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Provost to leave for new position

Chelsea Erven | April 5

UNM Provost Suzanne Ortega will not return to her post in the fall. Ortega’s contract is up for renewal this summer, but she accepted a job offer back east instead of renewing her contract, University President David Schmidly said in his Monday morning e-mail. “We’ll be able to share more about it as the details are finalized, but know that it is a wonderful opportunity, and no one is more deserving of it,” Schmidly wrote.

Opinion

Mussolini’s failed conquest should serve as a lesson

April 5

Editor, The Western nations currently trying to bomb Libya into submission must not be familiar with Libyan history.

Opinion

Spit on your teachers for ruining America’s economy

April 5

Editor, When the economy went belly up and millions of people lost their houses and their jobs, you can bet the teachers, their unions and their outrageous pensions were at fault. All the wealth in this country has been ripped off by greedy teachers who are sickly obsessed with their fantasy that people in this great land of ours need to be educated and that these ne’er-do-well educators actually need to be paid to teach their bullshit. What a joke. We have a bunch of these useless-eater teachers right here at Walmart U.

Opinion

It is my educational party, and I can attend if I want to

April 5

Editor, I was 3 minutes late to my public speaking class this week because I forgot keys to my bike lock.

Opinion

Success in college is nonlinear

Nathan New | April 5

I have to pass a math class in order to graduate. While I respect math and its precision, you could literally sink Albuquerque in the void that is my desire to work on math.

Opinion

GPSA presidential candidate wants to reform organization

April 5

Editor, In running for GPSA president, I have not once referenced the current GPSA president, and the idea that I am running against her is confusing and inaccurate. I decided to run for GPSA president because I believe that GPSA needs more input from the student body.

Opinion

When PMS attacks, fight back

April 5

You are in a bad mood all the time. You have no energy, and nothing is fun. You don’t want to spend time with anybody because all they do is make you mad.

Sports

Flanagan leaves after almost two decades

Brandon Call | April 5

Don Flanagan, after 16 seasons as UNM women’s basketball head coach, resigned Monday after initially deciding to return to the sidelines next season. The reason for Flanagan’s sudden change of heart: Five freshmen players (Tina Doughty, Erin Boettcher, Morgan Toben, Brianna Taylor and Jasmine Patterson) intended to quit the program, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

News

A case of retaliation?

Elizabeth Cleary and Shaun Griswold | April 5

Michael Thorning announced Monday that he is dropping out of the ASUNM presidential race, three weeks after resigning from his high-ranking position in the president’s cabinet. The former chief-of-staff declared March 8 he’d run against Attorney General Jaymie Roybal, and he said ASUNM president Laz Cardenas cut his chief-of-staff duties in half three days later. “I think I got the sense that it was either going to become a hostile work environment or I wasn’t going to be working there,” Thorning said.

Sports

Missouri job taken; Alford stays put

Staff Report | April 5

When UNM head men’s basketball coach Steve Alford says “no,” he means “no.” At least for now.

News

Get to know: Jaymie Roybal

Hunter Riley | April 5

Jaymie Roybal, Now Slate Daily Lobo: Tell me about the slate that you helped create and its platforms. Jaymie Roybal: We wanted the platforms we’ve developed to be straight, have really broad issues — and then we tried to generalize them.

Culture

Coen style not for theater

Graham Gentz | April 5

Three words jump out at you when looking at Aux Dog’s newest production, “Offices.” Those three words: “By Ethan Coen.” Yeah, that Coen.

Culture

Punks fight for common folk

Alexandra Swanberg | April 5

Arroyo Deathmatch plucked, drummed, and ukulele-ed its way to a first-place finish at UNM’s Battle of the Bands.

Opinion

Alleged 9/11 mastermind just more smoke and mirrors

April 4

Editor, The saying, “Things are not always what they seem” is most appropriate when speaking about the U.S.

Opinion

Life spent in service is well spent

Danny Hernandez | April 4

If there isn’t a God, then Saturday was full of coincidences that boiled down to one succinct message: Life should be lived striving hard to make a difference for others’ betterment.

News

Alford denies Mizzou rumor

Isaac Avilucea and Ryan Tomari | April 4

UNM head coach Steve Alford, who in the past hinted that his UNM stay was contingent on continued administrative support, denied reports that he may leave UNM to fill Missouri’s head coaching vacancy.

News

Hundreds march in farmworkers rally

Shaun Griswold | April 4

More than 300 people celebrated labor activist Cesar Chavez’s efforts Saturday. Supporters marched through the downtown Barelas neighborhood to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

News

Get To Know:Michael Thorning

Hunter Riley | April 4

Michael Thorning, New Day Slate Daily Lobo: What is your campaign focused on? Michael Thorning: We want to start a new era where we ask, “How are we reinvesting in students?” We want to make people more competitive in the job market.

Sports

Fresh air and gold medals

Cesar Davila | April 4

The UNM track and field team’s venue changed hastily, but it had little effect. The Lobos — after a long, successful indoor season — racked up eight first-place finishes and several personal records over the weekend at the Tailwind Invitational at the track and field complex.

Sports

Sparks of life in first scrimmage

Cesar Davila | April 4

Perhaps this will finally be the year the UNM football team needs that third digit on the scoreboard. The Lobos, in their first spring scrimmage Saturday at University Stadium, displayed the big-play capacity they’ve lacked for the last two years. Quarterbacks Stump Godfrey and Tarean Austin took all the snaps, and neither turned the ball over in the Lobos’ 90-play scrimmage.