Opinion
Dr. Peg's Prescription: Carbohydrates kill weight loss goals
By Peggy Spencer | October 22By Peggy Spencer, M.D.You know those moments in life that hit you upside the head and brand your brain?
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Crime briefs
October 22On Sept. 29, UNM Police Department took a report in reference to harassment and battery.
Sports
Lobos break losing skid
Liam Cary-Eaves | October 22Leaving past performances in the rear view mirror is what the New Mexico volleyball team hopes will get it back on track.In a 3-0 sweep against New Mexico State (11-8, 5-2 WAC), the Lobos snapped a four-match losing streak with one of their better offensive performances of the season, hitting above .225 in each of the three sets.
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Nobel laureate to speak on campus
Matthew Reisen | October 22A Nobel Laureate is coming to main campus to speak today.John C. Mather, an American astrophysicist and cosmologist known particularly for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, is doing a free public talk tonight at 7 p.m. in Keller Hall, according to a UNM press release.
Opinion
Super nutrition, raw food treats alcoholism
October 22Editor,Nutritionist Roger Williams in the 1950s proved that not enough nutrients causes alcoholism.In experiments with rats, only 10 percent of those with full nutrition became alcoholic.
Culture
Lookin' Fresh: Accessories can make or break an outfit
Courtney Salinger | October 21It’s Monday morning. The outfit is complete. Colors and patterns match perfectly and everything seems to be in place.Wait a second — it’s time to accessorize.
Culture
Locals mark Wilderness Act anniversary
Moriah Carty | October 21This year marks the 50th anniversary for the Wilderness Act signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and some enthusiasts took time to educate people about the Great Outdoors. The Get Wild Festival, celebrated Saturday at the Civic Center, drew attention to the act that helped protect 9.1 million acres of wilderness lands.
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Attorney says tax evasions cost IRS billions
Tomas Lujan | October 21By Tomas LujanThe Internal Revenue Service may be forfeiting billions of dollars in taxes from some of the nation’s largest companies.
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Grant gives colleges tools to help workers
Sayyed Shah | October 21Eleven community colleges – including UNM’s four branch campuses – in New Mexico will receive $15 million in federal funding to create innovative training programs in partnership with local businesses to get New Mexican adults into the workforce.This funding allows colleges across New Mexico to provide workers with quality job training to help fill New Mexico’s expanding health care and technology workforce needs, U.S.
Culture
Book review: Sex satire consumes readers in Palahniuk's latest
Jyllian Roach | October 21If a subject can be taken to its irrational extreme and then blended with the most disturbing imagery possible, Chuck Palahniuk will find the way.His latest novel “Beautiful You” does just that with arousal addiction, and more broadly, manufactured experience versus actual experience.
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Unborn persons lawsuit a possibility with Colorado amendment
October 21Editor,While I have no intention of starting a debate via opinion letters, I do feel that I should speak out against the personal slander from Sade Patterson’s Amendment 67 article response, in which she referred to me as “uneducated.” Regarding the issue, I am in fact quite well versed in the facts and have not only read Amendment 67 in full (that is, not picking out a select few words of it and espousing that single point), but I also explained in the article what the law would actually mean for Colorado voters.
Sports
Close shave for Neal at Lobo Howl
Kyle Tomasi | October 20Walking around campus this past year and a half, students may have noticed something a little different about senior guard Hugh Greenwood. That something? He has been growing his hair past his shoulders.He said he grew the long locks because his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 18 months ago.Other members of the Lobo men’s basketball team got on board to help, too. Head coach Craig Neal and his son, sophomore guard Cullen Neal, have also been growing out their hair to show support for Greenwood’s family.
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Despite Martinez, Hispanics stick with Dems.
J.R. Oppenheim , Priscilla Banuelos and Marcus Jaramillo | October 20Even with a Hispanic Republican governor in the midst of a re-election bid, more of New Mexico’s Latino voters side with Democrats at the ballot box, political experts said. Gov. Susana Martinez in 2010 became the nation’s first Hispanic woman to win a gubernatorial election, but data from the research website Latino Decisions suggests she accumulated 38 percent of the Hispanic votes during that race against Diane Denish, who generated 61 percent. Martinez netted more Hispanic voters in 2010 than Republicans in other races nationally, but she did not draw a majority, said Gabe Sanchez, a UNM political science professor.
Opinion
Berry should care less about zoo murder than Boyd murder
October 20Jasper, the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo’s Tasmanian devil, has passed on. While it's a unique and touching story making headlines around town, I think Mayor Richard Berry's response is both disingenuous and embarrassing.
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Sports Briefs for Oct. 20
Thomas Romero-Salas and Kyle Tomasi | October 20The New Mexico men’s soccer team lost 1-0 at Kentucky on Saturday night. Wildcat forward Justin Laird scored the only goal of the game in the 31st minute with a volley from 10 yards out over the defense, according to golobos.com.
Opinion
Colorado's personhood amendment misunderstood
October 20Colorado is on the move to define an unborn human being as a “person” via Amendment 67 “Protection of Pregnant Mothers and Unborn Children,” which will be up for vote on the Nov. 4 ballot.
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Haaland: Culture big part of campaign focus
Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20If Democratic candidate Deb Haaland is elected as New Mexico’s lieutenant governor on Nov. 4, she will be the first Native American to hold the position. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, has spent most of her life in Albuquerque and said her values remain rooted in her native traditions.Haaland has been involved in political campaigns for the past 10 years. In 2004 she worked as a full-time volunteer for the John Kerry campaign. She also worked for the Barack Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012 alongside her daughter, who has assisted with political campaigns since she was nine years old.
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Football: Last -minute plays not enough to top Falcons
Thomas Romero-Salas | October 20Lamar Jordan didn’t display any late-game magic against Air Force. The freshman quarterback led New Mexico on its final three drives, but came away with zero points as the Lobos lost 35-31 to the Falcons in Colorado Springs on Saturday.UNM’s last three possessions amounted to just 26 yards on 11 plays.
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Urge to serve paves path for Sanchez
Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20This November, Republican incumbent John Sanchez hopes to win his second term as lieutenant governor of New Mexico. And his prospects look good.His fate is tied to that of his running mate, Gov. Susana Martinez, who is leading in the polls against the Democratic ticket of Gary King and Deb Haaland.Sanchez said he has always had a passion for helping people and wanting to make New Mexico a better place to live. He said it emerged as a desire to serve publicly after his being a business owner for more than 20 years.
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Volleyball: Team's problems a mystery to coach, players
Liam Cary-Eaves | October 20Head coach Jeff Nelson is searching for solutions to the New Mexico volleyball team’s recent struggles. UNM (11-9, 4-4 Mountain West) is on a four-match losing streak, and the unit’s recently faltering play is baffling Nelson.“I don’t really have answers right now,” Nelson said following a 3-1 loss to Wyoming (16-5, 5-3 MW) on Saturday.
