Editor, It is the beginning of another semester, and, as I understand it, this is the time for Greek rush. There are many social fraternities and sororities that are highly respected on campus, but one different kind of fraternity is left unnoticed. This is not your typical fraternity.
The No. 23 UNM women's basketball team was derailed Wednesday at The Pit by San Diego State, 57-52. The loss snapped an 11-game home winning streak for the Lobos and knocked UNM down to 14-3 overall and 3-1 in the Mountain West Conference. "We just never got our offense going," head coach Don Flanagan said.
Fencing is physical chess, said Andy Carey, organizer of the UNM Fencing Club. "There's about 15 people in the club, but how many show up on one night can vary a lot," Carey said. Fencing was one of the first clubs started at UNM in 1896, Carey said. Since then, the club has been re-founded many times, most recently in 2003.
Songwriter David Eugene Edwards is a doom minstrel from the Old Testament. "The Old Testament - we were under the law, and the law was never appointed to save us," the Woven Hand frontman said. With new album Ten Stones under its belt, the Denver band stops by the Launchpad on Saturday.
Better education can lead to better ejaculation, according to research done in part by UNM psychology professor Geoffrey Miller. Miller and his research group found that more-intelligent men have a higher sperm count and more-mobile sperm than their less-educated counterparts.
Editor, I am so sick of letters by the dogmatic right on issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Do these people actually desire a return to back-alley abortions, which would be inevitable should they get their wish and criminalize abortion? Or do they want an all-powerful state that determines matters between private individuals, such as marriage? If so, I urge people like Phillip Howell, Slowhike and The Ghost (persons who post drivel on the Daily Lobo message boards) to move to a state more in line with their type of thinking, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia or the parts of Afghanistan that have reverted to Taliban control.
Dijana Milosevic wants to talk tea. She flew across Europe, above the Atlantic and over several states to direct a play about three women talking tea. But it's more than just tea. It's about its history. A rich history. A history that spans from the dawn of civilization, highlighting the greatness of humanity: how man achieved flight.
From above, Johnson Center's Olympic-sized pool looks like an abandoned mine dug into one wing of the building. The center's staff doesn't know when they will be able to reopen the pool, which has been closed for remodeling since November 2007. It was less than a month away from reopening in November when the project hit a snag.
Albuquerque's first-elected sheriff is back from the dead. See for yourself at the history-infused biographical magic show Friday at the Magic Juggler Shop at 3205 Central Ave. N.E. Magician and performer Blake, who declined to give his last name, plays the ghost of sheriff Milton Yarberry, who was convicted of murder and hanged Feb.
Grad student May Goldman Shaltiel makes dichotomous, disharmonious video art. She got her BFA in photography 10 years ago in New York, where she also grew up with her hippie parents traveling from commune to commune. Since a family tragedy struck last summer, she has kept busy teaching and studying in the electronic arts program, making work, and maintaining an internship for a culture center.
For a couple of weeks, friends and other people whom I unfortunately know have joked around with me, asking how much I was looking forward to the inauguration. I am not going to lie - I have kind of been in a funk. All of the hype about it has gotten to me, and the multiple Facebook invites to speech-watching events and prayer services have not helped either.
Editor, Whom does President David Schmidly think he works for? If pressed, he would probably say he works for the good of all UNM. His actions, however, say otherwise. They include the creation of more than a dozen vice-presidential posts, most with six-figure salaries; a multi-million dollar renovation of a sports facility in the midst of a massive recession; a hiring and pay-raise freeze on all faculty, except, of course, the $750,000 football coach; a high-paid executive position for one (unqualified) Brian Schmidly; relocation of the Student Services Center to a pointlessly inconvenient off-campus location; and a raise in tuition rates to pay for it all.
Professor Richard Schaefer has sponsored broadcast journalism programs throughout North America, and now some of his students are covering President Obama's inauguration. Five undergraduate and graduate Communication and Journalism students traveled to Washington, D.
Daily Lobo: Are you involved with any student groups? Marc Rodriguez: The athletics department. DL: What's your major? MR: Sports psychology. I would like to work with top athletes and key performance. DL: Have you always been interested in that? MR: Yeah, I have been into sports.
Editor, I originally found the Barack Obama concert to be inconsequential. I believed bringing up memories and feelings of old grudges and betrayals could only bring more hate and angst into the world. People there spoke with phrases like "minority" and "long-awaited.
Editor, Enough is enough. As an eight-year employee of UNM, I'm sick and tired of the people at the top skimming off the money and then once in a great while flipping us a scrap or two off the end of their middle finger. President David Schmidly is the worst of the lot.
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