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Urging female leadership

The UNM Board of Regents received a petition Wednesday urging them to hire a woman as interim president of the University. Gail Houston, director of UNM's Women Studies Program, said they collected 275 signatures from students, faculty and staff who want to see a female head of state on campus.

The honest face of racism

As a passionate young teacher working with at-risk teens, I taught myself to practice non-judgment and to avoid stereotyping people based on the color of their skin. Naively, I thought I would change the world this way, one student at a time. What I wasn't prepared for was the attitudes and emotions that had been handed down generation after generation that my students now carried with them like a mantra.

Letter: Outsourcing ports means leaders have sold out U.S.

Editor, The only objection I have to outsourcing 21 ports in the United States to the state-owned corporation Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates isn't that they're Arab, but that American-owned companies should be running the ports. I guess the United States has fallen into such decline ...

Singer reaches new level with R&B ghetto classics

The ghetto is perhaps one of the most defining things in America's urban culture. It is here that many artists develop muses in one of the many genres of art, whether it is in poetry, theater, painting, or in the case of New Brunswick, N.J., native Jaheim, in music.

Tough defense scores win

by Andre van der Merwe Daily Lobo On a night when the Lobos struggled to put together any type of offense, their defense bailed them out. The UNM men's basketball team (17-11, 8-7 MWC) duked it out defensively against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (15-12, 9-6 MWC) Wednesday night at The Pit ...

Dancers step to their own beat

Combine spoken word, hand clapping and hard stepping, and you get Step Afrika. Stepping is a dance tradition created by African-American college students. The tradition grew out of rituals practiced by fraternities and sororities in the early 1900s.

Column: Give Bono the silly prize, maybe he'll stop making music

I have thought long and hard about this - almost an hour and a half. Give Bono the Nobel Peace Prize. For one, it will motivate him to do more charity work and make less music.

College 101

Column: Houston Texans crazy to toss Reggie Bush aside

The Houston Texans must have some kind of sick hatred for their fans. As the NFL Draft approaches, the league's worst franchise is considering trading away the No. 1 overall pick. Houston, we have - well, you know.

Scholarship has 30th anniversary

by Mark Schaaf Daily Lobo Regent Don Chalmers said donating to the Presidential Scholarship is a good investment. "It is a wonderful feeling," Chalmers said. "They are successful here and we know they are going to be successful when they leave here." The Presidential Scholarship Program provides ...

Happy Birthday UNM

Column: NFL Draft decisions could be as bad as player's Wonderlic test scores

By leaps and bounds, the most tragic and absurdly ludicrous story that came out of the weekend's NFL Combine was Vince Young's supposed six on the Wonderlic test.

Column: Bad decisions surround draft, prospective players

Who wakes up and says to themselves, "Today I'm going to make a brainless decision?" Not most people. However, come draft day, there definitely will be more than one team thinking it.

Lobo brushes off NFL Draft advice

ESPN's NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. has one person who's not listening to what he has to say. Former UNM football wide receiver Hank Baskett said he's not sweating what any of the draft experts are throwing out there as the NFL Combine finished Tuesday.

Letter: Muslims today treated like the oppressed in history

Editor, We've just passed Black History Month. Each year, Americans proudly reflect on the history of African-Americans, their accomplishments and the challenges they faced against the likes of bigotry and intolerance. We should proudly remember the previous generations that had to take on the ...

Letter: Nation should heed past prophets of civil rights

Editor, Nations guilty of the most horrific crimes have also produced the greatest prophets. This is no coincidence. Prophets speak to the conscience of a people. Their words are deliberately blunt and uncompromising, condemning injustice, addressing the perpetrators directly and calling them by ...

Letter: Braggart can't get play in life, shouldn't in paper

Editor, Mikhayla Harrell's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo hit it on the nose. I went back to the Feb. 23 edition of the Lobo and read the article in question, "Maximum mischief." I assume the reader with the right sense of humor could enjoy wallowing around inside Tucker Max's own fascinated version ...

ROTC holds drive for Iraqi kids

Matt Gerety has high expectations for the compassion and charity of people on campus. Gerety, general military course adviser, is the organizer for Operation Iraqi Children, a semester-long drive for school supplies for Iraqi children.

UNM offers internships in D.C.

UNM is giving undergraduates the opportunity to participate in a congressional internship program in Washington, D.C., this fall.