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How to lose that guy

Why would you want to lose a guy in 10 days? Only if he's stalking you, or really butt ugly. There just so happens to be an instructional book with specific methods on how to lose a guy. The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson is based on this book, but thank the screenwriters for coming up a better plot.

UNM Honors program to present innovative speaker

Staff Report Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an authority on the psychology of creativity, will present a free lecture titled "The Creative Person and the Creative Context," today. Csikszentmihalyi, director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.

New book clarifies Hebrew

Staff Report UNM Religious Studies Professor Emeritus Shlomo Karni, has spent the last four years compiling data for a book of common Hebrew words and terms used in the Bible. The book, titled Dictionary of Basic Biblical Hebrew, which will be published by Carta, The Israel Map & Publishing Company, will be an essential tool for students interested in uncovering the deeper meaning of the Old and New Testaments, Karni said.

Coalition calls for poetic peace

Last night poets of all shapes and colors performed at R.B. Winning Coffee Co. as part of the Poets For Peace demonstration that is a nationwide response to Laura Bush's cancellation of a poetry reading at the White House. "Poetry and the American Voice" was to be a reading of works by poets Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and others.

Listen Hard proves pop stardom overrated

If emotional, erotic and ear-appeasing tunes are your thing, than Melissa Ferrick's new album Listen Hard may just be your ticket to aural ecstasy. The album is the ninth release that the acoustic-guitar Girl Wonder has put out in the last 10 years -- pretty impressive according to my calculations.

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by Jacque Oldfield and Amanda Jackson Daily Lobo Love is easily the most notorious condition known to man. Throughout time, no higher good or greater evil deeds have been done in the name of love. Resistance is futile and no one is immune. Unrequited, ill-advised or uninhibited, people can't seem to avoid falling in.

Daily Lobo Valentine's Haikus

Kenn Rodriguez Contributing Writer if loving you is So wrong, I wanna be 1+1=3 Our love: a barrel Going over a cliff Wrapped in bubble wrap Loving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful and because you smell good Laura Mann Photo Editor Love your spots and your eyes But most expecially Your smooth, hot pink thighs Nathan Jacquez Reporter Erin the most fair Your eyes make me love my life You are my true love My heart bleeds a lot Warm gushing blood inside me Yearns to be with you The Daily Lobo is The daily slave to the grind With love from Nathan Ryan Floersheim Assistant News Editor Gotta be creative With only three fuckin' dollars But pockets full of pride My life seems futile Valentines day makes it worse At least I'm high Jeff Proctor Reporter My policy? No Girlfriend means no sap on Val- entines day.

LETTER: UNM should offer Chicana/o Studies

Editor, While I find the editorial debates surrounding Chicana/o Studies intriguing, at the same time I find them quite disturbing. In the past week, both Chicana/o and non-Chicana/o students, alumni and community members have exerted pressures on the University to rework the internal and external faults of Chicana/o Studies and the University's responsibility to Chicana/o students.

SPECIAL SECTION: Career Services help students find a niche

UNM's undergraduate Career Services has helped about 3,700 students since July 2002 find a major, find a job and foster skills employers are looking for. Also, since July, 2,125 new employers have posted job listings with Career Services. "It's a real high working with students and giving them the skills they need to get a job they want," said Jenna Sultemeier, one of the six career development facilitators at Career Services.

SPECIAL SECTION: Lab allows online guidance

by Cindy Lewis Daily Lobo Students having trouble finding job listings on the Internet or writing rÇsumÇs now have a place to go. The Career Resource Lab, located in the Career Services Center, is a state of the art computer pod that opened last October.

LETTER: Students: use your education for good

Editor, On Feb. 13 and 14, Los Alamos National Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories, along with the U.S. Department of Energy -- the department that employs its services as producers of weapons of mass destruction -- will be actively recruiting students at a job fair at UNM.

UNM must register foreign students

As of Saturday, the Office of International Programs and Studies at UNM must begin registering almost 1,000 foreign students and scholars who attend UNM. The requirement is because of a new Immigration and Naturalization Service directive that all foreign or exchange students studying in the United States register their personal information on the Internet through the Students and Exchange Visitor Information Service, also known as SEVIS.

COLUMN: Cockfights heartless torture

by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Cockfighting in New Mexico is alive and well. Cockfighting died in committee so we are stuck with this so-called sport for another year at least unless a miracle happens. Five members of the senate committee decided that animal cruelty in New Mexico is alive and well and we should continue it because it is a "tradition.

Affirmative action topic of forum at Law School

Members of several minority groups at UNM said they view the United States as a racist entity that continues to segregate minorities from acceptance into higher-educational institutions and the pursuit of the American dream. Students from the UNM School of Law formed a panel discussion to inform the public about Grutter v.

COLUMN: Castro in predictions

I began my new year like any red-blooded, logically driven American -- I read my horoscope. Strangely enough, my horoscope predicted that this year, Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die and close the final chapter on the ill-fated Cuban experiment. The astrologer went on to predict that his death would not only signal the reunification of Cuban families shattered by century-old political/economic debates, but that Cuba would open her arms to the United States and become an American playground.

SPECIAL SECTION: Employers flock to UNM

More than 79 national corporations are planning to converge at UNM to promote their businesses and help members of the community with their future employment decisions. The 27th Career Expo, sponsored by UNM's Career Services Department, will be Jan. 13 and 14, in Johnson Center from 9 a.

SPECIAL SECTION: Co-ops provide on-the-job experience

by Felicia Fonseca Daily Lobo On graduation day, there can be a degree in one hand, work experience in the other and a foot in the door with local and even international companies. At UNM, the Cooperative Education Program provides students with paid, study-related employment throughout a semester.

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SPECIAL SECTION: Services guide career choices

After three years of working toward a degree in pharmacy, and going through grueling math, chemistry and physics courses, 22-year-old Elizabeth Montano decided to change her major. Montano was nearly through the fall semester of her junior year when she realized she was discontent with her career choice.