Don Starr's letter to the editor on March 5 demonstrates the deep racial divide amongst the working class. As a white person who also grew up in a trailer park, I agree with Starr's call for assistance to poor whites.
This letter is to comment on the March 5 Daily Lobo article "Physical Plant to begin enforcing bicycle lock rules."
When freshman Lindsey Arndt was being recruited to play college basketball last year, she knew one thing was for certain - she was not going to play for the UNM women's basketball program.
Lack of offense and some critical defensive mistakes handed the UNM softball team two losses in a double header Tuesday afternoon against the Texas Tech University.
Marisa Preciaclo receives a free nipple piercing Tuesday for agreeing to sit near Sachs Body Piercing and Tattoo's store window facing Central Avenue. Several women were ticketed by police during the Nob Hill business' promotion that will run from 11 a.m. to midnight every Tuesday in March.
Strong local programming and the ability to expand that coverage are some of the key reasons KNME, Channel 5, publicist Evy Todd is encouraging people to donate to public television.
Sadly, the United States is no longer a country run on ideals like freedom, human rights, and limited government. Instead it is a nation that hardly even notices each time a new form of government oppression is handed down from Washington. Once upon a time, political leaders here said things like "give me liberty or give me death!"
I am writing in response to the article appearing in the Daily Lobo on March 4 concerning the UNM ultimate Frisbee team. I am a strong supporter of UNM Frisbee, and I was at their tournament this weekend. I did not enjoy, nor did I appreciate the content of this article.
When you get a craving for live music, nothing is more satisfying than immersing yourself in the loud, dreamy darkness of a good show. It is even more satisfying when you find that good show produced by local talent. The experience of connecting to your community seems to reinforce every tone soaring from the stage.
Remember "Torn," the Natalie Imbruglia song that was played every three minutes on one radio station or another a few years ago? Of course you do. Well, the former Australian soap star has a new album out, White Lilies Island, but don't expect to find any more eternal pop melodies on it.
Be careful where you lock up your bike on campus after spring break. The Physical Plant will begin enforcing rules against using hand railings as bicycle racks March 18 by removing and impounding offenders' bikes.
As I was reading Ricky Lee Allen's letter to the editor on March 4, I was deeply offended at the generalizations he made about different races. Allen assumes only people of color know the effects of poverty. I grew up here in Albuquerque in a trailer park where I shared a fold out couch in the living room with my older brother for a bed; the other two rooms were for my sister and parents.
People daring enough to bare their breasts and let the world watch as they get their nipples pierced in the window of a local tattoo shop this month will get the $70 procedure, and the jewelry, for free.
Congresswoman Heather Wilson, a Republican in the 1st Congressional District, made the news this week calling for the reinstatement of the charter of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service.
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