We are all hypocrites, every last one of us. Every person in every country of the world has been guilty of not following his or her word. This is human nature - nothing more and nothing less. However, hypocrisy can take a violent spin toward becoming overwhelmingly negative.
Despite his death in 2003, Johnny Cash has remained a fixture in American culture and, arguably, is more popular than ever before.
Jumping out of an airplane is easier than it looks. "I took a class, then jumped the next day," said Claire Hilleary, graduate student and skydiver.
When Michael Stokes walks around UNM, it's a bit like a band member walking through a guitar store - for every person he sees talking with friends, he sees a person with an instrument.
Editor, This is a brief response to Jason Darensburg's letter published in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo. He was not very fair in generalizing that "college is mostly for rich kids with no value system." I am originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, and this assumption does not apply to me.
Editor, When I was a boy in the early '50s, my family lived in student housing at New Mexico A & M - now NMSU - in Las Cruces. My best buddy and next door neighbor was Charles Madrid, whose little sister, Patricia, is running for our nation's Congress. Over the years, I have watched the Madrid family build itself a good and successful working-class American life through their own hard work, intelligence, education, courage, honesty and family solidarity.
Editor, In response to Dave Bergeron's letter to the editor in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Lobo, I would refer him - and President Bush for that matter - to the words of the great wartime leader, Harry Truman. In his farewell address to the American people, Truman stated that "the president - whoever he is - has to decide.
Members of Urban Exiles don't walk around buildings. "We go over and through," Tad Turpen said. Turpen and UNM student John Whitmore are active members of Urban Exiles, a local parkour group. Parkour is a French street sport that involves leaping from building to building, balancing on railings and scaling walls.
The SUB's game room is going in a new direction - toward an older model of entertainment, said Walt Miller, associate vice president for student development. The room will focus on pool instead of video games, he said. TechSmith managed the room from August 2005 to July 2006. The company removed arcade games and an air hockey table and replaced them with Xboxes and computers.
Last week in "My Strange New Mexico," we explored the short-lived Placitas, N.M., hippie communes of the 1960s and '70s.
Last year, the UNM Board of Regents approved a $125 million bond issue for construction across the main and branch campuses. Joe Brawley, interim director of the Office of Capital Projects, said the buildings will have a positive impact on the University. "Generally speaking, we have a lot of projects going on that, when they are completed, will be a benefit to all students and faculty," he said.
The UNM Health Sciences Center is searching for subjects for at least 30 studies, according to the Web site. Vanessa, a participant in a study for a vaccine for human papilloma virus, or HPV, was happy with the program, she said. "I get free Pap smears, free birth control, and they are nice," she said.
Wal-Mart has spent the last few years in the public bull's-eye. Some claim Wal-Mart is being attacked simply because it is the biggest retailer with the highest profits. Although being the biggest comes with much more public scrutiny - and thus more responsibility to be socially aware - being the best is not necessarily a corporate death sentence in our capitalism-loving society. However, the case against Wal-Mart does in fact have strong points.
It's hard to find a good action movie these days. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a good action star, for that matter. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor made a concerted effort to revive the genre when they wrote and directed "Crank." Unfortunately, "Crank" doesn't quite measure up. The film is not particularly bad in any one area - it simply fails to shine.
UNM graduate student and photographer Sam McFarlane said there is something about white. "It looks sexual and beautiful against the black background," he said.
Linda Atkinson, director of DWI Resource Center, said it reflects poorly on UNM to have a lobbyist charged with DWI. "I don't think it is the type of legacy you want," she said. Marc Saavedra, UNM's government relations director, was arrested on charges of aggravated DWI on Aug. 30, according to a criminal complaint. He failed field sobriety tests and refused to take a blood-alcohol test, according to the complaint. Saavedra's arraignment is Sept. 14, according to court documents. He was released Friday, according to court documents. His bail was set at $5,000, but he was released on recognizance, which means the bail was waived, according to the court. Saavedra and his attorney did not return phone calls Tuesday. David Harris, acting UNM president, released a statement Friday. "The justice process has to be followed and completed," he said in the statement. "This is a regrettable incident as Mr. Saavedra is a valued employee. We are taking this matter very seriously; we are looking into it and will take appropriate action once we know more." Susan McKinsey, University spokeswoman, said UNM will wait for a verdict before taking any action. "The justice system will have to work its way through, and after that, it will become a personnel issue," she said. "Then I won't be able to say anything about it." Saavedra pleaded guilty to aggravated DWI in 1997, according to court documents. Atkinson said the charges might make it harder to recruit students to UNM. "As a higher education institution, it wants to attract students not just from around New Mexico, but from around the country," she said. "If they know the lobbyist has been arrested for the second time for (charges of) DWI, it decreases the credibility of the institution."
Editor, Thanks for the article in the Aug. 29 Daily Lobo exposing proposed federal budget cuts that would eviscerate student work-study and Pell Grant programs. However, Kathleen O'Keefe, interim director of student financial aid, did not adequately address the way the proposed cuts will affect UNM students.
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