Staff and Wire Reports A federal judge in Columbus, Ohio has ruled that it’s too soon to determine whether the NCAA’s rules restricting participation in certain non-conference basketball tournaments violate federal antitrust laws. U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr.
I agree with Mr. Bauers' statement concerning the pledge of allegiance. While it seems very trivial, the phrase "under god" is in direct contradiction to the Constitution.
Those who know Luis Alberto Urrea for his acclaimed nonfiction work might be taken aback by his latest collection of short stories, "Six Kinds of Sky."
The Research Policy Committee has revised a new procedure for research misconduct to comply with federal regulations for government-funded research.
Currently making waves at venues throughout Northern California, a group of independent visionary filmmakers are taking their Hip Hop Film Fest on the road and to Albuquerque's Guild Theater from July 26 through Aug. 1.
Yankees are classist pig-dogs: You are sitting in a Filipino Karaoke/Strip-Bar in one of the more sketchy sections of downtown Manila. You sip a San Miguel and watch a 4'10" pinoy baritone belt out "One Sweet Day" with the accompaniment of a half-naked stripper he is paying 250 pesos an hour to sing with him - roughly five US dollars. He is really getting into it and is noticeably drunk. The stripper, meanwhile, sings the Mariah Carey part with forced and false emotion. She is merely doing her job.
I was wondering what sound advice I might give this week, when it occurred to me that I'm not particularly fit to advise anyone at the moment. Still, I can make observations.
Once again, as the loveliest time of year in New Mexico approaches, there also is a special feeling of excitement on our campus. A new academic year is about to begin, and the air is filled with the feeling of new opportunities, new faces, new classes - a scene relived every fall as our college community is renewed, rebuilt and revitalized.
Pre-season football rankings count about as much as West Palm Beach ballots with hanging chads. But that doesn’t mean that people don’t take them seriously. Peruse any message board on the Internet and you’ll see sports fans spreading their smack talk based on the picks of prognosticators who haven’t seen one down of actual football played yet.
What's a summer music festival without winter sports? The Jeep World Outside Music Festival had something for everyone. Over the weekend a large percent of the sports-and-music enthused citizens of Albuquerque were at the Journal Pavilion enjoying the largest music event yet this summer.
The Agora Crisis Center is starting the new academic year with a pledge to make its presence more known to UNM, said Jeremy Jaramillo, the center's director of budget and finance.
Thirty years ago Janis Joplin was selling records and touring the country with her own brand of music and style. Before that, Aretha Franklin was a huge star. People loved these women's voices and the soul they put in their music. They were respected for who they were and what they represented. Neither of these women were playmate material.
What's going on in the music industry nowadays? You hear it every day, "Pop music is going to bust! Any day now! It'll be gone!" Of course, these prophets are countered with screaming little girls hungering for the next boy band release, waiting to help them sell a million copies in the first hour.
UNM student Michael Petronis was recently awarded a $2,000 scholarship from the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.
The little things mean a lot to Jeremy Fishbein. When Fishbein came to UNM last year as an associate head coach, players took notice of his attention to detail — whether it was helping them understand their roles on the team or thinking about their conduct on and off the field.
Complaints about the banality of popular culture are nothing dramatically new. Working against the uniformity of early 20th century American culture, social critic and philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote the provocative essay "On Popular Music." In it, he rails against popular music's numbing and monotonous tendency - identifying with prophetic precision the lack of originality and mental vitalization it offers its listeners. Bear in mind that Adorno was writing in the early 1940s.
Being deaf or hard of hearing can be an aggravating challenge. Interacting with a world that doesn't share a person's communication system and doesn't understand that person's situation can make an already challenging situation stressful and hampered.
For more than 30 years in Albuquerque, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America has been providing mentors for young children, assistance for those in need and friends for children who want one.
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