Disclaimer: This column is satire. Dear UNM Administrators, Mike Locksley and message board bloggers: Season’s greetings from your sports editor at the Daily Lobo.It’s been a tumultuous year filled with embarrassment, angst and disappointment. Understandably, at this point, it’s safe to assume that I’m not your favorite person to interact with.
Explora of Albuquerque promotes science, technology and art. The center, at 1701 Mountain Road N.W., lets community members of all ages learn through interactive exhibits.
If you happened to wander by the Guild Cinema Saturday or Sunday afternoon, you might have seen a van parked outside with hundreds of brass ornaments and trinkets and $15,000 in Susan B.
Editor, UNM soccer player Elizabeth Lambert made Time Magazine’s Top 10 Pariahs, along with Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom, and Bernie Madoff. While Lambert’s actions were reprehensible, the appropriate discipline was meted out and we need to place the whole matter into perspective, relative to some of the others on the list. Lambert’s actions took place amidst an already heated physical contest with a conference rival. We watch football players cheap shot, trip, hold and brawl constantly.
Editor, Sprouting possibilities, growing potential, it is great to see more and more people interested in sustainable practices and sustainable methods here at the University of New Mexico.
A UNM graduate student is fighting to complete his master’s degree after he was deported in August.Immigration offcials arrested student “Juan Santiago” on campus this summer, Santiago said. Santiago requested his name be changed to avoid repercussions as he tries to return to America. Enrique Lamadrid, chairman of Spanish and Portuguese, said Santiago is not the only student who left UNM because of deportation issues.
I’m sorry to say that, quite frequently, sex is either dull or weird. It’s hardly ever red rose petals and a seductive wink — or even basically “hot” — so we ought to get over that daydream.
How can Christmas lights help improve the city’s air quality and feed some residents of the Student Ghetto during a cold winter? F.
Katie Carillo painted a picture of a spilled strawberry ice cream cone with bugs overwhelming the mess for her final project in a painting class.
Philip Bock protested outside of Popejoy Hall on Wednesday just like he did 40 years ago. Bock, a retired anthropology professor, held basically the same sign and had the same message, while the same performance went on inside Popejoy — Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem.” Forty years ago, Bock said he and a dozen other protesters stood outside the performance hall to speak against the Vietnam War. “We didn’t argue with people,” he said.
Thanks to a design by students for students, the dirt field outside the Centennial Engineering Building will no longer be an eyesore next semester. Tapy Hall housed the civil engineering department until Aug.
The pot pioneers of New Mexico are meeting in Santa Fe on Friday to show support for the Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Program. The DOH is holding the meeting to consider approving new medical conditions, including Hepatitis C, that could warrant patients having a cannabis I.D.
Pre-historic caverns in Carlsbad may have put the small city on the map, but locals are concerned a man-made cavern might take the city off it. Salt mining has left a cavity beneath a main intersection on the south side of town that threatens to collapse any day, said George Veni, member of a city committee working on the issue. “What we have right now is a cavity down below.
In a few short months, students living in the Hokona residence hall will have fresh vegetables growing outside their windows. Alex Borowski, a freshman living in Hokona, planted a garden in the courtyard about a month ago, and he said most of the produce should be ready by March or April. “It used to just be this big patch of dirt.
By the end of this week, the Agora Crisis Center may reach a record 10,000 calls for the year, said Jeremy Jaramillo, ACC director of public relations. Jaramillo said when he first started working at Agora nine years ago, the center received about 1,200 calls per year. “We’ve been increasing steadily,” he said. The Agora Crisis Center is an all-issue hotline that community members can call to talk about issues from everyday stress to suicides in progress.
The launch of the UNM Foundation’s fundraising campaign next fall will coincide with a transition of the organization’s administration. Foundation President John Stropp announced Friday that he plans to retire at the end of this fiscal year, after a replacement is found and trained for his position. In January, the Foundation should launch a nationwide search for a replacement who can take over the campaign, Stropp said. Stropp, 65, became Foundation president in June 2008.
The number of requests for public records has increased more than twofold this year, forcing the University Custodian of Public Records to ask for narrowed searches and extended deadlines. Between 2005 and 2008, the average number of Information and Public Records Act requests was 65.
When it comes to turnarounds in NCAA Division I volleyball, Jeff Nelson has orchestrated the ultimate at UNM. When Nelson arrived in Albuquerque in 2007, the Lobos were in the middle of 13 straight losing seasons and a 32-88 stretch in Mountain West Conference play. A perennial MWC cellar dweller prior to his arrival, the Lobos have now posted three straight winning seasons under Nelson’s guidance.
The UNM men’s basketball team is potentially two consecutive wins away from a national ranking. The Lobos (8-0) are floating around the outskirts of the top 25 poll — getting votes in the AP and USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll. And if college basketball kept track of the top 50, the Lobos would be ranked about 35th.
Is the UNM women’s basketball team in the midst of an identity crisis? Truthfully, the Lobos’ play is, at this point, utterly amorphous, and UNM has yet to form a composite personality this season. In their losses, the Lobos (5-3) have been in a stream of consciousness disarray. There have been bright spots, like, say, center Valerie Kast scoring 14 points in a 65-55 loss to Texas Tech. But inconsistency has held UNM back, point guard Amy Beggin said.
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