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Correction
August 27On Monday the Lobo incorrectly wrote that the Lobo men's soccer team is in the Mountain West Conference. The team participates in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
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Professor digs into historic adobe home
Mandi Kane | August 27It may have just been some dirt to the naked eye, but it was a gold mine to a trained archeologist, and time was running out. The ruins of an adobe home thought to be over a hundred years old were the focus of a three-month archeological dig in Albuquerque's North Valley, and it will conclude today.
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43 percent of students go online to save on books
August 27by Deborah Harvey Daily Lobo Textbooks can be an expensive part of attending any institution of higher learning, but students can turn to online companies such as eBay, Amazon, eCampus and Barnes & Noble. A survey commissioned by eBay showed 65 percent of students feel textbooks are expensive and more than 43 percent of students are turning to online services in order to save money on textbooks.
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Students sell books themselves
Matthew Chavez | August 27Adrian Rodriguez did not like the idea of his wallet taking a hit every semester because of his textbooks. Like other students before him, he turned to selling his old textbooks from home to offset the loss faced when reselling them to the UNM Bookstore.
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Program offsets book costs
Rivkela Brodsky | August 27For students whose textbooks cost more than $300 per semester, $125 goes a long way. Junior Chandra Stellavato and her husband found extra money through a state-funded educational assistance program called HELP. HELP, the Home Education Livelihood Program, gets state and federal grants to help students purchase textbooks each semester.
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The daily lobo asks you:Based on the first week of school, how's the semester looking?
August 27Andy Maloney First-year graduate student "It's going to be involved." Lisa Martinez Senior "Really well. I like all my classes, all my teachers. The financial aid line was horrible." Kiyun Lynch Junior "It's going to be good.
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Bush gathers support in N.M.
Mandi Kane | August 27With only two months until the 2004 presidential election, President George W. Bush visited Albuquerque Thursday in hopes of making New Mexico "Bush country" this November. The president spoke to more than 11,000 of his supporters in an afternoon rally at the Albuquerque Convention Center, said Danny Diaz, regional spokesperson for the Bush-Cheney campaign.
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Bookstore limits student accounts
Rivkela Brodsky | August 27Senior Brianna Wildgoose-Lister didn't know about account limits at the UNM Bookstore until she went over the limit one semester. "I went to buy books, and I could only go up to the limit," Wildgoose-Lister said. "I had to put the difference on my credit card.
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Survey to help UNM designate historical buildings
Felicia Fonseca | August 26The UNM historic preservation committee applied for a $120,000 grant funded by J. Paul Getty Trust and chose to look at around 60 buildings constructed before 1970. Terri Gugliotta, UNM archivist, said ti was done because those buildings are starting to get old.
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A no-nonsense look at humor
Felicia Fonseca | August 26Is a joke really funny if it's directed at a minority? Gil Greengross says no, and he's going to tell students why in a class that takes a scientific look at humor. He said if you tell him a joke about a Jewish person or an Israeli, he won't be offended because that's what he is, and he understands humor.
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APD's horses not too high
Rivkela Brodsky | August 26Senior Sean Tollison said cops on horses make Downtown feel like the Wild Wild West. The mounted patrol, an Albuquerque Police Department unit made up of four officers and a sergeant, patrol the Downtown area on a regular basis. The horse-mounted units have been used in Albuquerque since 1976.
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Getting these old walls to speak
August 26by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo A $120,000 grant awarded to UNM will help the University decide the future of some buildings on campus. The grant awarded by the J. Paul Getty Trust will fund a survey of about 60 UNM buildings constructed before 1970. University planner Joe McKinney said the campus has some of the most interesting buildings in the country.
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Regents approve board nominees
Felicia Fonseca | August 26The UNM Board of Regents approved four nominees to the Science & Technology Corp. Board of Directors on Wednesday. STC is a nonprofit corporation owned and created by UNM to promote and commercialize faculty inventions. There was no discussion about any of the nominees, a contrast from the last regents meeting, where debate ensued about three other nominees for over an hour.
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Alums start with students
August 26by Krista Pino Daily Lobo ˇ The Alumni Relations Office and Alumni Association do more than serve UNM graduates. Karen Abraham, director of the relations office and executive director of the association, said they are all about making connections through UNM and keeping them.
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Honors class examines history of war
Rivkela Brodsky | August 26The war in Iraq is the inspiration for War Cry, a class offered for the first time this semester by the University Honors Program. Instructor Margo Chavez-Charles designed the class to analyze justifications for war. "When the U.S. entered the war, I wanted to know the reasons we entered," she said.
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Campuses in the news
August 26Penn State considers Napster subscriptions (U-WIRE) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Music downloading service Napster is joining forces with Pennsylvania State University in an attempt to stifle illegal music downloading at universities. The university might decide to pay a discounted fee for Napster's basic services for students.
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Candidates clash in N.M.
Matthew Chavez | August 25The battle for New Mexico's undecided voters escalates this week with President George W. Bush, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards and Ralph Nader scheduled to campaign here within 48 hours of each other. Political Science professor Gilbert St.
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North campus goes green
Felicia Fonseca | August 25During the day, occupants of one UNM Health Sciences Center building might not need to turn on the light after it is renovated. A three-month renovation of a 50-year-old building at 915 Vassar will incorporate a "green," environmentally friendly design meant to be more cost and energy efficient.
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Parking rules strictly enforced
August 25by Krista Pino Daily Lobo UNM's Parking and Transportation Services Department issues fines that range from $15 to $100 for parking violations, and if the situation requires a boot or tow, there are additional charges. Fifteen-dollar fines are issued for simple mistakes like permit display and overtime parking at a meter, said Josh Kavanagh, associate director at the department.
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Daily Lobo earns No. 2 popular paper ranking
Marisa Demarco | August 25The Princeton Review ranked the Daily Lobo as the No. 2 "Great College Newspaper" in the country last week, putting the Lobo ahead of papers at Yale (No. 6), Duke (No. 13) and Harvard (No. 18). Howard University in Washington, D.C., holds the top spot. "I think it shows students appreciate the hard work of the Lobo staff in developing the paper, and therefore that they use the paper for information," said Bob Gassaway, chair of UNM's Student Publications Board.
