The UNM Women’s Resource Center is working to combat what they consider cuts aimed at New Mexico’s women. New Mexico’s first female governor, Susana Martinez, proposed cutting 100 percent of funding for the N.M.
Ray Birmingham is back to his same old shenanigans. Looking to make it back-to-back NCAA tournament trips, the UNM baseball team opens the season at No.
Alex Allbritton is moving. But the UNM baseball team’s infielder isn’t going back to his hometown of Aurora, Colo.
It’s been building for one of the lesser-known club teams, and now it’s the UNM hockey team’s time. The Lobos’ chance to play for a national championship starts today in Colorado Springs, Colo. UNM finished its 2010-11 American Collegiate Hockey Association season 16-5-2 overall, and it opens as the No.
Editor, The recent debacle involving the fight over light between the parking structures and the astronomy department has inspired me to write a short piece that I hope will benefit students, faculty and staff members.
Editor, It seems like the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have inspired the people of Yemen to follow suit.
Editor, Who can I complain to about the women’s bathrooms in Mitchell Hall? The ever-present puddles of water on the floor are bad enough, but half of the doors don’t even lock properly.
Editor, Self-avowed anarchist-socialist Noam Chomsky hopes that Wisconsin protests will turn into a nationwide “democracy uprising,” just like in Egypt.
World-renowned architect Antoine Predock has a sense of humor about his work. At a presentation he gave Tuesday inside George Pearl Hall, which Predock designed, he showed a photograph of the building and the Frontier Restaurant across the street. “Anybody who saw that, which would they like better?
What started in an alleyway in the international district is now one of the Southwest’s highest-attended beatbox/dance battle shows. From its ramshackle roots, Breakin’ Hearts, in its ninth year, has found a more-permanent location at 508 Warehouse, and attendance has averaged about 1,000, co-founder Cyrus Gould said. “We started in a venue where you had to enter through an alley, and it was in a shady neighborhood,” he said. The event is now classier, Gould said, featuring a performance, contest and workshops to entertain people with diverse interests.
Imagine buying a home, but the realtor explains that you have to share a phone number with your neighbor.
Editor, Through its human and intellectual mass, Egypt became the heart and center of the contemporary Arab world.
The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Popejoy Hall have put past grievances behind them and are ready to work together to solve the $245,000 debt NMSO owes Popejoy. Ruth Silva-Hernandez, interim-president of NMSO, and Tom Tkach, director of Popejoy, held a news conference in the Popejoy lobby on Wednesday afternoon. Tkach said the University is trying to be patient with NMSO. “It’s more important for us to have a symphony than to just resolve the debt right away and then have no symphony,” he said. Silva-Hernandez said the symphony orchestra is facing financial problems, but couldn’t give specific numbers at the moment.
UNM organized a campus safety walk Tuesday night, but officials said they were disappointed by the low turnout.
Given the vast UNM campus, students could walk into a dangerous situation without an emergency blue light in sight. Melissa Martin, a participant in Tuesday night’s UNM Safety Walk, said main campus might not be well-equipped to assist a person fleeing a hostile situation.
As the victim of an on-campus stabbing lied unconscious in a hospital bed, gauze taped over her jugular and a tube inflating her punctured lung, her sister drove slowly through the alleyways near the Anthropology Building.
From one of its best performances of the season to its worst. After posting a season-high 53 percent shooting Saturday against Colorado State, the UNM women’s basketball team went ice-cold Tuesday, notching a dismal 22 percent from the field en route to a 50-44 home loss to San Diego State. With the loss, the Lobos fall to 9-14 on the season and 3-8 in Mountain West Conference action.
The Board of Regents approved main campus housing plans Tuesday, ushering in a two-year period of dorm demolition and renovation.
The University tested its emergency alert system, LoboAlerts, on Monday, but students said they were confused by the multiple texts and e-mails they received about the test. Student Brandon See said he received the first text message three times saying that the alert was just a test.
After a heated debate, the House Voters and Election Committee postponed a vote that will determine if New Mexicans should be required to show photo identification at voting polls on Election Day.
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