Lobos Basketball Tournament

Last year's success helps propel Lobos

UNM women's head soccer coach Kit Vela is ready for the five-year philosophy she has had to pay off starting Friday.

Lobo's work ethic rubs off

If Kristine Sweat can perform like she did in 2005, women's soccer fans may have something special to look forward to this year.

University offers freshmen opportunity to find own path

Freshman Memi Moore is loving her first week of college, she said. "I feel like I've been waiting for college my whole life," she said. "I was always superbored in high school, and I hated going to school. It was never any fun. It was always serious, serious, serious."

Letter: U.S. troops should protest their corrupt government

Of course we have to support the troops - the government is broke. I come from a military family. My brother-in-law just returned from Iraq. In 2002, we lost a very close friend in the war on terror, as Bush has called it. I wasn't trying to slag the troops. I was trying to slag these kids talking on their iPods.

Letter: Institute director acting according to job demands

Slinging mud without so much as a proper basis of facts is never conducive to a productive discussion of issues.

Daily Lobo asks you:

Ionia Collaros, Junior, Communications "I'd say no, because if it comes to sending our troops there, to make that happen, I'm in complete disagreement with that because I have brothers, cousins, all in Iraq right now, and we just want them to be here. So, I would say no. I don't think that the U.S. ...

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Regents plot to fill top spot

UNM is almost ready to begin searching for a new university president, said Susan Carkeek, vice president of human resources. The groundwork includes a consulting firm, a special advisor and more than 150 interviews with various campus constituencies, she said. The regents on the presidential search committee - Raymond Sanchez, Sandra Begay-Campbell and Mel Eaves - conducted interviews with the UNM community to find out what people want from the new president, Sanchez said.

College 101

Letter: Vehicle emissions as bad as secondhand smoke

How many more facts, figures, statistics and deaths does our society need in order to be convinced that vehicle emissions pose serious hazards, not only to the environment but also to our health?

Letter: Demographics of military mirror society as a whole

As a veteran, I found Brian Fejer's letter in the Aug. 23 Daily Lobo interesting to say the least, though it's obvious that he has never served in any of the U.S. armed forces. If he had, he would understand that the populations of these organizations have the same demographics as the population of the U.S. as a whole.

LoboWeb brings benefits, glitches

Before school started, student Megan Goodin received two notifications to pay her tuition prior to disenrollment on Aug. 11. One was sent through the mail and stated she owed $1,100. The other was sent to her LoboWeb account and stated she owed $5,900. Goodin said she chose to pay the lesser amount. As a result, she was disenrolled from all her courses.

Library to get makeover

The fire in the basement of Zimmerman Library was not all bad, said Nancy Dennis, assistant dean of University Libraries. "It does present some opportunities," she said. "The collection had to be moved out to replace the carpet, so we thought it would be a good time to remodel." When the first-floor reference area reopens mid-November, it will be significantly different than before the fire, she said.

Exhibit celebrates modernism's vitality

Jonathan Abrams is a veteran cardiologist at UNM's medical school, but he is also an art lover. Abrams is a self-described art groupie with numerous ties to the art world, a collector with a sizeable collection and the organizer and guest curator of "Painting - Alive and Well!" - an exhibit of eight artists that is on display at the UNM Art Museum.

Letter: Most soldiers are noble, the rest are put in jail

This letter is in response to Brian Fejer's opinion, which appeared in the Aug. 23 issue of the Daily Lobo. The military has not lowered its standards. I don't know how Fejer even thought of it. I'm a private first class in the Army, and standards are higher than ever. People with past criminal history cannot be recruited. On top of that, any members who are convicted in military court of rape, any hate crime or murder will be breaking rocks the rest of their lives in jail.

Letter: Black Panther co-founder not qualified to teach

I have read both the article in which appeared in the Aug. 21 Daily Lobo and the letter to the editor by Finnie Coleman that appeared Aug. 23, both about David Hilliard's appointment to UNM to teach two courses on the Black Panthers.

Column: Where the Buffaloe Roam

When life hands you lemons, sometimes you find out you really like lemons. Case in point: My car has been out of commission the past couple of weeks. But the silver lining to this very expensive, annoying cloud is that I've rediscovered my bicycle.

Ed toons

Letter: Lobo should question institute's absent director

I'm surprised at the lack of coverage the Daily Lobo has offered on the loss of two major grants by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. The emphasis of the coverage has been on the dollar amount the institute has lost under the new director, Cynthia Radding. But why not cover the prestige that not only the institute, but UNM as a whole has lost by losing its designation as an area studies center?

Artists show personal views

Three years ago, Rocky Norwell was walking Downtown when he stumbled upon the vacant building that would later become the Trillion Space. The multi-purpose gallery and studio located Downtown has provided many local artists with a place to create and showcase their work.