The American Medical Student Association saved the Student Health and Counseling center’s annual health fair last year by sponsoring it themselves.
Though politics can make some red-hot with frustration, the Democratic Party of New Mexico wants to show UNM students why it can be cool to go blue. The DPNM will host Campaign Blue today from 11 a.m.
The UNM student group Conservative Republicans hosted a forum Thursday for only the most bona fide, through and through Republican primary candidates. Unlike the College Republicans, who generally support any Republican candidates, the Conservative Republicans only support candidates whom they deem unequivocally conservative, said Donald Gluck, president of UNM Conservative Republicans. “We advocate for conservative principles as stated in the Declaration of Independence, as codified in the Constitution and as practiced by Ronald Reagan,” Gluck said in an e-mail.
The Lobos showed no mercy to the Red Raiders in Tuesday’s matinee duel. The UNM baseball team played Texas Tech at Isotopes Park, sealing the deal with one big inning. Tech’s sunny day was ruined by a six-hit, nine-run fifth inning by UNM and resulted in a 16-8 Lobo victory. The Lobos added four runs in the bottom of the seventh, and Rafael Neda hit a stand-up double to score two runs and UNM added two more with a Red Raider error on pitcher Justin Cooper to extend a 12-3 lead in the eighth inning. “I like to have a team that you never know who is going to be your poison that day, and that has happened every day this year,” said UNM head coach Ray Birmingham.
Editor, After the resignations of two of the six tenure-track faculty in the mathematics and statistics department, the Albuquerque Journal quoted Provost Suzanne Ortega as stating: “There’s absolutely no evidence to suggest that this particular loss of faculty or any other has diminished the quality of the instruction.” Wow!
Editor, Martin Gutierrez said he was able to raise money to get his message out, and that this demonstrates he will be able to bring money into GPSA.
Editor, Why did you close the comments section for the column “Editorial April 22” by Eva Dameron?
Editor, I would like to respond briefly to Muhajir Romero’s letter. First of all, it’s not racist for the state of Arizona to make their local immigration laws stricter.
Editor, The continued military threats from the Obama administration toward Iran are breathtaking in both their arrogance and hypocrisy.
It’s easy to end up at McDonald’s on a break between classes to grab a quick bite, but those quick bites will sometimes bite back.
Tuition increases paint a bleak picture for many students in the 2010-11 academic year, but UNM’s Parent Association is offering a life vest for students drowning in debt.
UNM undergraduate research on lightning is creating a spark in the scientific community. Students at the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations & Applications Center (COSMIAC) are designing instruments that will be used to study ionospheric activity.
About 1,000 people woke up before 10 a.m. Saturday for the ASUNM Community Experience’s Spring Storm event. Spring Storm, which coincides with the Fiestas event every year, is a community-service initiative that sends UNM students all over town to work on various projects. “Different groups around campus, as well as individual groups, sign up to do projects for us throughout the day, and we find 50, 60 projects throughout the Albuquerque area for them to do,” she said. Jennifer Hill, who participated in the event, said she was impressed by the number of people that showed up. “I think they said it was over a thousand.
The arc of their careers makes it conveniently appropriate for the cult of sports writers — unified in theme and thought — to bill this first-round NBA playoffs series as rising star versus falling star.
The UNM women’s softball team fell 9-5 behind a five-run inning from Colorado State Sunday at the UNM Softball Complex, completing a two-game sweep by the Rams. Head coach Ty Singleton, echoing John Madden’s obvious and direct style of quote, summed up the weekend in which the Lobos dropped two games and fell to 10-29 overall. “Colorado State played better than we did,” he said.
Welcome to the NFL fraternity, Erik Cook. The UNM football team’s former center was the 27th pick in the seventh round (229th overall) during the 75th annual NFL Draft.
GPSA President Lissa Knudsen was re-elected to her second term as president. She received more than 50 percent of the vote, and her opponent, Martin Gutierrez, got almost 43 percent. However, Gutierrez is asking for an independent entity to examine the elections process from beginning to end, citing several glitches from the GPSA Elections Committee and Internet Technologies. “The current administration and elections committee have not been transparent about this process,” Gutierrez said in a statement.
Elvis Presley’s voice suddenly blasted from of a boom box in the SUB Friday, as clusters of students began dancing in unison. Student Lauren Clinger said she felt thrown in the midst of a Popejoy production. “It wasn’t expected, which was really neat — kind of like a musical only in real life,” she said. UNM ballroom dance classes planned this “spontaneous” show, performing all over campus including the SUB, Zimmerman courtyard and by the Duck Pond to advertise the showcase on April 28.
Booth fee: $500 Round trip gas from Canada to Albuquerque: $850 Hotel: $350 Participating in the nation’s largest powwow: priceless.
Editor, To Rachel Maddow: Rachel, I am disturbed by your Tim McVeigh documentary. Your experts keep describing him as psychotically cold for his military attitude about his mission and his motive.
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