The only candidate named after a search for a new director of the Chicana/o Studies program at UNM said Tuesday that recent decisions regarding affirmative action and Hispanic population growth within the United States provide for unique opportunities for the program.
Ever since new computer and special effect technology swept up the movie industry during the mid and late '90s, previously dying genres seem to be coming back to life --including horror. "Darkness Falls" is the new suspense/horror Sony Pictures flick released last week.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Boo-Ray Esq., or Ray Thomas Jr. Esq., is a rapper/lawyer from Buffalo, N.Y. The Daily Lobo conducted an interview with this up and coming artist on his EP release Gemini: Two Sides of the Same Dollar. Daily Lobo: You were born in Buffalo, N.
Editor, Todd J. Burns' letter on Tuesday asks that we support our soldiers, whether we agree with invading Iraq or not, and that we help them come home to their families and friends. No one has anything against the soldiers. The fastest way for them to be with their families is not to go.
by Amalea Smirniotopoulos Washington Square News (New York U.) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- Last Thursday, Great Britain's Labor government announced plans to change the way the nation's higher education system is financed, proposing that universities be allowed to charge students higher tuition fees and allowing them to defer payment until graduation.
by Andy Fahey Mustang Daily (California Poly State U.) (U-WIRE) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- As the movie "Blue Chips" clearly pointed out, it's no secret that some college athletes get paid to play. The practice of showering NCAA athletes with gifts, whether in the form of currency, cars or other commodities, is obviously wrong.
In the domineering face of the maniacal sciences and robo-pleasure, musicians like The Belles remain unfazed. Music has always been renowned for its powers to affect the listener, and now a Baltimore-based company is taking this characteristic of music to the extreme.
UNM Law Professor James Ellis has been named the 2002 "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal, an award he admits he never would have received without help from a tireless group of students and colleagues. Ellis received the award for successfully arguing before the U.
UNM President Chris Garcia said during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday that he has met with Gov. Bill Richardson recently and will support a two percent increase in staff compensation. "There seems to be at least a hopeful spirit that with the new administration will come better things for the state of New Mexico and for higher education in particular," Garcia said.
UNM student Paul Smith doesn't have things easy when it comes to getting around campus. In the place he used to park near his class in the Center for the Arts sits a big hole in the ground where UNM is building the Cornell parking structure.
Two UNM linguistics professors, both Fulbright Scholars, are offering courses this semester that emphasize the importance of multilingualism as an instrument to understanding foreign people and cultures. Visiting Lecturer Zouhair Maalej, a Tunisian native, has previously lectured at a British university and is working on a book titled, "The Contemporary Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Arabic Data.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Music has a transformative power and its might cannot be understated. Every country in the world has a national anthem and every movement has had it's soundtrack. From "El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido" in Chile, to the bulk of Woody Gutherie's and Pete Seger's work and the re-contextualized hymn of "We Shall Overcome" in the civil rights movement of the '60s, music and song help define movements.
Virginia Woolf has never been quite so mysterious. At least, not since her death in 1941. But with the advent of Michael Cunningham's ferocious, candid novel "The Hours," and its equally provocative movie version, Woolf has been all the rage again. In his novel, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Cunningham delves into one of the 20th century's greatest novelists and the mother of the modernists through not only Woolf's story, but also by interweaving a more current theme with two additional characters.
The Student Fees Review Board met with about 15 students Monday in a town hall meeting to get input for its recommendations to the UNM Board of Regents. The SFRB is comprised of seven undergraduate and graduate students and hears allocation requests from University departments and organizations.
The UNM student who was found dead Oct. 4, in his SRC dorm room, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a state medical investigator's report. Frank Baca, 47, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a toxicology screen report released last week by the Office of the Medical Investigator.
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