by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Debbie Morris, director of student activities, said there has never been a problem with different people filing a charter for the same student group - until now. The UNM chapter of the College Republicans was supposed to meet for the first time this semester on Aug.
Editor, On June 24 of this year, the First Baptist Church of Los Lunas hired a pest control company to eradicate prairie dogs on its property. The method the company used to kill the animals was legal, but certainly not humane orˇsmart. They were fumigating the burrows with a deadly gas.
Editor, What could be called the second firing of Richard Berthold raises a big problem for the faculty and for peace-loving people across the state. First, no one I know believes Provost Dasenbrock's statement that the rejection has nothing to do with Berthold's outspoken views as they emerged in the tragedy of the Sept.
by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo With the Oct. 4 Albuquerque mayoral elections right around the corner, student Wesley Reed wants to know why he should vote. "If the candidates are expecting the young crowd to get out and vote, they need to give us a reason," Reed said.
by Maria DeBlassie Daily Lobo Lisa Lenard-Cook has always been a writer, she said. "They tell me when I was a little girl, I was picking up a pen before I could talk," she said. Lenard-Cook has been nominated for the first annual Southwest Book Award in fiction for her novel Dissonance.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Beth Gattas-Waskow said when her father applied to be the first director of Parking and Transportation Services during the Vietnam War, he was asked a strange question. "When he was interviewed for the job, they asked if he was worried about his house being bombed," she said.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Artist Jim Kraft, 67, said he made a list of things he wants to do before he dies, and putting on an art show is one of them. His show at the Harwood Art Center is one of five on display. "I don't know if it's my last. I may do another one," he said.
by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist Chocolate has always been associated with sex. Some scientists have suggested that chocolate acts like a drug as well, with both inebriating and positive health effects. Chocolate contains more than 300 chemicals. Plenty more research needs to be done before we have a clear idea about how chocolate works on the body, but a few things have been examined.
by Scott Albright Daily Lobo Institute - the side project of Bush's Gavin Rossdale - has a new album, Distort Yourself, which reeks of broken-down technological junk thrown into the scrapyard of bad rock. Songs like "Information Age" give the impression that instead of using a guitar, the band decided to connect an old defibrillator into a broken fax machine to create a painful mixture of high-pitched twangs.
Editor, It is shocking and disappointing that Richard Berthold's request to teach an Honors seminar was shot down by UNM's terror squad of bureaucracy. I have to say, though, it's not surprising. While no one is willing to provide legitimate answers as to why, UNM student and Chairman of the Reagan Freedom Society of New Mexico Bob Cornelius speculated in the Daily Lobo that the University is a business and Berthold is a liability.
by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo The UNM Alumni Association no longer has to share Hodgin Hall. Karen Abraham, director of alumni relations, said they have waited a long time for the decision. "All along, for the last 22, 23 years, it has been intended that the building would be called the alumni center," Abraham said.
by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo Richard Berthold said the needs of UNM's administration trump those of students by not letting him return to the University to teach. "And more sadly, the faculty is once more permitting an administrator to dictate to an academic department who they can and cannot hire," he said in an e-mail Monday.
Editor, I am writing in response to Will Veeder's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo about Bush and his administration's reaction to Hurricane Katrina. First of all, the fact that New Orleans did not receive any federal funding to repair the levees is irrelevant.
Editor, I find it ironic that Ryan Brightbill, founder of the Reagan Freedom Society, feels comfortable defining what constitutes treason. While Berthold's comments regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon were, without question, tasteless, asserting that his commentary rises to the level of treason reeks of a neo-McCarthyist if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us mentality.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Taproot proves you can teach an old dog new tricks. With their third album, Blue-Sky Research, members of Taproot have learned new ways to expand the possibilities of their instruments and voices. The structures of each song flow together with better skill.
Editor, Despite J.R. Giddens' comments regarding his religious association with Ritchie McKay, any promotion of religion McKay may have committed was welcomed and in the context of a personal conversation. His mother's comment that McKay wants to get Giddens into church and it was mandatory to go to church can be disregarded, since McKay was stupefied by the comment and no one close to the team has made any similar claims.
by Maria Staiano-Daniels Daily Lobo Leigh-Ann Santillanes, the director of "Orphans," first saw the play 15 years ago and was immediately drawn to it. "There was something about it that was so tremendously beautiful," she said. At the Vortex Theatre, Santillanes and her cast have created a production of tremendous beauty - a strange, sad beauty that is more unsettling than uplifting.
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