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Opinion
LETTER: God excluded in constitution really?
July 25I agree with Mr. Bauers' statement concerning the pledge of allegiance. While it seems very trivial, the phrase "under god" is in direct contradiction to the Constitution.
Culture
'Sky' displays heart of a poet
Kenn Rodriguez | July 25Those who know Luis Alberto Urrea for his acclaimed nonfiction work might be taken aback by his latest collection of short stories, "Six Kinds of Sky."
Sports
Judge: NCAA limits to remain
July 25Staff and Wire Reports A federal judge in Columbus, Ohio has ruled that it’s too soon to determine whether the NCAA’s rules restricting participation in certain non-conference basketball tournaments violate federal antitrust laws. U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr.
Culture
Sound Off
Simon Trujillo | July 25Complaints about the banality of popular culture are nothing dramatically new. Working against the uniformity of early 20th century American culture, social critic and philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote the provocative essay "On Popular Music." In it, he rails against popular music's numbing and monotonous tendency - identifying with prophetic precision the lack of originality and mental vitalization it offers its listeners. Bear in mind that Adorno was writing in the early 1940s.
Sports
New UNM coach sweats the details
James Barron | July 25The little things mean a lot to Jeremy Fishbein. When Fishbein came to UNM last year as an associate head coach, players took notice of his attention to detail — whether it was helping them understand their roles on the team or thinking about their conduct on and off the field.
Culture
Music today a divider for people
Mike Sanchez | July 25What's going on in the music industry nowadays? You hear it every day, "Pop music is going to bust! Any day now! It'll be gone!" Of course, these prophets are countered with screaming little girls hungering for the next boy band release, waiting to help them sell a million copies in the first hour.
Culture
'Hit Me Baby' today's 'Respect'
Nathan Jacquez | July 25Thirty years ago Janis Joplin was selling records and touring the country with her own brand of music and style. Before that, Aretha Franklin was a huge star. People loved these women's voices and the soul they put in their music. They were respected for who they were and what they represented. Neither of these women were playmate material.
News
Student receives SIPES money
Beth Hahn | July 25UNM student Michael Petronis was recently awarded a $2,000 scholarship from the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.
Culture
O.M.F. fuses sports and song
July 25What's a summer music festival without winter sports? The Jeep World Outside Music Festival had something for everyone. Over the weekend a large percent of the sports-and-music enthused citizens of Albuquerque were at the Journal Pavilion enjoying the largest music event yet this summer.
News
Agora seeks additional funds
Angela Williams | July 25The Agora Crisis Center is starting the new academic year with a pledge to make its presence more known to UNM, said Jeremy Jaramillo, the center's director of budget and finance.
News
U.S. elitism product of commerce
Dustin Habermann | July 25Yankees are classist pig-dogs: You are sitting in a Filipino Karaoke/Strip-Bar in one of the more sketchy sections of downtown Manila. You sip a San Miguel and watch a 4'10" pinoy baritone belt out "One Sweet Day" with the accompaniment of a half-naked stripper he is paying 250 pesos an hour to sing with him - roughly five US dollars. He is really getting into it and is noticeably drunk. The stripper, meanwhile, sings the Mariah Carey part with forced and false emotion. She is merely doing her job.
Sports
Early bird rankings rarely right
Kenn Rodriguez | July 25Pre-season football rankings count about as much as West Palm Beach ballots with hanging chads. But that doesn’t mean that people don’t take them seriously. Peruse any message board on the Internet and you’ll see sports fans spreading their smack talk based on the picks of prognosticators who haven’t seen one down of actual football played yet.
News
Rock Climbers
July 25UNM senior Abby Dickenson, left, sophomore Kristen Carrillo, and Andrea Cavallo assend the rock climbing wall in the Outside Adventure Village during the Jeep World Outdoor Festival at the Journal Pavillion Sunday.
News
UNM attractive to deaf students
Clay Holtzman | July 25Being deaf or hard of hearing can be an aggravating challenge. Interacting with a world that doesn't share a person's communication system and doesn't understand that person's situation can make an already challenging situation stressful and hampered.
Opinion
COLUMN: Designer logos lose attraction
July 25Oh, alligator, where art thou? Surely you remember the snooty little snapper. Perched on the pecs of preppies in the '80s, the Lacoste alligator - and the Polo pony and Yves Saint Laurent's italicized initials - turned the humble T-shirt into the corporate billboard of the late 20th century. For a while there, no one looked prouder than the logo-laden peacocks who overpaid for the privilege of boosting some designer's stock price.
News
Adventure Seeking
July 25A member of the Hawk Mountain Ski Jump Team demonstrates his abilities in the Outside Adventure Village during Jeep World Outdoor Festival at the Journal Pavillion Sunday.
Opinion
COLUMN: Risk-taking underrated
July 25I was wondering what sound advice I might give this week, when it occurred to me that I'm not particularly fit to advise anyone at the moment. Still, I can make observations.
Opinion
LETTER: Lack of local doctors shortcoming of program
July 25Your July 3 article on the 'Access Expo' by Doctors Without Borders on campus did not cover the panel discussion that Friday evening, which in turn did not cover an equally vital lack of accessibility and affordability of local doctors in the countries they serve.
