Students count on UNMPD to protect them from burglars and other dangers in the middle of the night, and the department responds to many such incidents. UNMPD relies on student patrols, which walk the University campus during the night to report suspicious happenings, said UNMPD spokesman Hector Terrazas.
Twelve-year-old fundraising activist Bilaal Rajan has raised more than $5 million for humanitarian causes. It all started with an earthquake and a clementine. He said that eight years ago, he climbed onto his parents' breakfast table and saw a photo in the newspaper of flattened houses and scattered buildings.
Editor, A recent ad in the Daily Lobo asserts that the extermination of Jews in World War II was a hoax and challenges "professors" to provide proof of the extermination. Since when is it OK to advance a proposition and then shift the burden of proof to others? The extermination of Jews by the Nazis was first reported in the New York Times on July 3, 1944, and was therefore a contemporaneous account.
Faculty members are reactivating the UNM chapter of a national organization of university professors, hoping to strengthen their voice in the outcry against UNM's administration. The American Association of University Professors counts more than 45,000 professors as members.
Last weekend, thousands of people from all over the world escaped to Coachella, a music and arts festival in Indio, Calif. People drove, flew and carpooled to Empire Polo Field for three days of music, towering sculptures, camping and a good time. This year's headliners were Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure.
Editor, "Counterculture"? Seems to me marijuana usage is more mainstream these days. There are lots of people who indulge in the green, not saying any names, but governors, professors, M.D.s, organization officials, law graduates, undergraduates, etc. Hell, there's even a restaurant designed to tap the pot-smoker market: Cheba Hut.
Editor, Last week, the CIA paid a visit to campus in an event sponsored by Inspire Anderson Marketing. A student club sponsoring a top terrorist organization? What a shame. It is sad that ignorance has again come to stain the floor of our University. Do these UNM students know that the organization they brought to campus has a history that, for more than 60 years, includes planning and carrying out coups d'état and supporting dictators? Do they know that this organization is behind the killing of students, teachers and workers? Were they told that many children and mothers never saw their relatives again because they simply disappeared? Do they know that this organization trained some of the most sick-minded terrorists of the 21st century? Well, perhaps they should know.
Maxwell Duryea is double majoring in art studio and print journalism at UNM. He's hard-pressed to find something that doesn't inspire him to whip out his camera. Besides doing independent study, he's taking intermediate photography, art history, photo art history and sculpture.
After the Virginia Tech shootings two years ago this month, UNMPD updated campus security measures - including purchasing semiautomatic weapons - to protect students. In consideration of violent incidents that have occurred on campuses nationwide, UNMPD officials updated their equipment and training and changed the way they respond to emergencies.
Daily Lobo: Where are you from? John Humpton: I am actually living here and have been here for eight years. DL: Where did you live before that? JH: Wichita, Kan. DL: What made you move here? JH: I actually moved out here for gymnastics, because the gym I was at was closing, and I was told to come out here for a coach.
Editor, I've juggled academics and my professional life for 25 years now and, for better or worse, consider UNM to be my final resting place where I hope to finish a graduate degree this decade. Over those years, I've seen all the complaints and responses one could ever hope to see regarding the lack of communication between the undergraduate and graduate student bodies, their elected leaders, faculty and the administration with none of them ever actually making a meaningful move to change the situation.
When Jocelyn Lorena Salaz's grandmother died in 2001, she started taking art seriously. Fueled by her love for and memories of her late grandparents, she made a series of paintings and drawings of family members and religious icons, with a focus on the past.
Last fall when I announced my intention to vote for Ralph Nader for the fourth time, I was told by a number of Democrats that a vote for Nader was essentially a vote for four more years of Bush. I disagreed with them at the time, but it turns out they were right.
Lauren Gracey Freshman Education Dress: Forever 21, $10 Under layer: Forever 21, $10 Sandals: Forever 21, $7 "I feel I kind of dress like a hippie sometimes, even though I don't do hippie things." Gracey's vibrant yellow outfit fits perfectly with the blossoming flowers and sunshine.
While UNM students don't often resort to physical violence, verbal abuse is frequent, said Harry Linneman, director of Counseling and Therapy Services. Student Health and Counseling is offering an anger-management workshop today from 3 to 5 p.m. to help students anticipate those problems, Linneman said.
More than 25 hungry patrons waited in line at noon at the Cheba Hut sandwich shop Monday, hoping to take advantage of a once-a-year special. "What I love about it is it's the one day where we make this like our holiday, just the fact today everybody around the world is smoking weed," said "Angie," a marijuana user.
Sarah Cornell, assistant history professor, will present the final lecture of the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series on April 30. The lecture will be in the SUB Santa Ana rooms A and B at 3 p.m. Daily Lobo: What will you talk about during your presentation? Sarah Cornell: The lecture will look at the ideas and experiences of the diverse peoples who lived between the Southeast and Mexico over the course of the 19th century.
Editor, The U.S. Congress established the Days of Remembrance as this country's annual commemoration of Holocaust victims. These victims include not only 6 million Jews, but also millions of others killed by the Nazi regime including the mentally and physically handicapped, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), non-Jewish Polish citizens, socialists, trade unionists and political dissidents.
The three resolutions left off of the GPSA ballot last month passed with little opposition last week. Graduate and professional students voted no confidence in former Regents President Jamie Koch and requested an external audit and a re-evaluation of decision-making structures at UNM.
Solutions by The State News
