Opinion
Staff member: Be wary of HR’s cell phone upgrade offer
February 15Editor, Human Resources negotiated staff discounts with various cell-phone companies, including T-Mobile.
Lobos Basketball Tournament
Opinion
Online forum hurls vicious attacks instead of opinions
February 15Editor, I am writing to remark on the hostile environment that has developed in the Daily Lobo’s online comments section.
Opinion
Graduate students ask state legislators for employee status
February 15Editor, I am writing to support SB 400, recognizing graduate assistants, teaching assistants, research assistants and project assistants as employees as introduced by Sen.
Opinion
Daily Lobo writer’s errors call into question veracity of work
February 15Editor, I submit this to you for your information. Andrew Beale has written a column with errors. I believe he needs a refresher class on journalistic integrity and proper research. Beale has two errors in, “NM could become New Arizona.” The first is regarding the number of murders in El Paso, Texas.
Opinion
Act of kindness is new legal high
February 15You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you do something nice? Well, guess what? There is science behind that sensation.
Culture
Remodeling ‘Shakespeare’s house’
Graham Gentz | February 15Because of sadomasochism-style woman-breaking themes, “The Taming of the Shrew” has been controversial since its inception. It’s also why the play has seen a lot of light around Albuquerque in the past few years.
News
Music-makers hit right note for a century
Alexandra Swanberg | February 15A good pair of lungs is required to sing for a century, and the UNM Choral program has 400 of them. It started in 1910 with 26 men and women and grew to 400 members.
News
Structure’s ‘efficient lighting’ dims night sky
Alexandra Swanberg | February 15Lights glowing from the Yale Parking Structure make it difficult for University astronomers to search the skies from a nearby observatory. Professor Rich Rand, faculty overseer for the observatory, said parking structure lighting has made it harder to see the stars in Albuquerque. “When they built the hospital that was bad enough, but this source is much worse,” he said.
Sports
Coach leads sweep of Utah, has fun doing it
Brandon Call | February 14Don’t remind the UNM softball team how it fared last year; it has already forgotten. Under former head coach Ty Singleton, the Lobos went 11-37 overall and 1-14 in Mountain West Conference action in 2010.
Sports
Practice made perfect in Bobcat trouncing
Cesar Davila | February 14All those season-long inconsistencies were inconsequential Saturday. In its best performance of the season, the UNM women’s basketball team shot 53 percent from the field and 42 percent from the 3-point line on the way to a 86-53 rout over Colorado State at The Pit. Head coach Don Flanagan said he had been waiting for the Lobos to put on a shooting exhibition.
Sports
Bouncing from loss to win
Brandon Call | February 14The UNM women’s tennis team earned a split this weekend. The Lobos fell 4-3 in a heartbreaker to NMSU on Friday before rebounding for a 6-1 win against Montana State on Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex. “Our purpose statement as a team is to improve,” head coach Roy Cañada said.
Sports
Injury-ridden Walker leaps ahead
Cesar Davila | February 14So far in 2011, illnesses, injuries and even the cold weather can’t slow down the UNM track and field team. The Lobos had another positive performance Friday during the Don Kirby Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Sports
Locksley tweaks coaching staff
Ryan Tomari | February 14After enduring another off season, head football coach Mike Locksley continues to fine-tune his coaching staff in the offseason. On Thursday, Locksley promoted quarterbacks coach Dan Reeves to offensive coordinator, one of four personnel shakeups that the third-year head coach hopes will lead to a turnaround in 2011.
Sports
NFL player’s son lands on roster
Ryan Tomari | February 14Almost a week after National Signing Day, head coach Mike Locksley continues to pluck up recruits.
Sports
Second-half surge was great, but too late
Ryan Tomari | February 14Snapped. The UNM men’s basketball team’s four-game conference winning streak was halted Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Lobos, plagued by a poor first-half shooting performance, fell to the Rams 68-62 for the first time in head coach Steve Alford’s UNM career. Alford, who was 7-0 against the Rams, said UNM is just going through a phase where it simply can’t hit shots.
Opinion
ASUNM court wants to make government more accessible
February 14Editor, In my year and a half on the ASUNM Student Court, we have not heard a single case. This isn’t to say that we’ve done nothing in this time.
Opinion
Bills leave Lottery’s future to chance
Danny Hernandez | February 14New Mexico’s state-run universities’ and colleges’ primary task is educating New Mexicans. Unfortunately, many graduating New Mexico high school seniors have traditionally forgone pursuing higher education because they lack financial resources.
News
Area construction results in shuttle detour
Barron Jones | February 14The City of Albuquerque announced construction plans that will force UNM’s south lot shuttle to use an alternate route. Beginning Feb. 21, all traffic on Yale Boulevard between Avenida Cesar Chavez and Lead Avenue will shut down as crews begin ripping up concrete in order to install a drainage system under the road.
News
Random acts of kindness help students connect
Kallie Red-Horse | February 14Warm your heart by acting kindly this Valentine’s day. Today marks the first day of Random Acts of Kindness Week, and UNM is celebrating with donation drives for the Albuquerque Rescue Mission and Cuidando los Niños. An act of kindness is something as simple as walking a friend’s dog, Kimmerly Kloeppel, Interim Dean of Students said.
News
Senator proposes 16-month window for Lottery
Shaun Griswold | February 14The House Education Committee will debate today the feasibility of extending students’ time to apply for the Lottery Scholarship. Opponents of the bill, including ASUNM, said tinkering with the Lottery Scholarship fund is unwise because the fund is facing financial implications that could gut the program. Legislation says high school graduates must immediately enroll in college in order to qualify for the scholarship, but the bill, if passed, would allow students a 16-month period to enroll in college after graduating high school. The measure’s sponsor, Rep.
