The stakes for New Mexico and Colorado State in Saturday’s game could not be more different. For the Lobos, it’s their final chance to beat a quality opponent and show more signs of an improving football team.
Low voter turnout is not simply a national problem, a statewide problem or a municipal problem this election cycle; UNM felt it, too. Only 682 undergraduate students voted in the recent Associated Students of UNM Senate elections.
Editor, The holiday season is approaching and with it a wonderful time to support our local economy.
Editor, As we build toward the climax of the 2014 college football season, you can already hear the perennial debate beginning again — should college athletes be paid for their work in addition to the scholarships they receive?
Redshirt freshman Alice Wright crossed the Atlantic Ocean to join an elite group of cross country runners in the Mountain Region. Wright, the NCAA Division I Mountain Region Female Athlete of the Year, said she had never seen New Mexico’s campus before hopping on a plane to the Land of Enchantment after finishing high school. “I want to say it’s the best decision that I have ever made,” said Wright, a native of Worcester, England.. “I came here completely alone.
A combination of overuse and incorrect use of antibiotics is leading to a global epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that a recent report by the World Health Organization claims “threatens the achievements of modern medicine.” But a research team at UNM is creating an alternative for fighting a common, highly resistant infection.
Last Friday the UNM Board of Regents voted to expand the board of Innovate ABQ from seven to 11 members, according to a UNM press release. The board also elected its leadership team. New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union President and CEO Terry Laudick will serve as the chair, with PNM Resources President and CEO Patricia Vincent-Collawn as vice chair. Charles I. Wellborn, former president of STC.UNM, will be the secretary/treasurer. Innovate ABQ is the proposed innovation hub and small business incubator created by UNM with the goal of bringing together members of the community, local government and small businesses in an effort to create new opportunities for entrepreneurs in Albuquerque and New Mexico.
The 51st annual ASUNM Arts and Crafts fair, hosting more than 70 vendors of handmade art and crafts, began at the Student Union Building on Wednesday. The event, hosted by the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico, will continue through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Every year we organize the arts and crafts fair; it is run entirely by the undergraduate students,” said Stella Bell Kemper, executive director of ASUNM Art and Crafts Studio.
A murky, gray fog has surrounded UNM as the end of the fall semester looms, overwhelming even the toughest of college students. That makes this a good time for Mental Health Wellness Week, which occurs Nov. 16-22. Founded by national non-profit Freedom From Fear, the campaign is meant to educate communities on how to implement mental health strategies into their lives and to facilitate programs centered on mental health, according to the Mental Health Wellness Week’s website. Mental health is how people think, act and cope with life and the stressors and challenges that come with experiences, according to the website.
So I walked out in the middle of “One-Act Science Comedic Showcase” at Explora. It’s not so much that it’s beyond awful, which it is. It’s not so much that you should never consider subjecting yourself to it, which you shouldn’t. Mostly, it’s that “One-Act Science Comedic Showcase” should never have been allowed to go up in the first place. Also, it’s a complete embarrassment that Explora is even asking people to pay money to see it.
The New Mexico women’s basketball team will remain without its starting center for the 2014-15 season. Head coach Yvonne Sanchez dismissed Ebony Walker from the team after Walker was charged with domestic violence following an alleged altercation with Tredarius Moten on Nov. 4. “The decision was made with thoughtful consideration for Ebony and our basketball program,” Sanchez said.
According to the Macpherson report, institutional racism is “the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their color, culture or ethnic origin, which can be seen or detected in processes; attitudes and behavior which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping that disadvantages minority ethnic people.” Whether one believes that institutional racism is real or not, there has long been a perception in so-called minority communities throughout the United States that the various police departments are ready to kill them on the flimsiest pretext. As of this writing, Ferguson, Missouri prepares for a possible race riot if police officer Darren Wilson is not indicted in the killing of black youth Michael Brown.
The New Mexico men’s basketball team will play its first game away from The Pit this week when it faces Boston College in the ESPN Puerto Rico Tip-Off.
The gun went off, Aaron Trumm shot up from his crouched position and sprinted with exhilaration rushing through his veins, his lungs expand to 90 percent capacity. Just one year after his lung transplant in July 2013, Trumm won the bronze award in the 100-meter dash at the Transplant Games of America in Houston, Texas.
Wins and losses don’t always tell the entire story. New Mexico has been competitive for almost every game this season, but has failed to beat quality teams and is now 3-7 on the year, 1-5 Mountain West.
Car robbed in R Lot On Nov. 2, a report was made with UNM Police Department in reference to an auto burglary.
UNM researchers are looking into the science of getting high in their latest study analyzing the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain. While initial results cannot say whether the enduring effects of cannabis are positive or negative, one thing is certain — habitual use changes the structure of the brain.
The unofficial results for the Nov. 4 general election show Republican Aubrey Dunn Jr. as the winner of the New Mexico land commissioner race — at least for now. The results were so close that incumbent Democrat Ray Powell still has a chance at retaining his position. Not every state offers a recount in the case of close elections, but New Mexico does. In this state, an automatic recount is required when the margin of votes between two candidates is “less than one-half of one percent of the total votes cast for that office”.
Warning: If you have not read of the other books in “The Heroes of Olympus” series prior to this one, this review contains spoilers from the past four installments of this series.
Students lose things every day from water bottles to Lobo ID cards, hats to keys. But what few Lobos have in the first place is an idea of where to go to find these things. That place is the lost and found office at the UNM Police Department, located at 2500 Campus Blvd. NE. Darlene Trujeque works at the office, which is the primary one on campus, and said she is skeptical about students’ awareness of the lost and found.
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