The resurgent UNM football team plays its final non-conference game Saturday against Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The Div. I Independent Aggies (1-5) have only beaten Division I-AA Idaho State University this year. USU lost its first four games against Division-I teams by a total of 178-61.
The UNM women's soccer team fell to Brigham Young University 3-2 on Thursday night. The Cougars scored with less than five minutes left in the game lifting them to a victory and a 3-0 start in the Mountain West Conference. Freshman midfielder Brooke Bowman took a pass from Jeni Viernes and beat Lobo goalkeeper Kristen Winters for the game-winning goal.
by Mike Wolff Daily Lobo In 1990, the White House slipped up and let out a report justifying the first Gulf War in economic terms, claiming that it would stabilize world oil prices and supply. The people rose in protest, shouting, "No blood for oil!" The tactic was quickly changed and war was from then on out about good and evil.
News in Brief: Police were dispatched to the University Hospital and to the UNM Pharmacy Tuesday in response to two separate reports of staff finding suspected narcotics. In the first incident, UNM Hospital security staff turned over a crack pipe and a tablet stamped '512.
For people who are looking for a change from the norm of Friday night keg cups and crowded houses with loud, pre-recorded music, consider the "Dark Side of the X" variety Show. Modeled after famous variety shows such as the mainstream "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and local phenomenon Tricklock Theatre Company's "Reptilian Lounge," "Dark Side of the X" allows people to go as wild as they want in the basement of Popejoy Hall.
Editor, President Bush has no idea what he is getting us into with his paranoiac fixation on Saddam Hussein. The entire Arab world isn't going to sit back and watch as we destroy Iraq. Visualize this scenario: Iraq launches missiles at Israel, who responds in kind.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Gary Primich lives the blues, that's why he's so good at it. Primich spends upwards 200 nights a year touring and playing in venues all across the country. His renaissance-like abilities as a singer/songwriter/harmonica player, separates him from many other one-trick pony style blues artists.
by Mara Magdich Daily Lobo UNM student groups sponsored a free three-hour class at Johnson Center Wednesday where an Albuquerque police officer and a self-defense instructor taught about 20 women how to defend themselves in case they are attacked.
"New-Metal" band offers nothing "new". Down the sun, and keep it down if you can. Downthesun, that's one word, all lower case, is Des Moines, Iowa's latest addition to the Slipknot wannabe club. With their not-so-original brand of thrash metal and vocal-shredding lyrics, the band members set out to prove just how fucked up growing up in the Midwest can make someone.
There's something wonderful about a dose of good heavy metal - it soothes the soul. And Soulfly's latest album, 3, is all about good heavy metal. The band, fronted by ex-Sepultura singer Max Cavalera, has a distinct heavy rock sound mixed with a Brazilian influence that reaches out and forces you into a chokehold.
The witness came to police and said he saw a man shouldering a weapon -- he identified it an AK-74, an automatic assault rifle -- and about the van. But under questioning Wednesday night, the witness admitted that he had not been in the parking garage at the time of the shooting, but instead was inside the Home Depot, CNN has learned.
Editor, According to an Albuquerque Journal poll published Tuesday, Oct. 15, 62 percent of Bernalillo County residents say they would support a law that would completely prohibit smoking inside public places. When asked about bans in more specific locations, 61 percent support such an ordinance in restaurants and eateries while only 30 percent say they would support a complete ban on smoking in bars or taverns.
by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist The Cheney-Bush Administration Lexicon: African-American (Black): a Negro. Air Force: diplomatic instrument for imposing peace. Ally: any country that does what we say and Israel. Ariel Sharon: a) a man of peace; b) an advertisement for Jenny Craig.
The ASUNM Senate unanimously passed its fall budget Wednesday, approving $51,576 that will be distributed to 49 student groups. "We're really happy with the work we've done," Sen. Tim Serna said. "We came out about $2,300 lower than what we first projected.
Editor, I am writing in response to a bombshell that the administration at the Anderson Schools of Management released to the December graduates last week. We were all notified that in order to graduate we must pass an exit test that will be administered to us in November.
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