Sports
Season debuts new friends, foes
Thomas Romero-Salas | August 24The UNM volleyball team will have to overcome injuries, a lack of depth and new players in its opening tournament of the season today.
Lobos Basketball Tournament
Sports
0-1-1 team looks to balance tally
Thomas Romero-Salas | August 24The Lobo women’s soccer team will vie for its first win of the season when it takes on Iowa State this Friday.
News
Student positions remain unfilled
Svetlana Ozden | August 23Although ASUNM President Caroline Muraida hired 35 people this summer to fill student positions on various University boards and committees, 20 positions have yet to be filled, meaning the student voice is still silent on some aspects of the University. Muraida said that throughout the summer, she held more than 100 hourlong interviews and that as part of her presidential duties, she needs to continue to fill the empty board and committee positions.
News
Panelists prep to meet policymakers
Svetlana Ozden | August 23Eight UNM students spent the summer preparing to interact directly with national leaders and policymakers at a public-policy conference in Las Cruces.
Opinion
Raise wages to lift city’s residents out of poverty
Will Thomson | August 23Currently, almost 90,000 Albuquerque residents — or 15.7 percent — live in poverty. The many who live on minimum wage add to these ranks.
Opinion
Party on, but don’t end up liable for friend’s DWI
August 23Editor, The first week of the 2012 fall semester is in full swing. Grab a slice at Saggios, catch a tan at the Duck Pond and invite your friends over to celebrate the victory of knowledge with a cold one — assuming that you’re 21, of course.
Opinion
Rep. Akin’s words proof of misogyny in GOP
August 23Editor, Republicans continuously claim that President Obama and the Democrats are “driving the bus off the cliff.” This week, Rep.
Culture
Scooters Rule
Nicole Perez | August 23A lone mechanic revs the engine of a red, dirt-spattered scooter as fumes pour from the muffler into every crevice of the dark garage.
Culture
Scooter buff lives to race and repair
Nicole Perez | August 23Sean Campbell, co-founder and co-owner of Blue Smoke Garage, learned how to service his scooter by trial and error.
Culture
Sci-fi fans converge
Antonio Sanchez | August 23It’s the end of the world as we know it at this year’s Albuquerque science fiction convention, and sci-fi fans feel fine.
Culture
For Your Ears
Antonio Sanchez | August 23Exotic Animal Petting Zoo plays music for fans of The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Fear Before the March of Flames and Really Loud Band with a Ridiculously Long Name.
News
Photo Essay: Pals with Kal
Adria Malcolm | August 22Actor Kal Penn, best known for his role in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” signed autographs outside the SUB Tuesday.
News
Association’s meeting ends in uncertainty
Svetlana Ozden | August 22Despite claims from UNM Parent Association Board members, a UNM spokeswoman said the parent association won’t disband and will work with the University to resolve recent disagreements.
News
Deportation reprieve begins
Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga and Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga | August 22Young undocumented immigrants in New Mexico and across the country can now start an application process that will allow them to work legally and remain in the country with temporary protection from deportation.
News
UNM, employees split insurance hike
Svetlana Ozden | August 22Even though UNM employees’ health insurance premium costs have increased, employees earning less than $50,000 per year won’t pay for the full amount of the increase out of pocket.
Opinion
Look forward to a decade of #NBCfail
Jason Darensburg | August 22The verdict is in: this year’s Olympics coverage by NBC sucked. The extinguishing of the Olympic flame at the closing ceremonies in London did not put an end to the chorus of global condemnation of NBC’s television coverage.
Opinion
Tolerance not tolerable; UNM shouldn’t stand for it
August 22Editor, Michael Reid, you are right. Tolerance was not the right word to use. The Chick-fil-A CEO said his anti-gay remarks as Chick-fil-A’s CEO.
Culture
Week in the Gila was no walk in the park
Nicole Perez | August 22My journey to the Gila National Forest to volunteer for the U.S. Forest Service began on Sunday, when I missed the 5 p.m. Greyhound from Albuquerque and squeezed my way onto the next one, which left at 2:50 the following morning.
