Editor, In response to the editorial in Tuesday's Daily Lobo, I would like to emphasize a few key issues. It is important to remember that many nonprofit organizations, of which the University is one, run like businesses but with specific civic or philanthropic goals.
Poet Lisa Gill has traveled down some weird roads. Europe, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, dreams and an innate knack for writing led the graduate student to win one of the nation's top awards for poets - a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Although Crazy Fool is now a vital part of Albuquerque's reggae scene, it came from humble beginnings. "I had the pleasure of being stuck in the dorms with this guy named Matt Fitch when I came to school in 1999," said Ben "Brightest Sol" Williams, lead singer and songwriter of the band. "We were roommates really out of fate. We started out jamming in the Santa Ana dorms."
Scott Darnell will be writing a series of columns pertaining to the political power players in the world, the United States and New Mexico today. His column will focus on the decisions they make. It's a triple dose in this column, as he tackles the good, the bad and the gutsy moves of Sen. Barack Obama, New Mexico Speaker Ben Lujan and Sen. John McCain.
The Lottery Success Scholarship fund will have an $18 million deficit by 2011 unless changes are made to the allocation of funding, according to a 2006 report by the Department of Higher Education.
The first nurse to earn a Ph.D. at UNM's nursing school said the reality of her accomplishment is still sinking in. Marie Mugavin earned the first doctorate from the College of Nursing this month, marking the end of a three-year effort. "I did a very intense project," she said. "I'm still coming down from that."
Online role-playing games, particularly those of the massive variety, require a lot of server space, a high-bandwidth connection and, most importantly, dedicated caretakers.
Students are often more technologically savvy than the people they are learning from, said Daniel Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina. "What I found talking to students at Carolina is they are much more in tune with technology futures than are often the professors and the staff and the leaders of the institution, because they see those trends early on," Reed said. "That's the place where you actually find what's going to take off."
Editor, I spend a lot of my time in the Lobo Lair of the SUB. The only people that spend more time there than my friends and I are the students working with NMPIRG. Every day, they have meetings with people from all over campus. They carry their table and banner out to go to talk to UNM students about important issues that they are working on, and they don't leave their office until 9 or 10 p.
As the University searches for a president and a replacement for regent Sandra Begay-Campbell, we should be thinking about what is best for the future of UNM and who will take us there. Running the University as if it were a business seems to be the regents' top priority.
Editor, It is becoming increasingly likely that some form of breakup will occur to the nation-state of Iraq. The breakup will reflect the relationships among Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish groups, and the relationships of these groups to the central government - which in turn have consequences on the region.
A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday after shooting at a police officer and taking a hostage in an apartment building near UNM, said Trish Hoffman, spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department. The incident ended with no injuries at about 2 p.m., when police entered the Kachina Apartments at 301 Harvard Drive S.E. and arrested Jay Ulibarri, Hoffman said.
Editor, I'm writing in response to the Daily Lobo article on Monday, "Students aim to start campus PIRG chapter." It seems to me that an organization that registers students to vote, helps inform them and then gets them out to the polls on Election Day is helping UNM students become responsible citizens.
Dirty Novels Pack Your Pistols Available Now If you are unfamiliar with the Albuquerque rock scene, allow me to introduce you to the Dirty Novels, a four-man band that will undoubtedly reach national acclaim. The band's album Pack Your Pistols is 10 tracks of pure spunk and glam. Formed back in 2002, ...
Come rain or shine, Bobby Shelton will sell his newspapers. Shelton, a Roswell, N.M., native who moved to Albuquerque in 1977, has sold newspapers outside the UNM Bookstore for the past 10 years. "It's to support my lifestyle - to just keep a roof over my head," he said.
Eric Sandine Sophomore Psychology Daily Lobo: How stoked are you to be in Albuquerque right now? ES: Not stoked. I grew up in Baltimore and D.C., and it was a lot more interesting. It was easy to hop a train into D.C. and go to the Smithsonian and the art galleries. DL: Have you been to the National ...
The UNM swimming and diving team planned to give its departing members a victory in its home finale. However, the visiting Utah Utes were unwilling to make any concessions on UNM's Senior Day.
The Institute of Public Law, a division of the UNM law school, requested $60,000 Saturday to start a UNM chapter of NMPIRG. The money would come from the Student Fee Review Board, which allocates money from student fees to UNM departments.
On Jan. 10, President Bush announced his new strategy for the war in Iraq. His plan calls for more troops in the area. Unfortunately, the use of more troops will have little effect on the war. Only more bodies will be added to the death toll. Instead of adding more troops, Bush should find more competent leaders for the forces already in Iraq.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Although UNM has made progress in sustainability by doing things like shutting down heat to several buildings during winter break, there is still work to be done, said Barbara Widhalm, coordinator of the Sustainability Studies program. "As a university, UNM has a lot of ...
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