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Event targets Hispanic voters

As part of Latino Education and Advocacy Day, organizations registered voters Monday and educated them about issues that will affect UNM students. UNM's Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan and the University chapter of the Public Interest Research Group, along with state organizations, were also collecting signatures for a petition to send to Rep. Heather Wilson, urging her to cut interest rates on loans and fully fund tuition-assistance programs like work study.

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Ludacris Release Therapy Available Now Apparently, haircuts are the newest trend in hip-hop. Following Busta Rhymes, who hacked off his dreadlocks to promote his latest release, Ludacris has done away with his cornrows and, apparently, taken on a more mature image. Granted, this isn't a Talib Kweli ...

Letter: Fight against tyranny must start in White House

Editor, For 230 years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died defending the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These rights are about to be taken away, not by the terrorists, but by our own government. Americans are too stupid, lazy and cowardly to stop it.

Student art, essays wanted

Best Student Essays is accepting entries and holding a cover-art competition for its fall 2006 issue.

Web site offers way to legally share CDs

Luke Nihlen, a UNM instructor, doesn't like iTunes, because the songs are hard to copy to CDs and MP3 players. He doesn't want to get sued for stealing music with peer-to-peer systems like Kazaa or Bittorrent. Instead, he gets about 10 CDs a week from the Web site Lala.com.

Pianist finds home performing at UNM

For UNM graduate student and pianist Makiko Kimura, the past year has been a disaster and a success. Kimura transferred to UNM from Loyola University in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She is a winner of the UNM 2006 Music Department Concerto Competition. Tonight, she will perform with the UNM Orchestra in its first concert of the season.

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Daily Lobo spotlight

Billy Edelman, Sophomore, Theater / Psychology Where are you from? My mother is from Ecuador, and I happened to be born there, but my father is American. He is from New York. I have dual citizenship. Why did you move? Sept. 11, 2001. Basically, my parents decided that we would probably be better ...

Letter: Shame on UNM for support of weapons developers

Editor, It is shameful enough that detainees in Iraq have had no rights and have been tortured without proof of complicity in terrorism. It is shameful enough that laws today allow people in this country, even legal immigrants and U.S. citizens, to be held without notification, habeas corpus or trial.

Column: American label signs 'biggest midget in the game'

While we may be two nations divided by a common language, no linguistic hang-ups could keep our British neighbors from rapping.

Police train staff to prevent crime

University employees are being trained by police to participate in crime prevention in the community. The training is part of the Eyes and Ears program that started over the summer to increase awareness in the community, said Lt. Pat Davis, spokesman for the UNM Police Department.

Letter: Cops handcuffed protester, let the real criminals walk

Editor, Were you at the SUB last Friday? If so, you must have seen the man in handcuffs, who UNM Police had thrown to the floor. And you must have seen the people in suits walk right past the police and out the front door with our money. Last Friday, on the second floor of the SUB, the people in suits, representatives of Sandia National Laboratories and other weapons developers, gave a presentation in which they tried to sell our University the idea of creating a new generation of nuclear weapons.

Letter: Iraq war puts freedom at stake, not just money

Editor, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid was sure to be a big hit with students when she said that the war defending our country is taking money away from colleges. Yes, the war does take government funding, but so do welfare, health care and interstate repairs.

Press building designed with efficiency in mind

The UNM Press opened its new building Friday with a ceremonial ribbon cutting done by its director, Luther Wilson. "The main advantage of the new building is its efficiency," Wilson said. "It was designed for our needs and purposes." Wilson said the new building cost $5.4 million.

letter: Cameras at intersections a useful public safety tool

Editor, There are now automated cameras to catch drivers running red lights and speeding throughout Albuquerque. Some have complained that this is unfair, because we all expect to break the law without penalty unless an officer is present. Let's get real.

Letter: A fetus is no less human than a developed adult

Editor, I am writing this in response to Damian Erasmus' letter about abortion in Thursday's Daily Lobo. First, I would like to establish the personhood of a fetus or embryo. Despite some people's opinions, there is no debate among the medical community that life begins at conception.

Sharpton encourages minorities to cast vote

The Rev. Al Sharpton, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, spoke to about 150 people on Saturday at the first conference of the Black Political Action Committee. Sharpton said he came to encourage all voters - particularly African-Americans and Hispanics - to exercise their right to vote. "We have an opportunity to come out in big numbers and make a difference this year," he said.

Homecoming helps University

by Jeremy Hunt and Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Student Heather King said she's not planning on participating in any homecoming events. "I'm not really sure what the point of homecoming is," she said. "There's a football game and a dance. It seems like something for high school." Tanya Skinner, co-chair ...

Letter: Oil, religious fanaticism justification for Iraq war

Editor, Cold wars are typically fought for an audience. They try to show that one country has more power and potency than another. In short, they try to make a point. This is the absurdity of the war in Iraq that President George Bush started. It is entirely a hot war, and the only audience is there on the ground at the other end of the guns and weapons.

Volleyball sees loss as a chance to learn

After defeating San Diego State on Friday night, the UNM volleyball team was unable to beat UNLV on Saturday for Jam Johnson night. Last year at Jam Johnson, the Lobos broke an 18-match losing streak against Colorado State University, but this year UNLV (12-5, 3-2 Mountain West Conference) controlled most of the match and defeated the Lobos (6-10, 2-3 MWC) in five games.