by Mike Weber Daily Lobo When Capt. Adam Loomis is a young lieutenant in Afghanistan or Iraq, he will need close air support. If that time comes, he said he will be much more comfortable with his military counterparts. Loomis is the first student leader of the Scabbard and Blade National Honor Society.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader told a packed Lobo Room at the SUB the similarities between the Democratic and Republican Parties tower over the dwindling differences, and he's running to offer a new choice. Nader said as president he would work to eliminate college tuition.
Project LINK will bring UNM's 20-year-old information systems into the 21st century. The job is in the hands of a team of UNM employees, many of whom have been pulled from their regular jobs to be a part of a multi-year endeavor called Linking Information Networks and Knowledge.
125,000 without power as storm slams S.C. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina on Sunday with near hurricane-force wind, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people.
At 7 a.m. Saturday, Fifth Street will be shut down between Central and Copper avenues. At 5 p.m. Central will be shut off between Second and Sixth streets and at 9:45 p.m., it will be shut off up to Seventh Street - all for the 2004 Alibi Fall Crawl. Fall Crawl, a night featuring over 100 national and local bands, happens every August.
On 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.
It 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.
by 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.
Adrian 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.
For 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.
Andy 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.
With 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.
Senior 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.
The 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.
Is 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.
Senior 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.
by 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.
The 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.
by 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.
The 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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