For many, smoking weed and food are synonymous with one another. With 4/20 getting closer, there are plenty of places to get your eat on when the munchies hit, especially near campus. As a self-proclaimed food savant, I will take you through the five best places to eat while stoned. But first...
Undergraduate Kacie Coffey explores how coral reefs contribute to the ocean’s diversity in a recent UNM BioBlog. Ranging from how a fish’s imprecise eating habits contribute to soft, sandy beaches to the formation of attols, Kacie discusses how undersea coral reefs contribute to the world’s biodiversity.
Editor, Seventeen years ago, April 7 was the last time I rode in any car! I have not owned a car for 38 years. I condemn wars for oil! I condemn fracking. Cars cause catastrophic climate chaos. Cars poison the air. Highways, streets, parking lots and garages smother millions of acres of fertile soil needed for growing food and trees. Trees soak up the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and provide needed oxygen. I save much money! No car repairs, no parking and traffic tickets, no car vandalism, no flat tires, no car insurance, no monthly payments, no car theft.
I appreciated reading the Daily Lobo’s recent article about the history of the Lottery Scholarship, as it is extremely concerning to many students that the Lottery Scholarship is covering less and less of our tuition every year. As reported, students almost lost more scholarship funding during this past 2018 legislative session because of a bill that would have eliminated the law guaranteeing the scholarship fund 30 percent of lottery revenues and replacing that guarantee with a $38 million, later $40 million, floor. As it was introduced, this bill provided no incentive for the New Mexico Lottery to ever expand our scholarship fund, or even continue to provide the $42 million a year that it has received on average for the past decade.
Waking up and browsing Facebook is a common, often daily activity for the average individual in this day and age. Just as common is the barrage of memes and graphics plastered across the screen when logging in. These memes and graphics vary in accuracy, with some ranging from insanely inaccurate to strangely true. One graphic circulating on the site can be filed under the strangely true category.
Praise be to God that the ugly seven year war in Syria seems to be nearing its end.
Editor, Trump road the slimmest of victories to the presidency only 17 months ago. He got there through the support of conservatives from the right wing upset about the former president’s policies. In the short time since, the president has managed to increase the federal deficit more so than any other comparable period of any other president in all of American history.
Editor, It is common to hear Republicans and Libertarians say that less government is the solution to people's problems. This idea is not new and it has it's genesis in the writings of Thomas Robert Malthus. According to their Malthusian logic programs like food stamps, medicaid, social security and affirmative action should be eliminated, because government should not interfere with the wild west capitalism. Malthus argued that human population growth would eventually exceed the amount of food that was being produced; therefore he concluded that war, disease and famine were necessary in order to not exhaust the planet's limited resources.
Esperanto is sometimes referred to as “the International Language,” according to esperanto.net. Unlike traditional languages, such as English, Spanish or Chinese, which have naturally emerged over many hundreds or even thousands of years, Esperanto was intentionally invented by one person. Esperanto estas foje nomata "Internacia Lingvo" laŭ esperanto.net. Kontraste al tradiciaj lingvoj, kiel ekzemple la angla, hispana aŭ ĉina, kiuj nature evoluis dum multaj centoj aŭ eĉ miloj da jaroj, Esperanton intence inventis unu persono.
I am from Faisalabad, Pakistan and am currently a Ph.D. Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies candidate at the University of New Mexico. میں فیصل آباد پاکستان توں تعلق رکھدا آں تےاج کل یونیورسٹی آف نیو میکسیکو(یو این ایم) دے شعبے زبان، خواندگی تے معاشرتی علوم اچ پی ایچ ڈی دا طالب علم آں۔ میرا پہلا واہ یونیورسٹی آف نیو میکسیکو دے نال ٢٠١٤ اچ پیا جدوں ایچ ای سی دے ٩٠ فیصد آلے غیر ملکی وظیفے دے نال میں ایتھے پی ایچ ڈی واسطے درخواست دتی۔ دنیا دیاں بوہھوں ساریاں چنگیاں یونیورسٹیاں دا گھر ہون دی وجہ توں امریکا میرا پہلا انتخاب بنیا۔حالانکہ ایچ ای سی دی فہرست اچ یورپ تے ایشیا دیاں ہور وی یونیورسٹیاں موجود سن ۔ اپریل ٢٣، ٢٠١٥ دی شام نوں اپنی منزل البقرقی، نیو میکسیکو جاندیاں ہویاں میں نیو یارک دے جے ایف کینیڈی ہوائی اڈےاتے آپنا پہلا قدم رکھیا۔
“Ce ne sont que des mouches, Matthieu.” “They’re just flies, Matthieu,” my dad said to me. “Ce ne sont que des mouches, Matthieu,” me dit mon père.
It is easy to claim — on behalf of a nation, on behalf of a generation, on behalf of yourself as an individual — a progressive attitude much too advanced for destructive, discriminatory ideologies. It is easy to believe and maintain that you see beyond borders, that a common identity as humans makes differences in nationalities or cultures immaterial and arbitrary. Es fácil reclamar — en nombre de una nación, en nombre de una generación, en nombre de usted como individuo — una actitud progresista demasiada avanzada para ideologías destructivas y discriminatorias. Es fácil creer y mantener que usted ve más allá de las fronteras, que una identidad común como los humanos hace diferencias en nacionalidades o culturas inmateriales y arbitrarias.
The University of New Mexico’s Global Education Office has more than 250 programs held in 52 countries and spoken in 27 different languages. Students can receive credits toward graduation, depending on their program. ニューメキシコ大学（UNM）グローバルエデュケーションオフィス（GEO）には、52ヶ国、27言語での250以上の留学プログラムがあります。プログラムに応じて、卒業所要単位の取得が可能です。
In New Mexico, Spanish is a popular second language usually followed by French and German. My advisor told me this was due to its comparison to English. 在新墨西哥州，西班牙语是很流行的第二语言，继而是法语和德语。我的辅导老师告诉我这是因为这些语言跟英语很接近。
Editor, Like many people, I am able to be openly and honestly in love with more than one person at the same time. We teach children to share food, toys and friends. How selfish, how cruel the child who demands that his child friend have no other friends or playmates! We adults can learn to share our lovers with others.
Editor, It has unfortunately become par for the course nowadays in U.S. politics for Zionists to conflate criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism. Antisemitism is an ugly phenomenon which has negatively affected Jewish people throughout the ages, and all decent people should condemn it. With all that being said, I must give a tip of the hat to Sen. Bernie Sanders for using his Twitter account to criticize the state of Israel for murdering 17 Palestinians who were carrying out a peaceful protest in Gaza. The lack of human rights for Palestinians has been ignored for far too long by U.S. politicians, because they fear losing the financial support of pro-Israeli lobbies like AIPAC.
Editor, According to President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Oakland, California mayor Libby Schaaf prevented nearly 800 arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in early March. That sounds like wishful thinking, but presumably Schaaf's warning to the public of impending ICE sweeps helped at least some undocumented immigrants avoid the dragnet. Mayor Schaaf is due our gratitude for her heroism. These ICE raids highlight one side of the case for for reining in (or better yet abolishing) ICE and its sister agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Border patrol. That side is the human cost to immigrants: workers yanked from factories and farms. Families torn asunder. People seeking better lives dying of dehydration in the wilderness because water caches are destroyed or killed in crashes as they flee their would-be abductors.
Editor, I wish we had a fair, loving, all-powerful parent God who would rescue all who fervently prayed for help from war, starvation, cancer, addiction, tornadoes, drought, drunk drivers, rape, family violence, blindness, false charges, drones, torture and much more. Hundreds of millions of people throughout human history have prayed desperately to God the best they knew how and received no help.
Editor, The University should build a homeless shelter on campus. Students and the unsheltered ought to be allies, not enemies. Yet in the three years I've been at UNM, I've seen nothing but disdain for the homeless coming from my fellow students. I've seen students walk past someone lying motionless on the sidewalk — no one stopping to help. I've seen opinion pieces that lay the blame for violence on the "shelter" of some bushes near the dorms. I've seen people walk on by from folks without homes who only wanted to ask the time. I've seen a woman wailing in the street because she had nowhere to go.
When it comes to the arts, catering to norms can be stifling. Contemporary classical music is a little-known world that brings a variety of approaches to the creation of sound within time and space, and none of these approaches can be described as completely normative. Most notably, composers in this world are alive and able to interact with other intellects and musical voices — something that Mozart and Beethoven simply cannot do. To most, this may not seem like a big deal when compared to popular contemporary musicians like Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Kanye West. These artists are alive, if not accessible. However the world of classical concert music is plagued by nostalgia, where new music often slides back to include music from the late 19th century.
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