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Column: E-40's skills gone to waste, beats and lyrics lack creativity

I remember my senior year of high school, when I took a blow-off class called History of Rock, Pop and Jazz. One day the teacher said rap wasn't music. He also wondered out loud if there would ever be a classic, legendary rock band again, like Foreigner or Journey. This alone made me hate rock 'n' roll in all of its pathetic lameness forever and pray rap could fill this new void in my life.

Column: Having once scoffed at E-40, lastest effort deserves acclaim

I spent a great deal of my high school days loitering around a local arcade/den of iniquity which I had the pleasure of watching burn down a few Thanksgivings ago.

38 compete for votes in ASUNM race

There are more candidates in this year's ASUNM spring election than either the 2004 or 2005 elections. Three students are running for president, three for vice president and 32 for senate - 27 people ran for office in 2005's spring election and 14 in 2004.

Folk master holds nothing back

The legacy of folk music is the story of the common man, or woman.

Ed Toons

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Column: Value of foreign recruits

Recent coverage and editorial comments in the Albuquerque Journal and other papers have suggested that leaders in higher education in New Mexico have no business recruiting foreign students to attend state-funded universities.

KUNM breathes life into airwaves

John Strader wants to bring the art of live music back to the radio.

Letter: Bush's public relations talent masks his motives

I am requesting a few minutes of your time to consider the validity of my interpretation of the meaning of two of George Bush's statements, and the answer to two questions that come into my mind from time to time:

ASUNM passes spring budget

ASUNM unanimously approved its spring 2006 budget of $522,167 Tuesday night. Andrea Roussel, chairwoman of the finance committee, said she was happy with the final budget.

Building a flying bomb for peace

Not only scientists can build atomic bombs. Albuquerque-based artist and UNM alumnus Chad Person thinks differently. Satirizing the U.S. government's idea of building "more usable" nuclear weapons, such as bunker busters, he has designed what he calls the world's first passenger atomic bomb.

Discussing women in Islam

There are misconceptions regarding the status of women in Islam, said Ihab El-Kady, an associate professor at UNM. El-Kady was invited by the Muslim Student Association to present the lecture "Position of Women in Islam" in the SUB on Tuesday. About 20 students attended.

Solid music makes up for gimmicks

Sometimes a band has a rather lame gimmick that borders on idiotic. In the case of Hypatia Lake - and this is saying nothing about their long-winded song titles - the gimmick is snotty and pretentious. It almost made me break the monitor on my computer.

Graduation speeches fail to make grade

The best part of any graduation speech? When it finally ends. I don't know about you, but I've always found graduation speeches pointless. If they told you exactly where to go to find a job in your field, then maybe someone would get some use out of them. But generally they consist of some old, successful person gabbing for 15 minutes while delaying the post-graduation parties.

Letter: Bush's actions constitute resignation or impeachment

The House of Representatives was seriously considering impeaching President Nixon before he resigned for his criminal involvement in the Watergate scandal. Then it unjustifiably voted to impeach President Clinton - without indictable grounds - for lying about his illicit affair. So why hasn't the House introduced a bill of impeachment against President Bush?

Letter: Students have other bills to pay besides UNM's

First, I would like to thank you for your coverage of the upcoming Budget Summit in Monday's Daily Lobo, and the proposed tuition hike of at least 5.3 percent.

Column: Snakes do not belong on planes

Hollywood is a strange place. There's no denying that with the amount of plastic surgery patients, bizarre religions and sequels to "Big Momma's House" that float around Hollywood, once and a while the absolute craziest of the crazies will rise to the top.

Column: Flamboyant Bowie in bargain bin

I've always had trouble placing music in categories.

Scales of lyrical madness

Ghostface Killah returns with another noisy, definitively Wu-Tang record, Fishscale. And I cannot, for the life of me, understand a word of it.

Panel seeks to curb underage drinking

American pop culture has influenced the overconsumption of alcohol among college students, said health educator John Steiner. "People look at college as the fountain of beer or party central," said Steiner, of the UNM Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention.