High school students Autum Blue Eyes, left, Allison Dick, center, and Montana Yazzie gather pamphlets from Christa Moya, American Indian Graduate Center senior program officer, at booths set by the Duck Pond Thursday for Nizhoni Week. The students were on campus to learn about the University and its Native American Studies programs.
This month marks the 40th anniversary of "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson's epic warning that pesticides are destroying life on earth and the day could come when there will be no more birds to herald the coming of spring with their songs. That time may be near. As a senior citizen, I can attest to the fact that there are far fewer birds today than there were during my childhood.
Maurice M. Shapiro, a member of the team that helped develop the atomic bomb, said the reason the Los Alamos program worked was freedom and knowledge shared by the scientists and engineers.
Marsha Kellogg, Tim Canova, Jared Block and Kim Hill sit on a panel during a Latin American Career Development Workshop at University House Wednesday. Kellogg gets a laugh from Canova while she describes her work in Latin America. The Student Organization for Latin American Studies sponsored by the event.
Visiting associate professor Susanne Jonas will help explain Latino immigrant rights - a hot topic in the United States and New Mexico - today at noon at the Latin American and Iberian Institute.
The UNM women's soccer team continues its spring training schedule Saturday with a pair of exhibition games at the UNM Soccer Complex. The Lobos play the Air Force Academy at 10 a.m. and face the University of Texas at El Paso at 6 p.m.
An altercation with police at an early age and exposure to communal living prompted former political prisoner Chris Plummer to explore and later advocate for an anarchist society.
Mayor Martin Chavez would like the city to cut water consumption by 40 percent but he says that would mean everyone in Albuquerque cutting their use by 53 gallons a day.
While the Sept. 11 attack on the United States has elicited an outpouring of patriotic sentiment, the flotsam and jetsam of cultural degradation also remain apparent.
LOS ANGELES - To understand The Rock, you have to break him into three pieces. First there's his World Wrestling Federation persona, also nicknamed "The People's Champ," a body-slamming muscleman known for raising his eyebrow suggestively and snarling wisecracks that whip crowds of thousands into a frenzy.
Descending out of the purple and green sky that the south cast on rock 'n' roll and blues from the '20s to the '70s, comes the Gen-X, fourth infantry division ready to enter the cyber age. Wielding a myriad of hip-thrustin, booty-slappin attitudes, Throw Rag's latest release, Tee-tot, is the next skirmish in the rock-blues battle. The only problem is that, to my knowledge, electric rockabilly had lost the battle quite a while ago.
Michael Carrasco’s March 26 version of what I supposedly said at my March 24 UNM talk is a perfect example of the “drive-by” journalism so prevalent in the media today. He was not in attendance.
Hired gun Joe (William Sterch) makes small talk with Dottie (Katie Huska) during a performance Friday of "Killer Joe" at the Vortex Theatre, at 2004 ´ Central Ave. SE. The play directed by Steve Anderson runs through May 2.
Solar energy, recycling and voter registration are just a few of the topics UNM's chapter of the Public Interest Research Group will promote during its Earth Day celebration Saturday on Johnson Field.
Since its inception in 1994, the Taos Talking Picture Festival has grown into one of the nation's premiere film festivals, showcasing a broad and spectacular array of local, national and international talent. And this year's festival was no exception.
A proposed settlement for a nearly 200-year-old debate surrounding a land grant in the Sandia Pueblo area will be the focus of a forum Saturday in Bratton Hall, Room 2401.
I do not expect this article to be printed, but I have half an hour until my next class and nothing to do but mess around on Zimmerman’s computers, so I’ll write it anyway.
Solutions by The State News
