I love Albuquerque. And I can't stand it. And everything in between. I exhibit this vast spectrum of emotion because I know this town, the good and the bad.
by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo Reed Dasenbrock said it is important to understand the position of University provost before taking on the responsibility. "There is no spring season, no warm-ups and there are no training wheels," said Dasenbrock, who has been interim provost since 2005. Dasenbrock ...
I'm often accused of being cynical. But I don't see how anyone could blame me. The Nobel Peace Prize is a nice award. It acknowledges those rare homo sapiens who want everybody to stop killing each other. I like that.
Editor, The only effective place to begin solving a problem is at the beginning, and such a beginning can only be found by observing what is really going on, devoid of all assumptions and opinions about what is really going on. One way this idea could be expressed is becoming the witness. When one ...
The UNM Board of Regents received a petition Wednesday urging them to hire a woman as interim president of the University. Gail Houston, director of UNM's Women Studies Program, said they collected 275 signatures from students, faculty and staff who want to see a female head of state on campus.
As a passionate young teacher working with at-risk teens, I taught myself to practice non-judgment and to avoid stereotyping people based on the color of their skin. Naively, I thought I would change the world this way, one student at a time. What I wasn't prepared for was the attitudes and emotions that had been handed down generation after generation that my students now carried with them like a mantra.
Editor, The only objection I have to outsourcing 21 ports in the United States to the state-owned corporation Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates isn't that they're Arab, but that American-owned companies should be running the ports. I guess the United States has fallen into such decline ...
The ghetto is perhaps one of the most defining things in America's urban culture. It is here that many artists develop muses in one of the many genres of art, whether it is in poetry, theater, painting, or in the case of New Brunswick, N.J., native Jaheim, in music.
by Andre van der Merwe Daily Lobo On a night when the Lobos struggled to put together any type of offense, their defense bailed them out. The UNM men's basketball team (17-11, 8-7 MWC) duked it out defensively against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (15-12, 9-6 MWC) Wednesday night at The Pit ...
Combine spoken word, hand clapping and hard stepping, and you get Step Afrika. Stepping is a dance tradition created by African-American college students. The tradition grew out of rituals practiced by fraternities and sororities in the early 1900s.
I have thought long and hard about this - almost an hour and a half. Give Bono the Nobel Peace Prize. For one, it will motivate him to do more charity work and make less music.
The Houston Texans must have some kind of sick hatred for their fans. As the NFL Draft approaches, the league's worst franchise is considering trading away the No. 1 overall pick. Houston, we have - well, you know.
by Mark Schaaf Daily Lobo Regent Don Chalmers said donating to the Presidential Scholarship is a good investment. "It is a wonderful feeling," Chalmers said. "They are successful here and we know they are going to be successful when they leave here." The Presidential Scholarship Program provides ...
By leaps and bounds, the most tragic and absurdly ludicrous story that came out of the weekend's NFL Combine was Vince Young's supposed six on the Wonderlic test.
Who wakes up and says to themselves, "Today I'm going to make a brainless decision?" Not most people. However, come draft day, there definitely will be more than one team thinking it.
ESPN's NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. has one person who's not listening to what he has to say. Former UNM football wide receiver Hank Baskett said he's not sweating what any of the draft experts are throwing out there as the NFL Combine finished Tuesday.
Editor, We've just passed Black History Month. Each year, Americans proudly reflect on the history of African-Americans, their accomplishments and the challenges they faced against the likes of bigotry and intolerance. We should proudly remember the previous generations that had to take on the ...
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