We prayed for rain and then we prayed for it to stop. Drought has been an increasing reality of New Mexicans’ existence over the past few years. Of the majority of the western United States declared drought-stricken this year, New Mexico was one of the most affected, with the last three years being both the hottest and driest on record.
Editor, I am writing in regards to the political cartoon in the Sept. 18 issue of the Daily Lobo. The cartoon featured a suited Democrat Donkey telling a man entering the Washington Navy Yard with a gun to ‘Halt! Or I’ll pass more laws!’
After Saturday’s basketball practice, first-year head coach Craig Neal said he caught himself looking around the court. Steve Alford wasn’t there. It’s something Neal said he’ll have to get used to.
Starting next spring, New Mexico’s tennis teams will play their home competitions at a new facility featuring better spectator seating, a scoreboard and stadium lighting.
UNM alumnus and former Lobo basketball player Michael Cooper received the Living Legend award from the University’s Black Alumni Chapter Friday night at the Centennial Engineering Auditorium. After playing for UNM from 1976 to 1978, Cooper was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers where he started his path to become a legend.
A tall, smartly dressed man crosses his left leg over his right as the woman next to him begins to play a cover of “Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” by Jason Webley on her ukulele. The first few chords play, and the man lifts his microphone and begins to sing the lyrics to a crowd of about 120.
For the first time in the televised Albuquerque mayoral election debates, candidates’ attentions flowed to the issue of water resources and drought in the city. The final televised debate of the mayoral race was hosted Monday night by New Mexico PBS.
If you are feeling sick, is there a way to determine if you have a bacterial versus viral infection without going to the clinic? For example, temperature? Swollen glands? Green snot? Coughing up stuff?
Editor, If I were a part of the staff at the Daily Lobo, I would reconsider the Facebook requirement and return to a system of anonymity. First, let me say that I am an UNM alumnus and very proud of it.
The question to ask, when presented with a story and its characters, laughter, tragedies and success becomes, “Do you believe?” If you have to ask that question time and time again throughout a single play, you might have a problem. The Vortex’s newest production of Sam Shepard’s play “Curse of the Starving Class” comprises many moments, both good and bad.
For those of you who love food and books, this is a pretty awesome week. National Taco Day is Friday and Star Wars Reads Day is Saturday and there are free events for both.
When Tony Hillerman died in 2008, fans of the acclaimed mystery author thought they would have to say goodbye to Navajo Nation Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee as well. However, Anne Hillerman has picked up the pen and continued where her father left off in her first fiction novel “Spider Woman’s Daughter.”
Anberlin rode the high tides of pop rock in the mid-to-late 2000s and continues to stand out amongst their bubblegum comrades. While the band has leaned back against genre tropes like handclaps and children choirs, there’s a level of authenticity from the band
UNM placed no. 181 in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of best colleges this year, down from 179 from last year. How do you feel about this?
Abortion was the hot topic of the second of three televised Albuquerque mayoral candidate debates of the season. In a debate hosted by KOB Sunday morning, candidates discussed whether they support the late-term abortion ban that is going to be on the ballot in November’s runoff elections.
When Priscila Poliana assumed the presidency of UNM’s graduate and professional student government in May, she already knew she wanted to do something about the website of the bursar’s office. At a GPSA meeting Saturday morning, Poliana outlined issues with the site and reported on the progress she had made with the University administration to fix them.
Keeping up with yearly fluctuations in numbers, the number of motor vehicle thefts and burglaries reported in 2012 has changed yet again. According to the UNM Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released by UNM’s Police Department last week, there were 38 reported cases of motor vehicle theft in calendar year 2012.
Dear colleagues: As we enter our seventh week of the fall semester, the Graduate and Professional Student Association would like to update you on all the exciting changes and happenings which are upon us.
Editor, The Daily Lobo has no obligation to provide a forum for commenters on its content, much less to enable the anonymous name-calling, word salads and spam that populate many comment threads, but by restricting the privilege of posting comments to Facebook users, the Lobo is tacitly endorsing an agenda of profit-motivated surveillance and sousveillance.
He wasn’t speechless after Friday night’s nonconference finale against UC Davis, but New Mexico men’s soccer coach Jeremy Fishbein found the Lobos’ third-straight home loss difficult to explain.
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