Editor, Billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money are being used overseas every day. Empire building is not something that can be done on the cheap.
Editor, This is an open letter to UNM’s amateur graffitists. We have all seen your recent work on the pavements and walls around campus, the anarchy symbols coupled with what I’m sure you think is witty profanity-laden discourse on religion and politics.
Editor, The title of surrealist sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s novel, Now Wait For Last Year, may adequately express the anxieties and disquiet of the arts and sciences faculty following their recent meeting with UNM President David Schmidly and the other members of Schmidly’s “executive cabinet.” Imagine our surprise as we listened to President Schmidly appear to cave on almost all of the demands the faculty have been making these past two years. President Schmidly could not say enough about his desire to hire more faculty — as many as possible, he noted, what with the astonishing increase in enrollment.
Editor, I cannot believe the overt hypocrisy that lies within the pages of the Daily Lobo. While a valid news source is fact driven, the Daily Lobo shames itself with articles that often have a skewed point of view.
Editor, Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in fate? Everyone has heard, “He was destined to be a (blank). It was his fate.” Is what you are studying today leading to your destiny?
Raymond Plotkin exhibited flu-like symptoms five days before checking into UNM Hospital, where he died Wednesday with what appears to be the H1N1 virus. Plotkin’s roommate, Esteban Martinez, said the freshman locked himself in his room and stayed away from classes to avoid spreading the illness before he was hospitalized.
Sean Luce helps patients in Berkeley, Calif., get medical marijuana. Narelle Ellington wants heroin addicts to have access to clean needles. Maria Mercedes Moreno works to secure human rights for coca growers. Advocacy groups from around the world and across the political spectrum converged in Albuquerque for the International Drug Policy Reform Conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center last week. These groups included Luce’s Berkeley Patients Group, Ellington’s Harm Reduction Coalition and Moreno’s Mama Coca, as well as the UNM Health Sciences Center’s Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and dozens more.
Now and again, the UNM women’s basketball team will face an oddball squad that gives them problems. That happened on Sunday at The Pit, though the Lobos, thanks to some adept coaching from head coach Don Flanagan, got past Florida Gulf Coast’s lineup traps for an 80-64 victory. The Lobos advance to face Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Wednesday. FGCU was quite the conundrum for the UNM women’s basketball team. What the Eagles lacked in size, they made up for in grit, constantly hounding the Lobos’ post players with busy hands.
UC-Riverside was finished almost before the game began. The game was close — for all of five minutes.
The low post seemed to be a big problem for the UNM men’s basketball team. Hold your horses. Will Brown and A.J.
Somehow, some way, the UNM football team finds new ways to beat themselves every week. Even though it seemed the Lobos had a fighting chance, they again shot themselves in the foot, almost literally, in a matchup against BYU at University Stadium on Saturday. The Lobos lost to No.
Two teams, two different futures. The men’s and women’s cross country teams hosted the NCAA Mountain Regional at the UNM Championship Golf Course on Saturday, but the Lobos couldn’t keep up the momentum they built in their previous victories. It was a bitter weekend following both teams’ title sweeps at the Mountain West Conference Championships the week before. The men’s team followed up that performance by finishing third in Saturday’s event and will advance to nationals, pending the mere formality of an at-large bid, which shouldn’t be a problem. The women’s team turned in an uncharacteristic performance, coming in fifth place, after finishing first in the Mountain West Conference Championships. That left them in a tough spot, head coach Joe Franklin said. “Nationals is still possible,” he said.
Editor, I have known and played soccer with Elizabeth Lambert for almost three years at the University of New Mexico.
A UNM student and on-campus resident has died from what appears to be the H1N1 virus. Raymond Plotkin, an 18-year-old freshman who lived in the Redondo Village Apartments, died Wednesday night at University Hospital, according to an e-mail sent by Resident Life and Student Housing to all on-campus residents. “Residence Life and Student Housing (RLSH) sorrowfully wants to inform you that a resident of Redondo Village has died,” the e-mail stated.
The UNM men’s soccer team’s fate hinges on how it does when the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament, which got underway on Thursday in Denver. After finishing second in conference with a 5-2 league record behind undefeated Sacramento State, the conference tournament has become a must-win for the Lobos. After Saturday’s crucial 2-0 win over UNLV, the Lobos were guaranteed the second seed, which assured them a bye game in the first round. “That last win was huge,” said sophomore standout Michael Green.
Mike Locksley may just have an undiagnosed case of dissociative amnesia. The same could be said of the UNM football team. Neither Locksley nor defensive end Jaymar Latchison can recall the Lobos’ series record against BYU: 43-14-1. Curiously, Locksley rapidly rattled off a barrage of statistics during Tuesday’s weekly media luncheon. But when it came to the Lobos’ record against ranked BYU squads, Locksley conveniently skipped over it, until a reporter brought it to his attention. “I like to have selective memory when it comes to negative things, for the most part,” he said. He kind of has to, since UNM, when facing the Cougars while ranked, has managed just an anemic 1-15 record.
And so begins a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of a motion picture starring Darington “Butter” Hobson, the UNM men’s basketball team’s junior college transfer, widely thought to be former Lobo men’s basketball swingman J.R.
As a young player, sophomore guard Lauren Taylor wasn’t strong, she wasn’t quick and she didn’t have hops.
Men’s 09 Starting line The 2009-10 UNM men’s basketball team’s season will be much like an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” for head coach Steve Alford. Super sleuth Alford will have to figure out one looming question: How can the Lobos repeat their performance from a year ago? The Lobos, who are picked to finish fifth in the Mountain West Conference, have only one senior leader, Roman Martinez.
Students passing the north end of the SUB on Tuesdays and Thursdays will have to find their own beat to walk to.
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