Editor, I am writing in response to the letter by Shafeek Kubha, "Arafat's peace-keeping endeavors overlooked," in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. It is hard for me to comprehend the use of words such as "freedom fighter, a liberator and a man of integrity" to describe a man such as Yasser Arafat.
Editor, In his column, "Vouching for vouchers," in Wednesday's Daily Lobo, Dane Roberts speaks of "the impossibility of standardizing our public schools" and believes "the state shouldn't assume the task of defining how or what each kid should learn." Roberts imagines an ideal world in which principals could choose teachers who match their educational beliefs and teachers could focus on teaching kids.
by Daniel V. Garcia Daily Lobo Punk rock was a grass-roots form of music founded on a resolute and uncompromising do-it-yourself ethic. Since its inception, it has become as exploitable a form of music as hip-hop and rock. The obviousness of this achieves a new starkness as one views Green Day's CD/DVD, Bullet in a Bible.
by Sunnie Redhouse Daily Lobo Pointing to pictures of damaged livers, student Martin Carbajal said he saw how tobacco can affect a person's life. "It's pretty interesting, and it relates to my family," he said. Carbajal took part in the Great American Smokeout held by the Student Health Center on Wednesday.
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo You can say you don't like Kenny Chesney, John, but I know you're lying. The man who brought you "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" drops another 11 tracks of seamless, top-notch pop-country with his second album of the year, The Road and the Radio.
by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist I was walking in a straight line headed toward my Human Sexuality and Development class when I blundered upon a crowd in the midst of which stood a man holding a black sign and shouting. For some reason, the shouter singled me out and yelled, "You are headed straight to hell!" Why does everyone always want to yell at me? At first I wondered how he knew that I was headed to Psychology 231, and then I realized he meant hell as in eternal damnation.
by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo There are no plans to relieve traffic when UNM's Stanford entrance closes for the next two years starting Monday, said Clovis Acosta, director of Parking and Transportation Services. The entrance is one of two off Central Avenue and will be closed due to the construction of George Pearl Hall, which will house the School of Architecture and Planning.
by John Bear Daily Lobo JBOT, lead singer of Captured! By Robots - and its only human member - said he wouldn't go back to performing with humans, even if robots are mean to him. "When you're playing with humans, you're always curious if someone's going to be your bro," he said.
Editor, Monday morning was supposed to be a typical day for me. I woke up, got in my daily workout at Johnson Gym, and ended up at Frontier Restaurant for breakfast. What I learned while waiting for my usual order of Cheerios was that one of my favorite authors and American-Indian scholar, Vine Deloria Jr.
by John Bear Daily Lobo I would like to take a moment to thank my coworker, Joe, for choosing Kenny Chesney's latest effort, The Road and the Radio, for our first go-around. Now I can add pop-country fans to my ever-growing list of enemies. I am terribly afraid that the average Chesney fan is slightly more heavily armed than the average indie rocker kid.
by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo Construction of a new architecture building will begin Monday. George Pearl Hall will serve as a symbol of the University, said Roger Schluntz, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. "Its location is situated at a primary pedestrian entrance to the campus," Schluntz said.
by Matt Gomez Daily Lobo Fifty female high school students from Rio Rancho spent Wednesday shadowing UNM engineering students. Women in Science and Engineering, an organization that works to attract women to fields of science, engineering and mathematics, held its third Shadow a Wise Student Day.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Electronic music has more subgenres than just about any other style of music. There's the easy-to-remember stuff: techno and house, heard ubiquitously throughout America. It plays on commercials, at nightclubs and on the radio.
by Steven Fernandez Daily Lobo Oklahoma's high-powered offense was too much to handle, and UNM was handed its first loss of the season Wednesday night, 74-63. The 25th-ranked Sooners (3-0) knocked the Lobos (2-1) out of the semifinal round of the preseason Women's National Invitational Tournament at The Pit.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Buying art in a gallery can be expensive, but an art auction provides the same high-quality work at a lower price, said artist Karl Hofmann. Hofmann donated a piece of art to the Graduate Art Association's silent art auction with works donated by graduate students, faculty and alumni.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo If you combine the Bible and burlesque in the same sentence, people may get angry, said Frankie Flores. But this weekend's performance does just that, and Flores has a stage full of women in bustiers ready to show how bad the ladies of the Bible can really be.
Editor, Regarding the tribute to Yasser Arafat, I can say I can appreciate his overlooked endeavors. However, to say that signing the Camp David offer would have been a stab in the back is a glib simplification. Arafat simply rejected the offer. He did not counteroffer or put forth any proposals of his own.
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo I sat down to take a sober look at "Who Rules?" and regretted it immediately. "Who Rules?" is a trivia game that's played by answering multiple choice questions on your television. In the same vein as "You Don't Know Jack," the popular late '90s take on the video game quiz show, "Who Rules?" comes complete with a sassy host and some random questions.
by Sunnie Redhouse Daily Lobo Cassondra Malloy, a student at La Cueva High School, said her father is an engineer, but she still did not know exactly what he did. Attending the UNM's School of Engineering open house on Tuesday helped her understand. "Engineering is more diverse than people realize," Malloy said.
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