Editor, It is absolutely ridiculous to move the Financial Aid and Scholarship offices off Main Campus. Main Campus is the flagship of the University, and all of its student services should be available there. These services should be located in a convenient place where most of the students are.
Greek Life organizations at UNM and NMSU collected 21,447 pounds of food during a three-week competition. "The goal of the competition was to help those in need and still have fun," said Lauren Haggerty, UNM's Panhellenic Council adviser. The winner of the competition was announced during halftime of Saturday's football game in Las Cruces.
Two New Mexican scientists are determined to find a natural cure for cancer. The National Institutes of Health commissioned Tim Lowrey and Wim Steelant to research the effects of two plants - Ligusticum porteri, or "Osha," and Anemopsis californicai, or "Yerba Mansa" -- which New Mexicans have traditionally used to treat illnesses.
Choking as a career path may draw incredulous stares from many, but that is the life choice of Victor Mancini, the lead character of the film "Choke." Based on the 2001 novel Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk, the movie chronicles the conflicted life of Victor. Victor is a sex-addicted con man working in a living museum of Colonial America.
Perhaps Albuquerque isn't the first place you'd think of when looking for backyard chicken coops, but many New Mexicans are discovering the city is a good place to start an urban farm. UNM graduate student KT LaBadie, who started the Urban Chickens project in Albuquerque in 2007, said interest in urban chickens is growing throughout New Mexico.
The Maxwell Museum opened the Ortiz Center Gathering Space on Friday, which intends to make anthropology more accessible to UNM students and community members. "In public anthropology, we take anthropology out of the academy and into the community," said Elena Ortiz, daughter of the late Alfonso Ortiz, for whom the center is named.
Editor, Welcome to the social event of the season: the gathering of goal-oriented goal-getters. Welcome to a Saturday on South Campus: a Lobo football game. I come from the Northeast. It's a place where sports loyalty is fundamentally established. So it came as a shock to me when I found an overall lack of enthusiasm toward the game's outcome.
The UNM softball team wasted no time in its first two games of the fall season. The Lobos run-ruled West Texas A&M twice Saturday, beating them 8-0 in both games. Senior pitcher Analise Rubalcava threw a one-hitter in the first game but credited the entire team.
LAS CRUCES - Paul Baker didn't get the memo that the UNM football team belonged to Rodney Ferguson. The 5-feet-7-inch, 198 pound Baker, who is known for his nimble running style, rammed out 146 yards on 37 rushes Saturday against the New Mexico State Aggies.
The College & Career-Ready Policy Institute is raising standards for New Mexican high school students to prepare them for higher education. The institute is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and will benefit eight states, including New Mexico, that pledged to raise education standards.
LAS CRUCES - UNM cornerback Glover Quin capped Saturday night with a message for Aggie fans. "Tell them to get in their little bitty cars and drive home," he said. Of course, NMSU was already home. It was the sweetest possible way for the Lobos to win - and the most unsavory way for the Aggies to lose.
UNM College Democrats, Voto Latino and iTunes have teamed up to give students an incentive to register to vote. Students who register will receive a free, pre-loaded iTunes music card worth $5. College Democrats is working with the Hispanic Caucus to register as many Latinos as possible, said Antonio Gandara-Martinez, vice president of the College Democrats.
Daily Lobo: What was your first degree from UNM? Candice Welhausen: A B.A. in communication and journalism. DL: And now you've come back for a Ph.D.? CW: Yes, I have a master's in English and professional writing, and I'm finishing my Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition, which is teaching writing and the study of argument.
ASUNM will hold a town-hall meeting in the SUB Atrium on Oct. 15 for students who have questions about which Student Services departments will be split or moved during the creation of the Student Success Center. The center will be housed in the old Lockheed Martin building, across from CNM on University Boulevard and Avenida Cesar Chavez.
Editor, If you regularly eat at the La Posada cafeteria, you will have noticed the signs on the doors for "tray-less days," which entails making everyone go without a tray for at least one day of the week. No trays; you carry your own plate. According to the signs, it will save food and lower energy costs and water use given the fact that they will have less to wash.
After coming out smokin' and leading its nearest competitor by five strokes, the UNM men's golf team let its lead slip away to UNLV in the last 18 holes Saturday. The Lobos, who hosted the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate Tournament, took second place with a combined score of 1-under par - 11 strokes behind UNLV.
Tensions ran high at the UNM-NMSU game Saturday, but the Lobos and Aggies weren't the only squads facing off in Las Cruces. Sparks also flew between students at the Democrat and Republican tents outside Aggie Memorial Stadium, as each side debated who won Friday's presidential debate.Freshman Ian Patterson-Schnell, who works with Students for Barack Obama at NMSU, said Obama was successful in the debate because he was straightforward with his responses and addressed issues people are concerned about.
Editor, Although the Beijing Olympics are over, their many abominations are not. Twenty years after the 1988 Seoul Olympics doping scandal, athletes around the world still say that if Canadian sprint star Ben Johnson had been a U.S. athlete, he would have kept his gold medal.
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