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April 17Firefighters were watching for embers Tuesday from a blaze that burned about 25 acres of bosque on the northwestern edge of Pojoaque Pueblo and forced evacuations.
Firefighters were watching for embers Tuesday from a blaze that burned about 25 acres of bosque on the northwestern edge of Pojoaque Pueblo and forced evacuations.
One of the first things newly elected GPSA President Lorena Olmos says she will do is begin working on outreach programs that would encourage more graduate student government participation.
I am writing this letter in hopes of abolishing the practice of "door jumping" in our school shuttles. Allow me to explain. Most of our shuttles come equipped with two doors. They're placed strategically, with one in front and one in the middle.
The UNM men's basketball team has been losing players at a blistering rate this season, but the Lobos finally have added a player while squashing rumors of another one's departure.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a law prohibiting sexually explicit material that appears to involve minors or conveys the impression that minor was involved in its creation. The law was aimed at preventing computer-generated pornography that contains no actual children but is altered to appear as though it does.
Paramedics check an unidentified man who was thrown from his Jeep Wrangler after it rolled over during a three-car accident at University Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
In his Daily Lobo letter on Tuesday, Mike Ritthaler is guilty of the charge embodied in the title - "Dam columnist ignores facts." He correctly calculates the solar panel area - 11 square miles - required to produce the equivalent of Hoover Dam's 2 million kilowatt capacity. He then asks the scary, debate-ending question "Where are the 11 square miles we're willing to sacrifice?"
Many of us have worked for years to remove the illegal fliers that are persistently posted in the UNM area. These fliers have proven to be not only an eyesore, but also the source of much of the street debris that pollutes the area. It has taken untold hours of work on the part of neighborhood volunteers to remove literally pounds of trash from signs, poles and walls.
UNM head football coach Rocky Long announced hiring Curtis Luper as the running backs' coach Tuesday.
Twenty-four hours ago, I was not even aware of a disease called cervical cancer. I wasn't even sure what a cervix was and had no idea that it can, for reasons not completely known, become cancerous.
Juices and smoothies, deli sandwiches and Asian food will join chicken, New Mexican food and pizza in the new SUB, if the opinion poll conducted in last Wednesday's ASUNM election carries any weight.
Sarah Montague wants to prove to the world that she's a smart, modern writer.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the student body for passing Amendment One last Wednesday. I feel confident that the returns this amendment will bring to the students of this University are rewards of great proportion that are difficult to imagine at this time.
Senior Jimmy Stephens, in black at right, sells "Jimmy Dolls" and shirts, part of his undergraduate thesis that focuses on his body hair, outside Mitchell Hall Monday. Next to Stephens are Justin Powell and Brittainy Larback.
The Fine Arts Library, located in the Center for the Arts, will find a home in the new School of Architecture and Planning after its scheduled completion in October 2004.