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On Wednesday, she drank three gallons of water. On Thursday, she didn't drink any. "I feel like I'm going nuts," body builder Christina Schofield said. "I will not be able to sleep because I will be so thirsty." After Saturday's body building competition at the Hiland Theater, she said all she wanted was a gallon of water.
The School of Medicine accepts 10 percent of its applicants every year. Medical student Christine Lovato was accepted on her first try, but has friends who tried several times and were turned away. "It's kind of tough," Lovato said. "It's highly competitive.
In an effort to prevent a flu season as bad as last year's, UNM Hospital will use a grant to administer 35,000 free flu vaccinations to UNM students. The grant was a result of the UNMH Immunization Project, which tries to increase the immunization rate in New Mexico.
Lack of paper trail troubles electronic voting critics Skeptics of electronic voting machines worry that they lack an adequate paper trail to catch or fix discrepancies. They point to a 12,000-vote discrepancy in 2002 caused by a software glitch in Bernalillo County that stalled certification of results.
Orlin Cole sat at his kitchen table with a President Bush biography in front of him. "I didn't believe that book would change my mind, but it has a little bit," he said. "I don't think he's helpless like I used to think." America is in deep trouble, Cole said, adding Bush has a tough job to do.
Staff Report President Louis Caldera filled the slot for vice president for institutional advancement and president of the UNM Foundation on Friday. Michael Carroll left his position at Rutgers, New Jersey's state university, where he has been vice president for development and alumni relations and president of the Rutgers University Foundation for seven years.
With funding to New Mexico AIDS Services facing state and federal cuts, Saturday's AIDS Walk is especially important, said Maggie Smith, director of resource development. Cuts to its budget were made July 1, Smith said. But since that time, the money was given back to the program, she said.
As New Mexico scrutinizes its voter ID requirements, Richard PÇrez brings a film that looks at voting procedures nationwide to UNM. "Unprecedented" will be shown at the Southwest Film Center and is designed to re-ignite a fire under Democrats and make Republicans take an honest look at their party's actions, according to the Web site.
by Jessica Scarpati The Daily Free Press (U-WIRE) BOSTON - If you're sick of the same-old, same-old in bed, a group of Harvard and Columbia University alumni are hoping college students will try a new type of orgasm that can only be obtained through voting - a votergasm.
Jessie Miles junior English/pre-law "I have to think that the Lobos are going to win because if they don't, I made the wrong decision transferring here." Maleri Randour freshman nursing "Lobos because we beat Texas Tech." Doreen Zamora freshman pharmacy "Lobos because they have so much team spirit back here backing them up, wanting them to win.
Not all international students are greeted by someone when they arrive at the airport. Desiree Kosciulek said sometimes they don't even have a place to stay. Kosciulek is the president of the Study Abroad Association, a new student organization at UNM.
One UNM student stays in a mansion one step down from a castle when she visits her second home. Alaa Ishak a member of Jordan's royal family, Hashimi, is working on a bachelor's degree at UNM. Ishak's mother is a descendant of the Hashimi king of Jordan.
Hurricane gives LSU students a vacation BATON ROUGE, La. (U-WIRE) - The first thing that popped into the minds of most Louisiana State University students after hearing that there was a hurricane brewing in the Gulf of Mexico last week was not fear - but rather sheer joy.
The goal is to control all the land. "It is really the only opportunity for the campus to expand," said Kim Murphy, director of UNM's Real Estate Department. "We've been around for 100 and some odd years, and we're gong to be around for another 100 more years.
Gender roles haven't changed much in the last 50 years says Jennifer Jones, professor of psychology of human sexuality. "I think they haven't changed enough, unfortunately," she said in an e-mail interview. "In many ways, Victorian ideas about sexuality and gender still persist today.
by Alex Williams Daily Lobo If cleanliness truly is next to godliness, he might be called Zeus. Alfigopete Ramirez is one of 36 night custodians at UNM. Between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., while most people are sleeping, Ramirez is working to keep the campus clean.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., introduced a bill to the U.S. Senate that would require first-time voters who registered with canvassers to show ID at the polls. If passed, the bill would take effect immediately and cover all people who registered since the Help America Vote Act took effect Jan.
Cheese nachos, sclerosis - Henry Cisneros has had his name pronounced many ways. When he came to the SUB on Wednesday for the Arthur A. Blumenfeld Memorial Lecture, he said he had a reasonable chance UNM would get it right. Cisneros was one of the first Hispanic mayors of a major U.
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