by Todd Burns Daily Lobo Imagine running 90 to 100 miles a week during summer vacation; think about purchasing eight to 10 pairs of running shoes a year - that is what it takes for UNM's Matt Gonzales to be ranked first in the nation. Gonzales, a junior on the UNM men's track team, qualified for the NCAA national track championships at a meet in Stanford earlier this year.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.
Editor, Today, the regents of the University of New Mexico will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Roberts Room of Scholes Hall to, among other things, set tuition for the 2003-04 academic year (about a 4.5 percent increase) and approve a recommended average percent salary increase (3 percent) for staff and faculty at UNM.
Davey Havok is the punk rock equivalent of Edgar Allen Poe. California’s AFI, or A Fire Inside if, to quote the Dude, “you’re not into the whole brevity thing,” has been kinetically summoning Halloween-spirited black mojo for over a decade. The band’s newest masterpiece, Sing the Sorrow, renews the dooming prescription developed by their previous albums The Art of Drowning and Black Sails in the Sunset.
Editor, Scott Darnell is a visionary. His eloquent description of the issues plaguing America today is only weakened by his reluctance to take his philosophy to its end. Followers of Darnell’s philosophy should first adopt a uniform dress so that they may be easily identified.
by Jodi Hunley Daily Lobo The Fair Trade Initiative, a UNM group advocating better treatment of farmers, said at a meeting on Monday that Aramark would begin serving Fair Trade Coffee on campus as soon as shipments arrived. Fair Trade coffee will be served at Dane Smith Hall and the SUB tent, said Brandt Milstein, the group’s president.
Editor, I woke up last Thursday morning and the first thing I heard was the question, “Did you guys see ‘poon’ written everywhere?” I knew already that this was certainly a more interesting morning than usual. Last Thursday, as I rose to attend my classes, I saw something juvenile; a 16 foot-tall “POON” written on the Zimmerman Library building’s front brick.
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (AP) — With Baghdad under siege, President Bush and ally Tony Blair discussed plans Monday for finishing off Saddam Hussein’s government and resolving differences over postwar Iraq. “The hostilities phase is coming to a conclusion,” said Secretary of State Colin Powell, accompanying Bush aboard Air Force One to this British territory with its own decades-old history of violence.
An American bomber struck a residential complex in Baghdad on Monday after U.S. intelligence received information that Saddam Hussein, his sons and other top Iraqi leaders might be meeting there, U.S. officials said. There was no immediate word on who might have been killed,..
BASRA, Iraq (AP) — British forces took control of the heart of Basra on Monday, met by few pockets of resistance and greeted by hundreds of people who shook their hands and welcomed them to Iraq’s second-largest city. Royal Marine commandos seized a vacant, pink-hued marble palace belonging to President Saddam Hussein.
Applications for the 2003 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, a week of workshops for beginning and advanced writers to sharpen their skills, are being accepted until April 15. Since its first year in 1999, the conference, sponsored by the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, has played host to more than 120 writers at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center in Taos to participate in writing workshops, public readings, writers’ panels and related special events.
by Dan Chan Daily Texan (U. Texas-Austin) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas — Doesn’t everyone hate it when their younger sibling plays the sympathy card to get out of trouble? Or when someone exaggerates a colossal disaster in an attempt to fight for a minuscule cause? Aren’t people perplexed when the gardener ignores the weeds and goes after the tulip? Apparently not.
Saxophone-playing jazz force Kenny Garrett’s musical presence is so strong it’s hard to picture him being a sideman to anyone. Perhaps having the opportunity to be jazz legend Miles Davis’ sideman is what gave him the power and confidence to deliver some of the jazz world’s freshest sounds.
The overly constraining terms “male” and “female” no longer suffice to define gender —not within the world of drag, at least. Friday night’s drag performance, sponsored by Del Otro Lado, UNM’s Gay and Straight Alliance, smashed societal boundaries regarding gender definition and the common fallacy that, in the drag world, only men dress up as women.
Border patrol takes more than 1,000 pounds of pot ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 1,300 pounds of marijuana were seized by border patrol agents during five separate traffic stops over the weekend. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the largest bust included 703 pounds of marijuana that was hidden in a load of frozen food being transported by a tractor-trailer.
An internationally known photographer and filmmaker who has won several awards for his films about American-Indian identity and representation will be conducting workshops and speaking about his work beginning today and continuing through Thursday.
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