After more than a year of discussion, UNM Hospital has yet to settle on a solution to its high occupancy rate. William Sparks, executive director for communication and marketing at UNM Health Sciences Center, said UNM officials began to focus on the issue late in 2011. He said the debate began because the occupancy rate at UNMH exceeds typical levels.
Local pornography film festival Pornotopia will be showing off the best in independent pornographic flicks after being stalled out for nearly four years, said Molly Adler, co-owner of Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center and co-founder of Pornotopia.
I’m here today to discuss one of the classic debates of our time: that of AC/DC. Now, you can put away your Angus Young signature edition Gibson guitar and your turntable. I’m talking about alternating current versus direct current
Editor, We, as students who participated in an endeavor to bring Resolution 26F to ASUNM, feel that the Daily Lobo’s article on the matter in the Thursday, September 12 issue was somewhat inaccurate and may have overlooked the main focus of the issue.
For students who want to learn how to assemble a fully-working robot, find a place to restage their failed ninth-grade science projects, play a restored 1980s Asteroids game — or anything in between, Quelab is the place to be.
The mix of New Mexican and Iranian décor in and around the Kabab House, and the grilled green chile served with all entrée plates makes perfect sense to Farid Veryiyani, owner of the Kabab House.
After decades, UNM’s art arena reopens to showcase student projects, and to vie against each other for prizes. Paintings, photographs and other artworks were displayed in the John Sommers Gallery in the Art Building Friday night as part of a juried art exhibit.
UNM slipped two spots on an annual best universities list, but some university officials have shrugged off the ranking. U.S. News and World Report ranked the University as number 181 in the 2014 edition of its Best Colleges Rankings.
For about two decades, Jerome Romero has been raising awareness of the dangers of consuming alcohol during pregnancy. As program manager for UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, Romero focuses on preventing fetal alcohol syndrome,
“After Raymond died, some people thought I should get over it. But you never get over the death of a child,” Elaine Plotkin told me. Elaine’s son Raymond was a freshman at UNM in the fall of 2009, the year the H1N1 flu took the nation by surprise.
Editor, The Jesuit magazine “America” published an interview with Pope Francis. During the 12,000-word interview, Pope Francis commented on artificial contraceptives, abortion and homosexuality. Pope Francis stated that the Catholic Church cannot talk about these issues all of the time.
Fans and supporters of the Albuquerque Comic Expo will be donating and fundraising alike this month to participate in the all-new ACE Kickstarter forum.
This week is filled with quite a few interesting events right on campus. That’s right, you don’t even have to drive to do fun free stuff this week.
On Sept. 14, the Associated Student of the University of New Mexico organized a summit in which state and student officials convened at the Student Union Building to discuss possible solutions to the Lottery Scholarship solvency issue. If you could attend a similar summit, what ideas would you suggest?
Red balloons floated over a parallel parking space filled with chairs and tables Downtown as UNM students converted the space into a seating area last week.
Candidates continued to compete with each other on how to make Albuquerque richer and safer in a televised mayoral debate Sunday afternoon. KOAT hosted the first televised mayoral debate of this year’s election cycle.
In the two years before I took office as mayor, we lost 22,000 jobs in the city. In the last 12 months alone, we’ve gained 7,000. We’re adding jobs, and that’s good news …
Two men held up a human-sized cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama in front of the SUB Friday morning. A crowd of about 100 faced the cutout and pointed their fingers at the faux United States leader.
Everyone knows that faculty members teach our classes. Some, such as lecturers, our unsung faculty heroes, teach four or even five classes every semester; and some, such as those with “professor” in their title, teach fewer classes because they have other responsibilities.
Editor, Thank you, John Tyczkowski, for showing your open support of nuclear power in the press in the Sept. 20 issue of the Daily Lobo in your column, “Thorium better for nuclear power.” We need more people outside of just the nuclear power community voicing their support for nuclear power.
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