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Talib Kweli flirts with stardom

Talib Kweli doesn't want to be famous. At least that's what the veteran New York rapper would have you believe.

Simple measures can trim fat off obesity epidemic

Editor, According to a recent CNN report, 60 percent of American adults are seriously overweight. Also, 17 percent of American children are overweight. This is quite evident here in New Mexico. Obesity seems to originate from a lack of physical activity, not from gluttony.

Flea market offers a cornucopia of good investments

With the oh-so-joyous holiday season in gear, it's time I got serious about shopping. After a six-month hiatus, I decided to spend a morning at the flea market, where the merchandise seems endless, and the prices are never what they appear to be. If you are a skilled haggler, a few hours at the flea market could be a good investment.

Daily Lobo spotlight

Michael Chavez Lauren Buerkle Freshmen Mechanical engineering 19 Dating How long have you been dating? Chavez: Not very long, maybe a month. Buerkle: Yeah. How did you meet? Chavez: She was lost in Johnson (Center), and I helped her find her way out. She asked me how I get out of here, ...

Festival has its roots in culture

Kwanzaa is celebrated every year at UNM, but this year the name of the event was changed to the Winter Roots Festival.

21st straight win in rivalry

When Don Flanagan was hired as the UNM women's basketball coach in 1995, one of the most important tasks was to beat New Mexico State as much as possible.

Editorial: NYPD's officers should think before they shoot

Boy, Mos Def is going to have a heyday with this one. As 23-year-old Sean Bell was buried on Saturday in Queens, N.Y., another African-American family mourned the loss of a son, father and what was a soon-to-be husband gunned down by the New York Police Department in the most completely absurd amount of bullets - 50 - on Nov. 25.

Tradition still hanging on

More than 13,000 paper bags filled with sand and candles covered campus Friday, as faculty, staff and students sang holiday carols. The luminarias, carols and a tour of campus were part of one of the University's oldest traditions, Hanging of the Greens. The journey around campus ended in front of the president's house, where students presented President David Harris with a wreath. The tradition began in 1935. The Mortar Board Senior Honor Society has organized the event since the 1950s.

Ed toons

Citizens shouldn't have to fund immoral research

Editor, This is to address the issue of embryonic stem cell research, which Gov. Richardson wants to fund with state money. I think there are moral ramifications involved here. First of all, Richardson believes this research does not pose a pro-life issue.

Kiss on, but watch for sores

by Peggy Spencer Daily Lobo columnist Dear Dr. Peg, Is there an unusually high number of people at UNM with cold sores or oral herpes? It seems that they are everywhere, and I am afraid that I will come down with lip sores like that. I have never had one.

Game plan pays off as UNM stonewalls

Keep the Aggies from crashing the offensive boards. That's the advice UNM women's basketball head coach Don Flanagan gave to his players in the week leading up to the game against New Mexico State.

U.S. doesn't have a right to tell others what to do

Editor, Tuesday's Daily Lobo featured a letter and a column that suffered from the same simplistic delusion - that the U.S. has some sort of God-given right to tell the entire world how to live and govern itself. In a letter, Damian Erasmus said, "We need a radically different foreign policy - a policy that upholds American self-interest on moral principle.

Democrats' plans for the future must be addressed

Editor, I would like to pose a question to your readers because I consider your paper to reach the largest amount of educated people in the area. The Democrats won the 2006 midterm elections. What now? Will they unleash a sweeping socialist plan to revitalize the safety net and further sink the nation deeper into debt? I did vote blue, but not because I liked the Democratic agenda.

UNM eager to test skills in first game on the road

The UNM men's basketball team has been unbeatable at The Pit so far this season. The Lobos will finally get a test of what they can do on the road when they head to Texas to take on the University of Texas-El Paso on Sunday.

Lobos say rivalry still alive

When a team defeats another in 20 straight games, it can hardly be called a rivalry. Still, when the UNM women's basketball team hosts the New Mexico State Aggies on Saturday, Lobo players are calling it a big deal.

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Ryan Schotter Freshman Premedical "I think you should concentrate more on the stuff you learned all semester. Anything they (instructors) want to present, they should have presented earlier in the semester." Nick London Junior Criminology "I don't think that it's a big deal. It'd be saying ...

Literacy enhances community

Parents and teachers at Dolores Gonzales Elementary School attribute student success and community enhancement to the UNM College of Education's Family Literacy Program. The program is designed to help parents and students who are mostly Spanish-speaking develop literacy skills in order to improve their educational experience.

Video games bring joy to sick children's lives

Editor, I support Child's Play, the charity through which one can donate video games, among other things, to sick children. Sick children deserve to have a little joy in their lives, and if giving them a game or toy does that, it is a good thing. People like to say that video games and gaming consoles are wrong and evil, but they need to look at the deeper picture and see the fact that they are helping sick children have fun, and that they need that.

Former Lobo 'Still Kicking'

Turning her life story into a book has been a bittersweet experience for Katie Hnida. "It's kind of nice to have my story out there in my own words, because so much has been misreported, and people have all these opinions and different things," she said. "It's good to have it out there. It's kind of funny to have your life story out there and all these things that are so personal, but at the same time, it is really good."