El Centro de la Raza is sponsoring a lecture series focusing on indigenous cultures in Central and South America that begins tonight in the center's Mesa Vista Hall conference room.
Globalization. It's a word we hear thrown around a lot these days, usually in conjunction with words such as "protest," "evil" and "corporations." But what is it, really? What are the WTO and NAFTA, and why exactly does their existence cause street battles between activists and police?
Your editorial in Monday's newspaper contained glaring errors:
FBI statistics say that 80 percent of all gang rapes that occur in the United States happen in fraternities. An anthropological case study of Greek life by Peggy Reeves Sanday, "Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus" concludes that sororities are often complicit in the cover-up and sometimes even the set-up of rape cases in fraternity houses.
Photographer Ron Cooper, third from left, speaks Tuesday during a panel discussion on "Polaroid: The New Mexico Connection," a photography exhibit in the University Art Museum. Also on the panel are Professor Emerita Betty Hahn, Associate Chairperson Patrick Nagatani and Professor Emeritus Thomas Barrow, from left, all from the Art and Art History Department. The show, which features work from each of the panelists, runs through April 14.
While the United States generally ignores the opinions of the developing countries, the fact that some of its European allies have questioned its foreign policy should serve as a wake-up call.
Families and health professionals gathered at First Choice Clinic Tuesday to fight a legislative movement to cut state Medicaid funding that they say would hurt New Mexico children.
The thought of sharing more than 200 pages with a belching, beer-swigging, football-watching lummox is alarming in the least.
University administrators told the Board of Regents Tuesday that they were hopeful about UNM's legislative funding but added that next year's budget remained impossible to predict.
Recent announcements of plans to launch two competing cable channels targeted to gay audiences have put the issue of gay visibility on center screen.
So you think Enron had a great scam going? Imagine a world where you start the year making a wish list of all the things you want to buy and spend money on. Now imagine getting to do all the things you want to do and buying all the stuff you want.
Wilfred Owen once said, "The true poets must be truthful." If ever I have been in the presence of true poets, it has been at an Angry Brown Poets performance. This quadruplet not only speaks truth, but also surpasses the realm of daily thought with profound sagacity.
If you've seen any of the "E-True Hollywood Stories" or Court TV specials on child acting stars, you're aware of the startling epidemic afflicting stars who just couldn't stay cute.
Numerous UNM students say they will do anything to avoid having to use the restrooms in Mitchell Hall, but the relatively new facilities in Dane Smith Hall got high marks for cleanliness and design.
Embattled UNM post Patrick Dennehy, who walked off the court during the final three minutes of the men's basketball team's 47-44 road loss to the Air Force Academy, is being treated for a confidential medical condition, according to University officials.
Weekly social hours, camping trips and garage giveaways are just some of what the University offers to help settle international students into their new lives at UNM.
As one might expect, the part of president Bush's State of the Union Address that has garnered the most attention and protest is the characterization of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." These individual nations protested by calling the United States a variety of names and many traditionally friendly nations also disapproved of the classification. In the United States, Clinton administration officials and other experts derided the remark as "delinquent" or "ill-advised," and I am sure that there are many here on campus that believed it to be straight-up warmongering aggressiveness.
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