Steve Fitch sees the crumbling schools, churches and dance halls of the high planes with the sensibilities of a photographer and an anthropologist A show featuring his work, titled “Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains,” will be at the UNM Art Museum until March 23.
Students: Imagine the ability to unwind after a nerve-racking exam. Imagine meeting for a study group, a pen in one hand and a frothy beer in the other. Staff: Imagine sneaking away during lunch and nipping some schnapps, easing the doldrums of filing papers and answering phones.
By Rafael Gallegos Daily Lobo What are you willing to risk to get what you want? The enigmatic characters of writer-director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "Intacto" face this question in a film about chance and luck. A well-assembled international cast, anchored by the Swedish Max Von Sydow, is the saving grace of "Intacto.
Have you ever had the urge to tear apart a grand piano for no good reason? Don’t worry you’re not alone. John Cage, easily the most famous of American 20th-century composers was there with you too. But he sublimated all that destructive energy into “modifying” a piano to create a new sound space for a performer to play in.
Author Michael Cunningham wasn’t afraid to take a risk with his novel The Hours — that risk, writing about another book, ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize and a movie deal with Paramount pictures. In a conference call with the Daily Lobo, Cunningham answered the question every one is dying to know the answer to — how did he write a book about one of the world’s most admired piece of literature, Mrs.
UNM alumnus Justin Delacour has gathered some international publicity lately by questioning the practices of Venezuela's best-known polling companies. In an online report, "Can You Believe Venezuela's Pollsters?" Delacour accuses Venezuela's largest polling firms of being against the country's president, Hugo Chavez.
Editor, Included in your Feb. 12 career issue was a statement of academic codes of conduct; “faculty members . . . an obligation . . . to foster and defend freedom of inquiry and instruction and free expression.” But when a respected faculty member expressed this freedom in regard to Sept.
by Joshua Sterns The Post (Ohio U.) (U-WIRE) ATHENS, Ohio — The free speech police are back again, but this time instead of the ACLU, it’s our own government. A story mostly ignored by the media suggests certain commonly used phrases may be too offensive to liberal sensibilities to be uttered without strong repercussions.
Construction is underway for a new entry forecourt at the North end of the Zimmerman Library. "I wanted to enhance the north-side entry, it had been on my list of things to do for a while, it will be just as much a front door as the South-side entry," said Gil Berry, associate director of Facility Planning.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Warm weather is approaching and it will soon be time to go hiking, camping and generally enjoying the outdoors. One of the so-called hazards of living in New Mexico is that we have at least nine species of rattlesnakes that live in the areas where we like to hike and camp.
Staff Report The New Mexico Legislature passed several education reform proposals designed to secure funding for a professional licensure program in public education and increase minimum salaries for teachers statewide. "For years, we have lagged behind our neighboring states in teacher salaries, and we're paying a price," Rep.
As the weather in Albuquerque does its best impression of a schizophrenic madman, the UNM men's golf team heads to tropical Hawaii for its second event of the spring 2003 season. The trip won't be all fun in the sun for the Lobos, however, as they will face a formidable, 15-school field and somewhat unfamiliar, sometimes unpredictable playing conditions in the John Burns Invitational near Honolulu, Hawaii.
by Yousef Munayyer Massachusetts Daily Collegian (U. Massachusetts-Amherst) (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. -- Some years back, maybe when I was 12, I remember seeing a T-shirt in the street market in Jerusalem with a picture of a fighter jet on it and the words "Don't worry America .
Staff Report The UNM swim team will try to improve on last year's sixth place finish in the Mountain West Conference Swimming and Diving Championships this week. "We had a good meet last year and I think we have a better team this year," head coach Bill Spahn said.
The UNM Ice Wolves are on the road this weekend, traveling to Boulder, Colo., to face the University of Colorado Buffaloes. It should prove to be a difficult undertaking. After dropping the first game to CU in a home series in their first meeting, the Lobos came back the next night to tie 3-3 in a battle that was one of UNM's strongest showings of the year.
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