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 ...
Matt Gerety has high expectations for the compassion and charity of people on campus. Gerety, general military course adviser, is the organizer for Operation Iraqi Children, a semester-long drive for school supplies for Iraqi children.
Editor, Mikhayla Harrell's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo hit it on the nose. I went back to the Feb. 23 edition of the Lobo and read the article in question, "Maximum mischief." I assume the reader with the right sense of humor could enjoy wallowing around inside Tucker Max's own fascinated version ...
Editor, Naming oppression does not cause oppression. The lack of theoretical clarity over the concept of race is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in eliminating racial inequality. Most social scientists would agree there is no biological basis for categorizing people into distinct racial groups ...
by Debra Au Daily Lobo For all of those who thought the band Oasis was over and done with, there's good news. The '90s British group isn't getting back together, but it seems like their musical style and band composition have been reincarnated. The Subways is almost exactly like the former, being ...
This is the first of a monthly feature on the Daily Lobo's Opinion page, a forum open to the UNM and local community for thoughtful exchange on a variety of ideas and events ranging from the abstract to the concrete and the local to the international. There are broad issues that concern almost everyone, ...
by Colin Donoghue Daily Lobo columnist I often hear of the progress our nation has made in eliminating racism, but this self-praise should be restrained. Of course progress has been made, yet the severe racism that still exists is often ignored. Those who believe in a renewed America in which ...
UNM is giving undergraduates the opportunity to participate in a congressional internship program in Washington, D.C., this fall.
by John Bear Daily Lobo Suicide bombers are people too. The film "Paradise Now" follows Said and Khaled, two work-a-day Palestinians living in Nablus on the West Bank. They have been selected to carry out a suicide mission somewhere inside beautiful downtown Tel Aviv. Said and Khaled are mentally ...
UNM's investment in a technology company being built at Mesa Del Sol could be a good opportunity to boost the University's profit margins.
Editor, Black History Month began in 1926 when Carter Woodson founded Negro History Week. The son of former slaves, Woodson saw the week as a way of educating black people about their history, which at the time was largely ignored in public schools. Fast-forward to today - actor Morgan Freeman stated ...
Provost candidate Uday Sukhatme was surprised to see the Roberts Room in Scholes Hall packed with more than 60 staff members. "I was not expecting this big of a turnout," he said. "It shows the staff is interested, which is very important."
Editor, America is once again preparing to pay tribute to the contributions of its African-American citizens. Great men and women such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will have their stories told and their legacies celebrated, and rightly so. This year, however, ...
by Joe Buffaloe Daily Lobo It was a scene that could only take place in New Mexico. A guitarist and harpist performed traditional songs of the pueblo onstage. A poet spoke of the wood stove of his childhood and Elvis crossing the plains in the same sentence. Tables were lined with whites, African-Americans ...
by Andrew Price Daily Lobo columnist The Albuquerque Journal reported this month that Highland High School has been experiencing what it calls ethnic tensions, and that it held a meeting between the school's administration, faculty, parents and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
by Abel Horwitz Daily Lobo The mystery that is the FOX TV development studios is something that has baffled television fans for years. This is the department that has cancelled such beloved shows as "Firefly," "Undeclared," "Arrested Development" and "Futurama" despite desperate pleas by fans ...
Editor, School papers, particularly university publications, have the propensity for lewd, idiotic and bigoted content. The fine line between academic semantics and frat house humor, however, must be carefully kept in balance. I was particularly perturbed to discover this line crossed in Thursday's ...
Even when one of its top players went down, the UNM women's basketball team proved it was still worthy of a top 25 ranking.
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