Daily Lobo: What do you do as the president of the regents? JK: The president of the Board of Regents presides at all meetings of the board and appoints committee chairs and members. The Board of Regents is responsible for the governance of the University. This responsibility includes fiduciary responsibility ...
It was impossible to find a seat at Scalo Northern Italian Grill Monday night. The crowd was there to see trumpet player Justin Ray perform for the release party of his self-titled debut album.
A new festival will be jazzing up New Mexico for the next two weeks. There will be performances in Albuquerque as well as Santa Fe, said Tom Guralnick, founder of the New Mexico Jazz Festival and executive director of Outpost Productions.
The UNM men's basketball team will be looking to fill an empty roster spot after one of last year's players decided not to return for the 2006-07 season.
In a telling statement on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton urged "all parties" in the escalating conflict in the Middle East to "accept the principle that governments must exercise sovereign control over their territories." If only U.S. and Israeli leaders adhered to their own pronouncements, the Middle East would not be facing its biggest disaster in a quarter century.
A shuttle that runs from UNM Hospital to the New Mexico Rail Runner Express opened July 14.
Carson Bennett has been creatively stuck. Bennett is a graduate student at UNM and writes creative nonfiction and personal essays. Every year, he seeks rejuvenation at the Taos Summer Writers' Conference.
Academics and athletics don't always go hand in hand. But for one UNM athlete, they came together just fine last season.
UNM has done it again - screwing over its students in the name of profit. Parking fees have increased across the board, and now the only places where any student can park are the South Lot and the Zia Lot. Every other lot has been restricted to certain minority groups of students, with the rest of us left to scramble for alternatives.
According to the Mountain West Conference preseason poll, the UNM football team is not one of the top teams in the league this year.
High Tech High, a math and science charter school affiliated with UNM, is getting a new name and a building on UNM's campus.
I am a steward for the Communications Workers of America Local 7011 and was on the bargaining committee that negotiated raises for UNM employees this year. People keep complaining to me that they do not see the raises they got this year, at least not in the form of real money.
Although the majority of faculty at UNM's business school voted 'no confidence' in the dean earlier this month, Charles Crespy remains confident in his leadership.
Does it make sense from any standpoint to destroy embryonic stem cells instead of using them for the potential benefit of us all?
Tim Cass, a former tennis player and head coach at UNM, will be returning to the University this fall. Athletic Director Paul Krebs announced Monday that Cass will take over as the senior associate director of athletics at UNM on Aug. 1. Cass is replacing Conrad Colbert, who retired in June.
Fans in New Mexico will now have the chance to watch a variety of Mountain West Conference football games on television, starting with the 2006 season.
Some students are upset about a new parking permit and fine increase that went into effect July 10. Julie Rannou was one of them. "I'm just kind of outraged because the University isn't offering better services, but prices are always going up," she said. "It's hard for students who work on a budget. If the prices went up $2 or $3 that would be OK, but $25 is kind of steep."
UNM announced Wednesday that there are several ticket changes for the 19-game men's basketball 2006-07 season. Those changes include a drop in student ticket prices. Student tickets are now $5 per game and $75 per season. That's $29 less per season than last year. Students can buy up to two guest passes for $150 each - a $58 decrease from last year's price of $208. Last year, students could only buy one guest pass.
The 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star game went down as one of the best All-Star games I have ever seen, and not just because the American League rallied to win 3-2.
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