Sports
Utah kisses MWC goodbye
Tim Mousseau | June 21College football will have a much different landscape in 2011 after the conference realignment that has taken place over the last few weeks.
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Yellow journalists deserve red card
Isaac Avilucea | June 21by Isaac Avilucea Daily Lobo Oh, how we honor you, William and Joseph. If “Remember Koman Coulibaly.
News
UNM eyes new housing projects
Tricia Remark | June 21The June 17 groundbreaking ceremony for the south campus dorms wasn’t just about praising the new project.
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Activists ask Udall to DREAM
Chelsea Erven | June 21Chelsea Erven Thirty protestors chanted outside Senator Tom Udall’s downtown office June 15 trying to convince the senator to co-sponsor the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as a stand-alone bill. The DREAM Act would give undocumented immigrant students who have resided in the U.S.
Culture
Culture Blog
Chris Quintana | June 17In journalism, there is often a disconnect between the stories we preview and the events themselves.
Sports
Rainy conditions dampen results for esteemed runners
Chris Quintana | June 14UNM track and field athletes and fans alike faced a bittersweet end —but mostly bitter— to the NCAA track championships. It started with Sandy Fortner in the heptathlon, who dropped out after the shot put. Because of rainy weather conditions in Eugene, Ore., Fortner, who was ranked fifth going into the event, fouled on all three of her throw attempts, causing her to drop to 22nd in the standings. Fortner then decided to withdraw from the event.
Sports
MWC opens arms
Staff Report | June 14Welcome to the mountain top, Boise State. On June 11, Boise State University became the 10th member of the Mountain West Conference. The Broncos, who left the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), will join the MWC effective July 11, 2011. “There is no doubt the addition of Boise State strengthens the membership of the Mountain West Conference,”
Sports
Five Lobos headed to play majors
Shawn Abieta | June 14It’s the big leagues for five Lobo baseball players. The UNM baseball team had five players drafted in the 10 MLB Draft on June 8, 9 and 10. Although no Lobos were taken on the draft’s first day, four players were taken on the second day and one on the final day. The Lobos send two starting pitchers and the heart of their batting order from the 2010 season to the professional ranks.
Culture
Albuquerque festival not just for old folks
Candace Hsu | June 14Folksy fun is returning to the Duke City for the 12th time in the form of The Albuquerque Folk Festival. The lineup offers activities for the young and old.
Culture
Artist's Avenue
Chris Quintana | June 14Graham Gentz is a modern-day Renaissance man in the vein of the Shakespearean characters he portrays. Gentz, a junior majoring in creative writing and astrophysics, is an aspiring scientist, actor, screenwriter and director. He’s one of the actors in the Summer Shakespeare Festival. Also, he likes climbing trees.
News
Provost: Juarez unfit for travel
June 14A May 25 e-mail from the Provost’s Office discouraging students from traveling to Mexico caused one of UNM’s summer programs to change its plans.
News
Donate hair: Help sick kids, oil spill
Jenny Gignac | June 14Now that summer has arrived, the financial aid checks have cleared, and we have paid our bills — or most of our bills — it’s time to do something for you. The list is long for most of us on how we would like to spend a few leftover bucks. I decided on a haircut. Being of the activist mindset, and quite partial to doing a little here and there for others, I wanted to donate my hair. The best part of donating hair is it is doesn’t require extra time or extra money, like many charities require. You are already in the chair, and it’s not like you are going to save the cut hair, right?
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Students sow seeds for new garden lab
Chelsea Erven | June 14UNM is now offering a course designed to be a hands-on garden laboratory that will promote local food production. Brendan Picker, one of the class’ three teaching assistants, said the class has been in the works for awhile.
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Provost: Juarez unfit for travel
Tricia Remark | June 14A May 25 e-mail from the Provost’s Office discouraging students from traveling to Mexico caused one of UNM’s summer programs to change its plans. However, at least two other programs based in Mexico still plan on visiting the violence-ridden country. The e-mail said that Deputy Provost Richard Holder is advising students to avoid the Juarez area. It cited an El Paso Times article about a University of Texas at El Paso student who was murdered while driving on a highway outside of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
News
UNM mourns students' deaths
Shaun Griswold | June 14by Shaun Griswold Daily Lobo Two graduate students from the Civil Engineering department, Yi Huang and Mohammad Minhaz Mahdi, died June 5 in a car accident in Sandoval County. Huang, a 24-year-old student from China, and Mahdi, a 30-year-old student from Bangladesh, both died after their car slid off the road and rolled over three times, according to a representative of the Sandoval County Sheriff’s Department. The two graduate students and another student, Nasrin Sumee, were returning to Albuquerque from a hiking trip at the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument near Cochiti Pueblo. Huang died at UNM Hospital and Mahdi died at the scene, according to the police report. Sumee survived the crash and is in stable condition at UNM Hospital.
Culture
All colors of the spectrum invited to Pride Parade
Andrew Beale | June 7Albuquerque is gearing up to show its pride. The city’s annual Pride Festival kicks off this week to show support for the community’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Danny Hernandez, organizer and public relations director for Albuquerque Pride, said the organization is expecting more than 20,000 spectators to show up for the Pride parade on Saturday. “If you go out there, you’ll see that, starting at Girard and Central all the way to between Central and San Pedro, the streets are almost completely lined with people,” he said. Hernandez said the event is important to the United States gay rights movement. “Napoleon decriminalized homosexual acts in 1810,” he said.
Opinion
Professor: I didn't backpedal
June 7Editor, In wishing President Schmidly a speedy recovery from his current health problem, I did not “backpedal” (as your headline indicated). I continue to uphold the substance of my comments at the teaching awards ceremony about the deterioration in UNM’s educational mission under President Schmidly’s leadership. Howard Waitzkin UNM professor
Sports
Homeward bound after tourney loss
June 7The season and the dream are over. Lobo head coach Ray Birmingham was able to deliver on his promise and take the UNM baseball team to the NCAA baseball championship after only three years with UNM. The UNM baseball team was eliminated Sunday from the NCAA tournament by Cal-State Fullerton, 11-3, in the NCAA Fullerton Region. The tournament appearance for the Lobos was the first since 1962, a 48-year drought. The Titans put up a two-run home run in the first inning by Corey Jones and CSF added two more in the third inning to go up 5-0. Cal-State Fullerton never looked back. The Lobos did mend the wounds by scoring two runs in the bottom off of a Daniel Gonzalez single. Senior Max Willett added to the Lobos’ tally by a single of his own. Cal-State Fullerton’s Nick Ramirez hit a solo home run in the bottom of the third and ended Lobos starting pitcher Mike Lachapelle. Kenny Toves allowed another run in the inning and added to the Titans score, 7-2. UNM finished with a 38-22 record and won the first game of the Fullerton Region with a victory over Stanford on Friday. However, the Lobos lost to Minnesota, 7-4, on Saturday to move into the consolation bracket. If the Lobos had beaten CSF, they would have played Minnesota again on Sunday night for the opportunity to advance to the Super Regionals of the tournament.
Sports
Alford is back to basics for kids' summer camps
Shaun Griswold | June 7Michael Jordan once said, “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way.” Jordan’s wisdom became philosophy during Lobo head basketball coach Steve Alford’s basketball camp last week at the Rudy Davalos Center, one of many camps scheduled throughout the summer.
Sports
Track stars off to the races in Oregon
Chris Quintana | June 7by Chris Quintana Daily Lobo Six of UNM’s best athletes gathered outside UNM’s track Friday for interviews, but everyone could tell their minds were already at Hayward Field, the venue for the NCAA Championships. When championships kick off Wednesday in Eugene, Ore., the Lobos will send seven representatives to compete — Lee Emanuel, Jacob Kirwa, Chris Barnicle, Ruth Senior, Sandy Fortner, Deanna Young and Lamaar Thomas. Of the seven, five — Emanuel, Kirwa, Barnicle, Senior and Thomas — will compete in track events, while Young will look to bring home hardware in the triple jump and Fortner in the grueling heptathalon.
