Ethics reform should be an important issue in the upcoming election if it meets certain criteria. The idea of ethics reform would have to be in a state of controversy, a vital or unsettled matter, under discussion or in dispute. So, it would seem that ethics reform is an issue.
One day left. One thought lingering - inexperience. The 108th season of UNM football opens Saturday as the Lobos host the Portland State University Vikings at University Stadium. UNM returns just 35 lettermen and is testing a new offense and a slightly different defense, as well as dealing with some changes in the coaching staff.
Editor, I became a new mom last March. Having a daughter has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. There are hundreds of mothers here on campus with infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for at least the first year.
Editor, I was at the memorial service last Saturday when the late Ferrel Heady, former UNM president, was eulogized. It was fitting and proper that the Daily Lobo covered the event in Monday's issue. I am privileged to know Heady and his noble qualities, and thus would like to echo all the other voices of admiration and add a few words of my own.
On the West Side of Albuquerque lies a treasure unknown to many. Fallas Paredes, a discount clothing outlet, carries a variety of clothing, shoes and house dÇcor at insanely low prices.
When the weather warms, birds fly north along the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico - swooping over the picketed steel towers on the mountains' highest point, gliding up the mountains' gray granite spine, dropping down the mountains' northern end and coming to rest among the green desert foothills of the village of Placitas.
I feel like I'm living the novel 1984 as I watch Bush puffing, strutting and dominating the headlines on the anniversary of one of the most complete failures of government since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Keith Johnstone, owner of Corrales Winery, said there is nothing magical about making wine. "They've been doing this for 6,000 years," he said. "How complicated can it be?"
Lunch meat - for many, the plastic crackle that comes with the first rent of bright yellow packaging is the harbinger of the new semester. Time to brown bag it for another four months.
It doesn't take a geologist to appreciate rocks these days.
UNM's Employee Health Promotion Program announced the winners of its Biggest Loser Challenge on Wednesday.
Smiley faces, fish, suns and many other stickers were used to decorate medical devices and reduce patients' fear of them, according to a study done by researchers at UNM's Health Sciences Center.
Student Jo Fanelli starts most of her semesters at UNM with a walk around the communication and journalism building to chat with professors she knows from her years of taking classes in the department.
1970-present UNM avoided most of the protesting and unrest other schools went through during the 1960s, according to Miracle on the Mesa, a history of the University written by former UNM president William Davis.
I was greatly dismayed to see the front-page photo of two UNM students sharing a hookah full of strawberry-flavored tobacco in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. Using this photo as filler in the same fashion the Lobo runs pictures of students playing Frisbee, skateboarding or sharing a meal in the SUB serves to reinforce the commonly held misperception that hookah smoking is an innocuous activity.
1930-1970 World War II had upsides and downsides, said Ellen Ryan, a UNM student from 1941 to 1944. For example, classes were offered year round, so military personnel could graduate faster and serve in the war, she said. "We had semester classes all through the calendar year. We just kept right on going," she said. "And who wouldn't with all those men on campus?" Most male students were involved with the military, either as returning veterans or as members of training programs, such as ROTC or the Navy V-12 program, according to Miracle on the Mesa, a history of UNM written by former University president William Davis. "This time was not without its trauma and its sad side," Ryan said. "So many of the men we knew had to leave for the war, and we did have casualties. We were so happy when people came back." The personal lives of students reflected the wartime stress, she said. "It was a romantic time. People were living on the edge of disaster. You didn't know if your boyfriend would be coming back, or your husband, or your father or your uncle," she said. "On the day when all the men in ROTC received their commissions, I went to four weddings. Everybody had to get married before the men went off and did something and got shot."
UNM student Cori Hoover received her first tarot card reading this week. "I always wanted to," she said. "I didn't have anything to do, and I thought I would try it out."
UNM students with an affinity for the stage or the writing of Ray Bradbury might want to consider a visit to the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Beginning Aug. 31, the acclaimed New Mexico acting troupe Teatro Nuevo MÇxico will be at the center nightly until Sept. 3, performing a version of Ray Bradbury's "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit."
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