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LINK aims at upgrading business methods

Staff Report The UNM community will get a crash course on the inner-workings of Project LINK - the University's push toward automating several of its administrative and business processes. The project will upgrade numerous aspects of the University's systems aimed at making them more customer focused and easy to use.

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Novelist Allende caters to no one

Isabel Allende did not come to Popejoy Hall Wednesday night to address UNM's resident literary snobs. "I never studied literature," she said Wednesday in an interview with the Daily Lobo. "And frankly, I don't care for the way literature is taught in schools.

Ray unfamiliar with UNM, ready to learn

UNM presidential candidate Edward John Ray said that he feels he can use his administrative experience to help the University realize its goals in the future. Ray, the executive vice president, provost and professor of economics at Ohio State University, admitted that while he is unaware of the issues at UNM, he is anxiously awaiting an opportunity to become acclimated with the community.

EDITORIAL: Patriot Act Two simply too dangerous to pass

(U-WIRE) NORMAN, Okla. - What do you know about the Domestic Enhancement and Security Act? This proposed legislation, nicknamed Patriot Act Two, would give more power to federal officials in the war against terror.

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Lobos need more than statistics

If you look at the box score from the UNM women's basketball team's victory over Mississippi State University, you won't find much mention of Tiffany Scaglione, Cristal Garcia or The Pit. What they bring to the table isn't measured by statistics. The two players and one arena scored two points, two points and zero points respectively.

UNM promotes campus safety, awareness of war

As the University community acclimates itself to the war in Iraq, faculty and administration members are looking at several ways to help foster both an educational and safe experience for the campus. UNM President Chris Garcia addressed the Faculty Senate at its monthly meeting Tuesday, stating that the administration has already taken steps to keep the campus community informed, including the "UNM In Time of War" Web site at http://www.

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Letter: Women's basketball great asset for UNM

Editor, A hearty congratulation is in order to the Lobos after their two victories in the NCAA tournament. Coach Flanagan and his staff have built a solid, well-respected program with many good student-athletes stepping up to contribute from both the past and present, too.

Sports in Brief

Football Coming off a season that culminated with a bowl appearance, the UNM football team, which returns 54 lettermen including 20 starters, began spring practices Tuesday at the fields south of University Stadium. Tuesday's shorts-and-helmets workout kicks off a 15-practice schedule that will run for the next four weeks.

TVI offers free tax assistance

Students stressing about the April 15 tax deadline have an option offered through the local community college, called TVI Tax Help. Tax help is a national Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program that is offered through the Internal Revenue Service which is available free to taxpayers who made less than $33,000 last year.

Lobos need more than statistics

If you look at the box score from the UNM women's basketball team's victory over Mississippi State University, you won't find much mention of Tiffany Scaglione, Cristal Garcia or The Pit. What they bring to the table isn't measured by statistics. The two players and one arena scored two points, two points and zero points respectively.

Lottery ads to showcase its benefits

by Jodi Hunley Daily Lobo The New Mexico Lottery has put out a call for Lottery Success Scholarship recipients who have graduated from a New Mexico college or university and have stayed in New Mexico to work. The New Mexico Lottery is working with Kilmer and Kilmer, Inc.

COLUMN: Decisions need actual logic

by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist The Physical Plant Department is in the process of re-seeding Johnson Field on the east side of Johnson Gym. One of the requirements mandated by a federal bureaucracy dictated that we do an environmental impact report on the area being re-seeded so we don't negatively impact any endangered species or archaeological sites.

COLUMN: Bush's administration failing at all diplomacy

by Katy Noone Massachusetts Daily Collegian (U. Massachusetts-Amherst) (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. -- It may come as no surprise to most of us that the extensive media coverage of the past few days has consisted mostly of dramatic, emotional images, often lacking in-depth coverage of historical relevance and political importance.

Students push fair trade coffee

A student organization is making a collaborative effort with several campus groups to try and push ARAMARK, UNM's exclusive food service provider, toward changing to a more socially responsible brand of coffee. Talks have begun between ARAMARK and the Fair Trade Initiative, a student organization lobbying for ARMARK to replace its wholesale coffee with the more socially responsible Fair Trade Federation coffee.

COLUMN: TV promotes much blood lust

by Robert Carey Massachusetts Daily Collegian (U. Massachusetts-Amherst) (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. -- For the Romans, nothing was more entertaining than the games. The bloodier the better. They were enthralled by the mayhem of the gladiatorial arena.

University goes an extra mile

With members of the UNM community preparing themselves for the possibility of being called to active military duty here and abroad, the University has plans in place to accommodate their educations during any service-related absence. Currently, about 120 UNM students and staff serve in some branch of military reserves or the National Guard, according to New Mexico Army and Air National Guard figures.