Its Facebook page describes the band’s sound as “tragically underrated droney psych-rock.” Local band CanyonLands originated as a project called Small Flightless Birds that started while vocalist/guitarist Nathan Bickley was attending the University.
What do you get when you mix a blended-up cartoon baby, a cocktail of bodily fluids and gore that makes “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” look like “Bambi”? Burning Paradise Video has the answer.
It’s the last movie rental holdout, a Pandora’s box full of lost treasures. Burning Paradise Video has outlasted Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and remains unconquerable terrain for the Redbox and Netflix.
Former UNM President Louis Caldera left the position almost five years ago, but his name still appears in the University salary book as a law school professor making $124,000 a year.
A proposed Student Fee Review Board policy change has once again pitted the graduates against the undergraduates.
The University announced three finalists for the interim provost position on Monday, continuing a month-long process to replace former provost Suzanne Ortega.
Nonresident students could face an almost 300 percent tuition increase if they take fewer than six credit hours. This semester, full-time, nonresident students are paying about $6,500 more than resident students, according spring 2011 figures from the Bursar’s Office.
Cartoonist Stephen McCranie has a pointy, kind face, and is dismayingly tall. His name is just as unwieldy.
Phooey on you, brainless America. Boy, oh, boy, did the big-wigs hit it big, selling us not only sneakers, burgers, insurance and batteries, but also slinging us the subliminal.
Students who have had to pick between a general graduation ceremony and a ceremony for their department now have a third option: Rainbow Graduation. It’s a new ceremony for LGBTQ students and their friends (and allies) organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center.
Editor, Arab leaders also have poor track records in the Middle East. Lately the catch word is “occupation” and the “West.” Funny enough, let us check the history of Arab leadership and occupations of others. There is a long history of brutal Arab occupation of other’s lands and forced cultural change.
Editor, Consume! How will you defend buying that cup of coffee this morning, the hamburger at noon, the cigarettes for your afternoon, or the TV dinner you plan on eating alone?
Editor, To the candidates for UNM Provost: I am writing to you as a student with a disability — in this case, spinal cord injury.
It’s been more than a year and a half since UNM became a “smoke-free” campus, but so far no one has been punished for smoking outside of designated areas.
In fall 2008 UNM Housing spent $206,000 of student rent money to install a card-swiping system at Redondo Village, but it remains offline nearly three years later.
The verdict is in. The Mountain West Conference on Monday suspended five UNM and four BYU baseball players after a heated exchange between UNM’s Quay Grant and BYU’s Chris Capper escalated into a bench-clearing brawl at the conclusion of Saturday’s matchup in Provo, Utah. The MWC reviewed tape of the brawl over the weekend before meting out discipline.
It is appropriate that a piece of incredible magical realism can simply be referred to as magical. Literally everything is in place for this piece.
From introductory courses in math and science to languages that have come back from the dead to haunt living students, there are 92 UNM courses that have earned a failure rate as low as 20 percent and up to 55 percent, according to the Fall 2010 Course Outcomes Data (aka “Killer Courses”) compiled by the Office of Institutional Research. Math 121 Twelve out of the 92 killer courses were math classes, which also account for five of the six classes with failure rates above 50 percent.
All of us love getting an A, whether you’re a slacker or a high achiever who needs a GPA boost. The Daily Lobo is here to offer unofficial suggestions for your fall schedule so you know where to find those “do the min., you win” classes.
I’m looking at the front page of Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal. The top headlines are related to alcohol abuse. The big one reads, “NOT GUILTY” in big, bold all-caps.
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