News
Volleyball moves to Pit
J.R. Oppenheim | October 3The arrival of a Broadway musical to campus has displaced the UNM volleyball team for three home matches.
Lobos Basketball Tournament
News
2012 ELECTION VOTER GUIDE
Alexandra Swanberg | October 3This week’s installment of the 2012 Election Voter Guide covers two of the 16 local candidates running for state Senate. There are 15 state Senate districts for the Albuquerque area, including Corrales, Placitas and Rio Rancho and Bernalillo.
Opinion
NFL lockout exemplifies greed of 1%
Jason Darensburg | October 3Hallelujah, the lockout is over! The return of the regular NFL referees to the field last Thursday was a welcome relief to everyone who loves professional football.
Culture
Hip-hop’s not all hype
Justin de la Rosa | October 3A common misconception about rap and hip-hop is that it’s nothing but gold chains, flat-billed hats and rolling with a crew who contribute little more than nothing to the music during a live performance.
Culture
LGBTQ film festival entry details abuse
Megan Underwood | October 3A transgender woman with AIDS lies on her deathbed, and every time one of the nurses did a checkup, the nurse would remind her that she was going to hell.
News
Aki Matsuri
Megan Underwood | October 2The Aki Matsuri Japanese Fall Festival featured Japanese cultural traditions and art forms such as karate, taiko (or drumming groups) and Okinawan folk dance.
News
UNM partners with UT on nanoscience
Megan Underwood | October 2An $18.5 million grant will fund UNM student efforts to make cellphone parts in larger quantities and at a lower cost. The National Science Foundation grant created the Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.
News
Frank looks to students for vision
Svetlana Ozden | October 2UNM President Robert Frank soon will seek student input as part of an exercise to envision the future of the University.
News
UNM gets grant to fight renal disease
Michelle Durham | October 2A $6 million donation will help fund a University kidney research institute that will focus on end-stage renal disease, a health risk associated with diabetes and high blood pressure.
Opinion
If elected, Romney will wage class war
Marjorie Crow/ Daily Lobo Guest Columnist | October 2For those liberals out there who are discouraged about and disappointed in President Obama and don’t feel like voting this year, consider the alternative.
Opinion
Statesmanship beats brinksmanship
David Drezner/ Daily Lobo guest columnist | October 2Recently, a reader referred to our current foreign policy as unrealistic, “passive” and “operating on hope.” Although the Islamists are an undeniably violent force in the Middle East,
Culture
Scenes impart essence of Ovid
Graham Gentz | October 2There is always an extreme gender discrepancy in theater, with the number of men titanically dwarfed by the number of women. Hint.
Culture
The Weekly Free
Nicole Perez | October 2I’m really burned out by explaining to you why free things are great … so just take my word for it. This week’s freebies are awesome.
Sports
‘A tale of two halves’
Thomas Romero-Salas | October 1This isn’t the Lobo football team that rolled over for teams in years past. That’s what the No. 24 Boise State Broncos found out at University Stadium on Saturday when they escaped with a narrow 32-29 victory.
News
(un)Occupy Albuquerque celebrates one year
Megan Underwood | October 1Although members of the (un)Occupy Albuquerque movement were arrested last year for protesting at Yale Park on campus without a valid permit, the group gathered there Saturday in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the group’s formation.
News
Zimmerman begins 24-hour schedule
Ardee Napolitano | October 1For the first time, Zimmerman Library is opening its doors to students around the clock for five days a week.
Opinion
Using factual labels essential to debate
John Tyczkowski/ Daily Lobo guest columnist | October 1One of the most popular epithets to fling around against Barack Obama is the charge that he’s a socialist — and/or communist — out to destroy the United States with his Marxist — and/or Soviet-style — agenda.
Opinion
Obama’s foreign policy just as bellicose as Bush’s
October 1Editor, In response to Allen E. Weh’s letter, I can’t help but notice the fallacies in his letter. First of all, the government has very much maintained the same foreign policies from the Bush era
Sports
Turnovers turn tide but can’t close 3 point gap
J.R. Oppenheim | October 1Coaches often preach “Hold on to the football,” and for good reason. Turnovers are costly.
Sports
1-0 win kicks off conference
J.R. Oppenheim | October 1UNM women’s soccer coach Kit Vela hit a career milestone Friday night in the Lobos’ 1-0 victory over MWC opponent Boise State.
