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COLUMN: Treat animals like animals

I eat meat. I love stripping meat from rib bones with my bare hands as I pay homage to my australopithecine ancestors by boycotting cutlery. I love sushi, stuffing myself full of salmon sashimi and unagi until I look like a fully inflated blowfish. And I occasionally love a rubbery seven-cow composite frankfurter stuffed in a pasty white bun and slathered with gelatinous canned chili.

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Ice Cube at heart of gangsta rap world

"Barbershop" presented a kinder, portlier version of Ice Cube than I remembered from his N.W.A. years, but hey, we all have to grow up sometime. But for those of us who need intelligent machismo and swaggering bravado from Ice Cube, Capitol Records is re-releasing the first four Cube albums under the banner, The Albums That Shook a Nation.

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V-Day history not about love

Break out the candy conversation hearts with psychotic, goopy sayings -- that day of love, flowers and machine guns is upon us. That's right, Valentine's Day is rearing its sickly little head. Break out a cigarette and let the activities commence. Sadly, these activities put most of us in one of two categories: in love or not in love.

Voice behind Cat Power an 'anti-star'

She took the name of her group from a baseball cap advertising a tractor company. "She" is Chan (pronounced Shawn) Marshall, the Atlanta-born, New York-based singer/songwriter who, with the help of a few sidemen friends, makes up the "group" Cat Power.

UNM author, architect historian recognized

Staff Report Architectural historian Eleni BastÇa, associate professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, will look to expand the scope and focus of the Modern Greek Studies Association -- a group that has recently elected her to its executive board.

LETTER: Wealthy Americans' fear based on greed

Editor, I've been reading and hearing a lot lately about fear. Americans, we are told, should be afraid of another terrorist attack. Britons, the media say, should be afraid of a similar attack. The Koreans are afraid of an American pre-emptive strike. The Israelis are afraid of a film about the Jenin refugee camp and have banned it.

Course survey system crucial

As the spring semester begins to fade and summer weather blooms, professors will finally quiet down and allow the students an opportunity to voice their opinions. At the end of every semester, students are asked to complete Instruction and Course Evaluation System forms designed to give instructors and professors feedback on their teaching methods and course material from the people who know it best.

SPECIAL SECTION: Lab allows online guidance

by Cindy Lewis Daily Lobo Students having trouble finding job listings on the Internet or writing rÇsumÇs now have a place to go. The Career Resource Lab, located in the Career Services Center, is a state of the art computer pod that opened last October.

Affirmative action topic of forum at Law School

Members of several minority groups at UNM said they view the United States as a racist entity that continues to segregate minorities from acceptance into higher-educational institutions and the pursuit of the American dream. Students from the UNM School of Law formed a panel discussion to inform the public about Grutter v.

COLUMN: Castro in predictions

I began my new year like any red-blooded, logically driven American -- I read my horoscope. Strangely enough, my horoscope predicted that this year, Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die and close the final chapter on the ill-fated Cuban experiment. The astrologer went on to predict that his death would not only signal the reunification of Cuban families shattered by century-old political/economic debates, but that Cuba would open her arms to the United States and become an American playground.

COLUMN: Cockfights heartless torture

by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Cockfighting in New Mexico is alive and well. Cockfighting died in committee so we are stuck with this so-called sport for another year at least unless a miracle happens. Five members of the senate committee decided that animal cruelty in New Mexico is alive and well and we should continue it because it is a "tradition.

UNM must register foreign students

As of Saturday, the Office of International Programs and Studies at UNM must begin registering almost 1,000 foreign students and scholars who attend UNM. The requirement is because of a new Immigration and Naturalization Service directive that all foreign or exchange students studying in the United States register their personal information on the Internet through the Students and Exchange Visitor Information Service, also known as SEVIS.

LETTER: Students: use your education for good

Editor, On Feb. 13 and 14, Los Alamos National Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories, along with the U.S. Department of Energy -- the department that employs its services as producers of weapons of mass destruction -- will be actively recruiting students at a job fair at UNM.

SPECIAL SECTION: Career Services help students find a niche

UNM's undergraduate Career Services has helped about 3,700 students since July 2002 find a major, find a job and foster skills employers are looking for. Also, since July, 2,125 new employers have posted job listings with Career Services. "It's a real high working with students and giving them the skills they need to get a job they want," said Jenna Sultemeier, one of the six career development facilitators at Career Services.

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Sex educator to enlighten UNM

Jay Friedman knows sex -- he's not only an internationally known sex educator, but he's not afraid to tell the world the things he knows about the subject. At 7:30 p.m., tonight, in Woodward Hall, Friedman will share his wealth of sexual knowledge with UNM in his lecture titled "The J-Spot, A Sex Educator Tells All.

COLUMN: Humor columnist's racist

Jokes are supposed to be funny. Those who tell jokes are supposed to be wise enough to know that. Unfortunately, a famous advice columnist called Dame Edna Everage of the magazine Vanity Fair has a bit of trouble distinguishing the thin, but crucial, line between humor and bigotry.

Spiraling Out

by Lisa J. Tabet Daily Lobo A figure bathed in harsh light stands alone on the stage; he is about to tell you the story of his life. This begins "Nocturne," a play by Adam Rapp that opened last Wednesday, at Theatre X. Set in a small Midwestern town, the lead character, The Son, played by Luke Higgins, tells his story, the story of the life he survived.