The ASUNM Senate appointed chairs to four special committees and approved five presidential appointments in its opening session of the fall semester Wednesday. The ad hoc committees that were formed during an Associated Students of UNM team-building retreat Aug.
The Czars could be considered an indie band from Denver. The group is still hovering underneath the mainstream radar, playing for the college crowd and other like-minded spirits of the music scene. They also could be considered one of the Radiohead-esque bands that critics love to tell us about.
Hulking and glacial, the riffs that move Spiritu's self-titled debut CD loom behind jagged vocals in typical "stoner-rock" fashion. The album opens with a long, distorted note that suspends and gradually lands as a warm-sounding, circular riff, bits of rhythm gathering gradually underneath.
by Wayne Ma U-Wire We are all in college to get educated, yet many of us tend to forget that. Some of you believe that college is a means to an end. It's all about getting a piece of paper certifying that you're qualified to earn big bucks. Some of you are here because it's just the natural order of things.
So many times in our lives we ask ourselves that universal question - is that all there is? Heck, there was even a song made about it. Still, there is a big contrast between what we experience in our everyday lives and what we see in the movies. Real life rarely comes up with definitive conclusions.
If you're a football fan, you know college football doesn't have a preseason. But if you're a UNM fan, applying the idea of a preseason to this season ain't a bad one.
It scares the hell out of me that we have an administration in charge of our country that can't contain its excitement about going to war. Our leaders' reasoning seems questionable, hypocritical and deceitful at best.
It might not surprise you that Peter Dorato recently won a sanctioned, regional tennis tournament. What might surprise you, however, is that Dorato is more than 70 years old.
University Police responded to an attempted robbery call outside of the UNM Hospital parking structure at 10:05 p.m. Wednesday. The victim told police she was walking to the third level catwalk when a male assailant reportedly told her to give him her car keys and showed her a handgun.
The UNM men's soccer team shocked many in 2001. The Lobos, winless in regualr season play, entered the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament seeded eighth in the eight-team league and proceeded to win three games in four days - including a 3-2 first-round upset of regular season champion California State University at Sacramento.
President Bush's recent meeting with Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan comes at a time when Saudi-American relations are at their most crucial. At stake is the future of the entire Middle East and dire consequences for the world.
This year's record-size freshman class, with more than 2,800 members, will be the largest one since the University began tracking the statistic in 1982, said Terry Babbitt, the Office of Recruitment director.
Sari Krosinsky wrote in her Tuesday column that the Battle of Thermopolae was part of the Peloponnesian War. Actually, that battle was one of several wars between the Greeks and the Persians and occurred many years before the Peloponnesian War, which was a civil war between Athens and Sparta, which led to the decline of both city-states as powers and set the stage for conquest by the Macedonians, northern peoples on the frontier led by Phillip, the father of Alexander the Great.
While outlining the goals of his one-year term, UNM president Chris Garcia gave a tentative thank you to the Faculty Senate for helping push him into the interim presidential job during the senate's first meeting Tuesday.
Amid growing concern that divisions with Saudi Arabia over Iraq and other issues are threatening U.S. interests in the Middle East, President Bush met Tuesday with the Saudi ambassador as part of an effort to smooth relations with the key strategic and economic ally.
The UNM volleyball team kicks off its season this weekend at Wichita State University's Green Mill Restaurant Classic.
Officials at the UNM School of Law introduced their new dean, Suellyn Scarnecchia, to the University community Tuesday evening at a presentation at the west wing of the school.
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