Editor, We would like to applaud Mayor Chavez for declaring the first week in October as Universal Health Care Awareness Week and recognizing that all New Mexicans deserve healthcare. One in four New Mexicans does not have health insurance, according to the most recent census count.
Coming off a disappointing season-opening road trip, the UNM Ice Wolves (0-2) return to home ice this weekend looking to avenge last week's losses to Northern Arizona University. The Ice Jacks handed UNM a pair of losses last weekend in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Three UNM students whose on-campus food delivery service was shut down by University officials last month have done the only thing they could to reopen their business - move it off campus. "It was disappointing," said Elliott Paull, one of the owners of Underground Services.
The UNM School of Engineering was recently ranked among the top 50 engineering schools in the nation that offer a doctorate degree by U.S. News and World Report. The school was ranked 46 of 50 and tied with Dartmouth College, the University of Massachusetts and Vanderbilt University.
Staff Report The UNM volleyball team is on a five-match winning streak, but it will have its hands full when it visits the Utah Utes on Friday. Utah was recently ranked 20th in the AVCA poll but is coming off a tough five-game loss to San Diego State University.
Doralia Freudiger, the last of four candidates for the director of UNM's Office of Equal Opportunity, told University officials Thursday that she would use her ability and expertise to change the office for the better. "I have the skills and I will put them to use at UNM," Freudiger said.
Staff Report UNM police are "actively investigating" the alleged rape of a student that reportedly took place on campus Saturday at about 2 a.m., said UNMPD Commander James Daniels. The investigation is ongoing, so details pertaining to the alleged crime are not all available at this time, Daniels said.
by Margarita Ortega y G¢mez Daily Lobo Glam, jam, thank you ma'am! - October is National Coming Out Month. Just in time, a newly-formed production company, Sinatra-DeVine, is kicking it off with drag revue appropriately called "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: A Night of a Thousand Stars" with a knockout, all-star cast.
In a trial that had been dubbed the "Texaco Seven," charges were dismissed against three defendants while the remaining four, including UNM American Studies Professor Bob Anderson, were convicted of criminal trespass Wednesday. Each of the four defendants convicted, also including UNM students Julie Buckland and Cara McClendon, were sentenced to six months of probation, 20 hours of community service and were asked by presiding Judge Marie Baca not to return to the Texaco gas station where they had chained themselves to gas pumps in April to protest U.
by Aubrey Henretty U-Wire Are you a cool girlfriend? Are you a diva? Are you college material? In a stunning display of hot colors, cool fonts and hard-hitting journalism, the October issue of Seventeen magazine asks its readership all three of these tough questions.
by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo At the UNM Poets and Writers Reading Series last Thursday, faculty member and poet Diane Thiel remarked that Charles Bukowski isn't exactly a bedside read. Well, the same goes for Don McIver. McIver has two chapbooks, covering a range of subjects from the political to the personal to the letter to a prostitute who works Central west of University.
by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist Lost amidst the furor stirred up by my intemperate remark last fall was the fact that I was at the same time charged by a female in my Western Civilization with "creating a hostile classroom environment.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo What is it about Carlos Santana that draws thousands of people to his shows year after year? What separates him from other artists, Latin and otherwise, that grants him the financial and artistic success that has lasted more than 30 years? For example, why do thousands pack the Journal Pavilion for Santana, whereas Ozomatli, his opening act, barely fills smaller venues such as the Sunshine Theatre? These were the questions flooding my head as I was stuck in traffic on the way to the Santana/Ozomatli show on Tuesday night at the Journal Pavilion.
by Eric Howerton Daily Lobo Columnist George W. Bush is obviously confused as to what the international role of the United States really is. Rather than epitomizing Freud's questionable Thanatos - the death instinct, whose validity Freud seriously doubted after directly experiencing WWI - by demanding wars and impetuous missions that will cause unnecessary deaths, shouldn't Bush, as our questionably elected public spokesman, focus more on controlling our borders and maintaining peaceful relations with our neighbors, encouraging peaceful international relations? He should at least address the economy.
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