The women's NCAA basketball Sweet 16 field is complete, and Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt are moving on after winning first-round games held at The Pit this week. No. 6 seed Pittsburgh pulled off the only considerable upset of the games played in Albuquerque, knocking off No.
President David Schmidly announced Tuesday that Suzanne Trager Ortega will be UNM's provost. Ortega will take office Aug. 1. Schmidly said Ortega is a good fit for the job, because she has a great interest in students, is a good listener and has a sense of humor.
Editor, I'm glad to read that the UNM Board of Regents has decided to recognize parents by forming a parents' association. After all, parents and families are important to the future of UNM. But parents of UNM students aren't the only families connected to UNM.
Editor, The mob often takes out its enemies in a gruesome fashion as a way to warn others to fall in line. That could be said about the campaign over the past four years instigated by the dreaded Recording Industry Association of America, which has been on a mission to stop or slow down the practice of illegal music downloading from the Internet.
Editor, A number of articles were published recently in the Daily Lobo concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict. While the majority of them, if not all, were superficial and misleading, the last one, by Richard M. Berthold, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
In Monday's story "Coach: Lobos to rise out of ashes," the caption should have said the Lobos lost eight of nine games before spring break but have since gone on to win five of their last six. The error was made in editing.
What happens when you jam the lid on a pot with contents ready to spill over? Tibet. The obscure Himalayan country that inspired a few Hollywood flicks was a lost cause just a few weeks ago. But not anymore. The snow lion's roar may well wake up the international community to the cause of Tibet.
It wouldn't be fair to say director George Romero has lost his touch - "Diary of the Dead" is an acceptable zombie movie. It's just not a Romero zombie movie. The problem is, by using the shaky-cam method of filming, he allowed the soul to be sucked out of the movie.
Verb Collective is an anti-gallery. "Where the hell else can you have holistic healing art?" said Verb member Andrew Kiff. "Aha. See? There you go. We win. Ding! Verb scores again." Kiff said most art galleries are dull. "Someone says, 'Come to the art gallery.
Student Roger Martines and Allisha Morath smoke hookah at the Duck Pond. "We decided to come out and have a picnic, topping it off with a little hookah," Martines said.
The Lambda Theta Phi fraternity is looking to clean up stereotypes of Hispanic males. "As Latino males, we already have a stereotype," said Ruben Salazar, vice president of the fraternity's UNM chapter. "Usually, people only see the negative aspects of us.
Under a new University policy, students can be expelled if their instructor sees them as a threat. After April's shootings at Virginia Tech, the University began planning the Faculty Intervention Team to prevent violence on campus. Counseling and Therapy Services handed out pamphlets to instructors to help them identify and report troubled students, said Harry Linneman, director of the program.
Editor, Richard M. Berthold joined academics' agitation propaganda against Israel in the March 14 edition of the Daily Lobo. Agitation propaganda is used to discredit and delegitimize Israel's right to existential defense. Appallingly, Berthold juxtaposes the actions of Hitler's racist Nazi regime with Israel's justifiable security efforts as he declares "the haunting echoes of that same evil presence in Israel's policies.
Editor, Jason Darensburg's letter published in the Daily Lobo on March 13 concerning high rates of sexually transmitted infections among teenagers sadly misses the mark. To blame the Bush administration and religious fanatics for these sad statistics lacks both depth and understanding.
The No. 5 seed West Virginia Mountaineers squeezed passed the No. 12 seed Lobos 61-60 at The Pit in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. The Lobos had trouble containing the Mountaineers' offensive threats, UNM head coach Don Flanagan said. "They are very difficult to defend and have a lot of weapons," he said.
All season long, UNM head basketball coach Steve Alford talked about building a program rather than just building a season. So, if Lobo fans can look past the gut-wrenching end to postseason play, there should be plenty to get excited about in upcoming seasons.
Editor, Aspartame is a proven neurotoxic artificial sweetener whose approval was forced in 1981 by the then-CEO of Searle - none other than Donald Rumsfeld. He made $12 million to $15 million on that deal alone. Efforts proceed in Hawaii and New Mexico to ban it.
The sun sets as people pray at the top of Tome Hill to celebrate Good Friday. Thousands hike up the hill every year before Easter Sunday.
Parents will soon have a louder voice at UNM. The Board of Regents voted unanimously March 12 to create UNM's Parent Association. Janet Schmidly, former teacher and wife of President David Schmidly, said the association will give students' families a voice in UNM administration.
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