One UNM dean’s winter break vacation in Mexico ended with a life-threatening spinal cord injury. Jim Linnell, interim dean of the College of Fine Arts, was rushed to the UNM Trauma Center to undergo surgery Dec.
Robert Frank becomes UNM’s 21st president on June 1, and he said he plans to spend the first 100 days of his presidency listening to suggestions from the UNM community.
Talking about sex before you have it increases the odds that you will enjoy the relationship, and the sex, to the fullest. If you don’t have this conversation, you could get yourself into a situation where you and your partner are butting heads or hurting each other because you had different expectations about the relationship, casual or committed, going into it.
It seems strange to me that in 50 years pot will be legal, but cigarettes will not. The cultural pendulum has swung, and smoking tobacco is on the way out.
Editor, I’ve been following with interest stories about Santa Fe’s upcoming minimum wage hike. The minimum wage is $9.85 an hour and in 2012 it’s poised to increase to somewhere between $10.22 and $10.32 an hour. I think this is great.
The men’s basketball team opened its conference play last weekend by doing something it didn’t do in the previous three seasons—win. Senior forward Drew Gordon said the team made a point to get off to a winning start in conference.
Not even the 7,400 fans at the Sanchez sellout game could help the women’s basketball team to victory. Junior guard Caroline Durbin was the only player in double digits.
The men’s basketball team faces its toughest test of the season so far when it takes on No. 16 San Diego State tonight at The Pit.
Three isn’t a crowd, but it is a goal for the baseball team. The UNM baseball team has been to the NCAA tournament for the last two years, and this year senior pitcher Rudy Jaramillo said the team expects to make it to the tournament again.
The race to the MWC championship lost a hurdle this year for the men’s and women’s track teams.
Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-Albuquerque) is a retired social worker serving his second term as a state senator. He serves the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as much of the UNM area. The Daily Lobo talked to Ortiz y Pino about how a bill becomes a law.
After several years of cuts, UNM may finally see a budget increase during this year’s legislative session. UNM is expected to receive a $9.9 million increase to its budget after the New Mexico House Appropriation Finance Committee selects a higher education budget recommendation on how the increased funds should be used.
New Mexico’s 50th legislative session begins today and will focus primarily on the state’s budget.
All the talk of politics gets complicated pretty fast, so here’s a rundown of the most common terms encountered in legislative talk.
(un)Occupy Albuquerque protesters set out on foot for Santa Fe early Saturday morning and arrived at the state Capitol yesterday evening, just in time for the first day of the legislative session.
The men’s and women’s basketball teams’ fortunes clashed during the winter break. The men’s team won all six of the games it played during break. It is now 15-2 overall and is on a 13-game winning streak, the fourth longest in the country.
Rather than an attitude or an ideology, Motley said her style is defined by the places she shops and the kinds of staples she relies on. For instance, she’s a Forever 21 kind of girl who opts for sundresses and leggings instead of a pair of jeans.
Tales of the walking dead are not just the stuff of zombie flicks or well-known television shows. In “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” the latest Adobe Theater production, playwright Eugene O’Neill tells a tale of “a dead man, walking slowly behind his own coffin.”
“Lord have mercy! Is that what that is?” In the 21st century, it’s hard to believe drugs were ever a shock to see on the silver screen. As they say, seeing is believing, and you can experience this wonder at the free screening of the original “Easy Rider” at the KiMo Theatre, part of its New Mexico centennial celebration.
Dear Wooley, I am participating in the UNM production of the “Vagina Monologues,” which will be presented this February. This will actually be my third year of participation in the “Vagina Monologues,” but my first year in Albuquerque.
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