by Ayrel Clark Iowa State Daily (Iowa State U.) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- Is this the face of the enemy? This is a question posed on a flier to all those meandering around Room 2050 in Agronomy Hall. This is a rather interesting inquiry. Who is my enemy? Is the enemy of my friend my enemy? Does that make the friend of my enemy also my enemy? Are you confused yet? I certainly am.
Editor, Affirmative action is in the news once again. Conservatives are everywhere in the media telling us how affirmative action is bad for the United States. And, the conservative spins are quite problematic. Let's take at two of the more common ones.
UNM student Paul Smith doesn't have things easy when it comes to getting around campus. In the place he used to park near his class in the Center for the Arts sits a big hole in the ground where UNM is building the Cornell parking structure.
Two UNM linguistics professors, both Fulbright Scholars, are offering courses this semester that emphasize the importance of multilingualism as an instrument to understanding foreign people and cultures. Visiting Lecturer Zouhair Maalej, a Tunisian native, has previously lectured at a British university and is working on a book titled, "The Contemporary Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Arabic Data.
UNM Law Professor James Ellis has been named the 2002 "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal, an award he admits he never would have received without help from a tireless group of students and colleagues. Ellis received the award for successfully arguing before the U.
UNM President Chris Garcia said during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday that he has met with Gov. Bill Richardson recently and will support a two percent increase in staff compensation. "There seems to be at least a hopeful spirit that with the new administration will come better things for the state of New Mexico and for higher education in particular," Garcia said.
by Amalea Smirniotopoulos Washington Square News (New York U.) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- Last Thursday, Great Britain's Labor government announced plans to change the way the nation's higher education system is financed, proposing that universities be allowed to charge students higher tuition fees and allowing them to defer payment until graduation.
Editor, Todd J. Burns' letter on Tuesday asks that we support our soldiers, whether we agree with invading Iraq or not, and that we help them come home to their families and friends. No one has anything against the soldiers. The fastest way for them to be with their families is not to go.
by Andy Fahey Mustang Daily (California Poly State U.) (U-WIRE) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- As the movie "Blue Chips" clearly pointed out, it's no secret that some college athletes get paid to play. The practice of showering NCAA athletes with gifts, whether in the form of currency, cars or other commodities, is obviously wrong.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Music has a transformative power and its might cannot be understated. Every country in the world has a national anthem and every movement has had it's soundtrack. From "El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido" in Chile, to the bulk of Woody Gutherie's and Pete Seger's work and the re-contextualized hymn of "We Shall Overcome" in the civil rights movement of the '60s, music and song help define movements.
Virginia Woolf has never been quite so mysterious. At least, not since her death in 1941. But with the advent of Michael Cunningham's ferocious, candid novel "The Hours," and its equally provocative movie version, Woolf has been all the rage again. In his novel, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Cunningham delves into one of the 20th century's greatest novelists and the mother of the modernists through not only Woolf's story, but also by interweaving a more current theme with two additional characters.
In the domineering face of the maniacal sciences and robo-pleasure, musicians like The Belles remain unfazed. Music has always been renowned for its powers to affect the listener, and now a Baltimore-based company is taking this characteristic of music to the extreme.
The UNM student who was found dead Oct. 4, in his SRC dorm room, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a state medical investigator's report. Frank Baca, 47, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a toxicology screen report released last week by the Office of the Medical Investigator.
Editor, It is a long way from home. Whether you are from San Diego, Calif., or Buffalo, N.Y., it is still a long way from home. Off to Iraq they go. They knew, as well as everyone else in the United States, that at some point they were going to be sent overseas, answering the call of their country.
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