversity is one of the effects of the November elections. "2006 represents a really significant shift in American politics," she said. "Participants running on the Democratic side are de-racialized." Atkeson was one of four political science professors who gave a panel discussion Friday about the November elections and how the change in Congress will affect the war in Iraq. Atkeson said states like New Mexico are going to be key in 2008. "The Midwest and mountain west will be the battlegrounds for the next election," she said. Speaker Andrew Ross, director of the Office for Policy, Security and Technology, said Congress has a bigger role in Iraq because Democrats are in charge.

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Sports

Lobos not giving up despite tribulations

Steven Fernandez | January 26

The UNM men's basketball team is struggling to find its identity. With its record slipping close to .500 after losing six of its last seven games, the Lobos look nothing like the team that started the year 5-0.

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News

daily lobo asks you:

January 26

Alanna Kelley Junior Psychology The education is a lower quality than what it should be. I've got a 4.0, and it's just too easy. I went to a community college in South Carolina, and I got two B's. I had to work really hard. You all compensate for the quality of high school education here. Ryan ...

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News

Prof: Nanotech could save lives

Caleb Fort | January 26

Before Steve Walsh went to school to get a doctorate in 1990, he made about $250,000 per year on the payroll of several high-tech companies. "Then I went and paid thousands of dollars a year to get that degree, and as a teacher, I get paid substantially less than half of what I made before that," he said. "I like it when I help other people do well. I guess that's not good from a greedy, capitalist viewpoint."

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Opinion

Veteran rapper deserves more credit for his work

January 26

Editor, After reading the CD reviews in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, I was left with a very bad taste in my mouth. How does a 10-year veteran in the rap game, Styles P, also known as SP the Ghost, get a lower review on his CD than some no-name local artist? Styles P is nationally known in the hip-hop world - who is Jigzaw? The author of these reviews clearly does not know her hip-hop and clearly did not listen to Time Is Money, Styles P's CD.

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News

Evidence room contains items you'd never imagine

January 26

From chicken claws to sausages, Detective Ronnie Rushing said just about everything comes to the UNM Police Department to be filed as evidence. "It could be anything - anything that helps to prove or disprove a person's guilt in court can be used as evidence," said Rushing, one of the evidence custodians for the department.

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Sports

Ranked players, team will face stiff competition

Brandon Call | January 26

The UNM women's tennis team will have some expectations to live up to this season. The Lobos enter the 2007 spring season ranked No. 45 in national polls by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

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Opinion

Participate in interviews for next UNM president

January 26

Editor, State of New Mexico law requires that the UNM regents' final decision concerning the selection of our 20th president take place at least 21 days, but no more than 30 days, after providing public notice of the names of the five finalists who were announced Wednesday.

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Opinion

Hard to ignore global warming

Olivier Simon | January 26

While a few fringy folks continue to deny the existence of, or human role in, climate change, the issue has been gradually advancing in public consciousness - no thanks to our media and political apparatus, which continue to grossly misrepresent it.

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Culture

Watching television is enough to make you sick

Joe Buffaloe | January 25

It's award season, at least according to the TV Guide Channel - you know, the station dedicated to letting you know what's on other stations. So, as I was lying on my couch for about the eighth hour straight yesterday, doing everything short of sacrificing a baby to get over a nasty bug, I thought, 'Maybe this is what they mean by Oscar fever.'

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Opinion

Sacrifices must be made for a peaceful result in Iraq

January 25

Editor, President Bush used 46 percent of his State of the Union address to explain the epic struggle our nation faces: We are forced to fight Islamic terrorists and their fascist ideology. He tells us they want to destroy Western civilization, and if they are not challenged, he believes they have the potential to succeed.

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Culture

Atari's video game graveyard discovered in southern New Mexico city

Mike Smith | January 25

It was 1982 in America, a time and place steeped in fear of nuclear war, burdened by the worst economic recession since the Great Depression and made occasionally bearable by escaping into pop culture.

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News

Student investments pay off for University

January 25

by Jeremy Hunt Daily Lobo With a portfolio of more than $2 million, it's the richest class at UNM. Anderson Schools of Management's portfolio management practicum is a class where students use the Board of Regents' money to invest in stocks and manage a portfolio. "Our No. 1 priority is to mold ...

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News

Lobos can't keep up with BYU in second home defeat

Steven Fernandez | January 25

by Steven Fernandez Daily Lobo Tony Danridge carried the UNM men's basketball team for the first 16 minutes Wednesday at The Pit. Unfortunately for the Lobos, none of his teammates got too involved on the offensive end, and Brigham Young ran away with the rest of the game in a 70-49 win. With ...

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Culture

Dealing a hand to NM's elite

January 25

There's a poker game where the players still call each other by last name, and some say a player has to die before another one can enter the game. "That isn't strictly true," author Dave Stewart said. "But it's very hard to get in to the game."

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Opinion

There's a lot more to life than material possessions

January 25

Editor, I recently came across several articles from various sources decrying this generation's obsession with material wealth, physical looks and having the latest gadgets above all else. New polls show that the obsession with material things among our nation's youth is growing and that being rich is more important to today's young people than it was in the past.

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Opinion

Presidential hopeful lacks resolve and dependability

January 25

Editor, Selective perception clouded columnist Scott Darnell's vision when he described Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, as gutsy Wednesday. Gutsy is not a person who walked with President Bush into a disaster; gutsy is not a person who was adamantly against torture but caved when it was politically expedient; gutsy is not a person who hugs a man that spread lies in South Carolina during the 2000 Republican primary; and gutsy is not a man that will do and say anything to gain the Republican presidential nomination.

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News

Information on the presidential candidates

January 25

Meredith Hay  Since June 2005, vice president for research at the University of Iowa, which received $360 million in external research funding during the past fiscal year.  Reports directly to the president.  Has served as assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at the University ...

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News

Narrowing the search

Caleb Fort | January 25

The regents announced the five finalists for the position of University president at a meeting Wednesday. Under state law, the regents have to wait a minimum of 21 and a maximum of 30 days after naming the finalists before selecting a president. Jamie Koch, president of the regents, said the Board of Regents will try to name a president within 22 or 23 days.

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News

Minorities discuss lack of diversity in grad school

Caleb Fort | January 24

Michelle Touson sometimes has a hard time explaining to her family why it takes so long to get a doctorate.