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Local novelist nominated for book award

by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Lisa Lenard-Cook has always been a writer, she said. "They tell me when I was a little girl, I was picking up a pen before I could talk," she said. Lenard-Cook has been nominated for the first annual Southwest Book Award in fiction for her novel Dissonance.

Remembering a man of service

by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Beth Gattas-Waskow said when her father applied to be the first director of Parking and Transportation Services during the Vietnam War, he was asked a strange question. "When he was interviewed for the job, they asked if he was worried about his house being bombed," she said.

Checking art show off the old to-do list

by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Artist Jim Kraft, 67, said he made a list of things he wants to do before he dies, and putting on an art show is one of them. His show at the Harwood Art Center is one of five on display. "I don't know if it's my last. I may do another one," he said.

Column: Sex, drugs and chocolate

by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist Chocolate has always been associated with sex. Some scientists have suggested that chocolate acts like a drug as well, with both inebriating and positive health effects. Chocolate contains more than 300 chemicals. Plenty more research needs to be done before we have a clear idea about how chocolate works on the body, but a few things have been examined.

Destined for rock scrapyard

by Scott Albright Daily Lobo Institute - the side project of Bush's Gavin Rossdale - has a new album, Distort Yourself, which reeks of broken-down technological junk thrown into the scrapyard of bad rock. Songs like "Information Age" give the impression that instead of using a guitar, the band decided to connect an old defibrillator into a broken fax machine to create a painful mixture of high-pitched twangs.

Letter: Professor's dismissal shows UNM doesn't value education

Editor, It is shocking and disappointing that Richard Berthold's request to teach an Honors seminar was shot down by UNM's terror squad of bureaucracy. I have to say, though, it's not surprising. While no one is willing to provide legitimate answers as to why, UNM student and Chairman of the Reagan Freedom Society of New Mexico Bob Cornelius speculated in the Daily Lobo that the University is a business and Berthold is a liability.

Alumni to take over Hodgin Hall

by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo The UNM Alumni Association no longer has to share Hodgin Hall. Karen Abraham, director of alumni relations, said they have waited a long time for the decision. "All along, for the last 22, 23 years, it has been intended that the building would be called the alumni center," Abraham said.

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Berthold: UNM limits free speech

by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo Richard Berthold said the needs of UNM's administration trump those of students by not letting him return to the University to teach. "And more sadly, the faculty is once more permitting an administrator to dictate to an academic department who they can and cannot hire," he said in an e-mail Monday.

Letter: Hurricane was God's way of saying 'Stop whining'

Editor, I am writing in response to Will Veeder's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo about Bush and his administration's reaction to Hurricane Katrina. First of all, the fact that New Orleans did not receive any federal funding to repair the levees is irrelevant.

Letter: Objections to Berthold reek of McCarthyism

Editor, I find it ironic that Ryan Brightbill, founder of the Reagan Freedom Society, feels comfortable defining what constitutes treason. While Berthold's comments regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon were, without question, tasteless, asserting that his commentary rises to the level of treason reeks of a neo-McCarthyist if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us mentality.

Band's 3rd CD is most diverse yet

by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Taproot proves you can teach an old dog new tricks. With their third album, Blue-Sky Research, members of Taproot have learned new ways to expand the possibilities of their instruments and voices. The structures of each song flow together with better skill.

Letter: ACLU's action attacks a positive relationship

Editor, Despite J.R. Giddens' comments regarding his religious association with Ritchie McKay, any promotion of religion McKay may have committed was welcomed and in the context of a personal conversation. His mother's comment that McKay wants to get Giddens into church and it was mandatory to go to church can be disregarded, since McKay was stupefied by the comment and no one close to the team has made any similar claims.

Play provokes and disturbs

by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Leigh-Ann Santillanes, the director of "Orphans," first saw the play 15 years ago and was immediately drawn to it. "There was something about it that was so tremendously beautiful," she said. At the Vortex Theatre, Santillanes and her cast have created a production of tremendous beauty - a strange, sad beauty that is more unsettling than uplifting.

Letter: Country reveals greed in griping over Katrina's cost

Editor, My mother-in-law is from a little town northwest of New Orleans, far enough away to have been spared the full brunt of Hurricane Katrina but close enough to witness the masses of people, many of them young children, streaming away without anything to their name.

Letter: Forcing religious beliefs encourages intolerance

Editor, I see many people debating the McKay issue, and in Monday's Daily Lobo, I saw several people even defending McKay's actions. I ask these people, or any good Christian who condones this type of behavior - using the basketball court as a pulpit or a coaching position as a preaching position - what would you do if McKay were a Muslim preaching Islam and the word of Allah? What if the Lobo football coach forced Judaism onto the players, forcing them to accept his religion in exchange for time on the field? The problem with religion is everyone thinks their religion is the right one.

Pop album destroys brain cells

by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo I didn't know they made home lobotomy kits. But A&M Records did in the form of a poorly produced album by the Pussycat Dolls. Their debut - and hopefully only - record was released on Sept. 13, about three months after the single "Don't Cha" first burned holes into our eardrums with incessant radio play.

Letter: McKay's conduct reflects his destructive religion

Editor, I am amazed to see the sheer ignorance and blatant disregard for the principles upon which this country is founded exhibited by letters to the editor by Ulrike Visser and Lindsay Holloman. Both wrote in to support coach McKay against accusations levied by the ACLU suggesting he uses his position as coach to preach religion to his players.