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UNM 125: Daughters of MLK, Malcolm X to stage musical

Printed November 28, 1990 The daughters of assassinated Black leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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by Audra Meiklejohn The UNM women’s basketball team is among the best in the nation. The Lobos proved themselves Monday night at The Pit, pulling an upset over Mississippi State, 73-61. UNM carried over its confidence and intensity from a huge comeback victory Saturday over the University of Miami and fearlessly faced the 13th-ranked Bulldogs.

UNM 125: Volleyball wins first-round match

Printed December 9, 1981 After a first round win over Miami (Ohio), the Lobo women’s volleyball team will be seeking an early Christmas gift this weekend at the NCAA Southwest Regional meet in Provo, Utah. UNM defeated the Redskins 11-15, 15-11, 15-11, 15-9 Saturday night at University Arena before almost 1,500 fans, and will move on to play second-ranked San Diego State Friday night. But after the first game against Miami, head coach Mike Hebert may have been hearing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” in his head.

UNM 125: UNM retires Urlacher's number

Printed November 11, 2013 Fans rose to their feet as soon as the video montage started. They roared when he appeared on the video screen next to a red cloth covering his framed No.

UNM 125: Plummer cracks record

Printed May 29, 1963 What a way to go – and man did he go! Adolph Plummer in his last appearance for the Lobos retired as the world’s fastest 440 yd.

UNM 125: Lobos victors in Sun Bowl Game

Printed January 4, 1946 A great University of New Mexico eleven, led by the superb passing of Rocket Don Rumley and the powerful running of Rudy Krall, came from behind twice to defeat Denver University 34-24, in a thrill-packed New Year’s day game in the Sun Bowl.

UNM 125: Historic climb, heartbreaking fall

Printed December 12-16, 2005 CARY, N.C. – The biggest game in college soccer can also bring the biggest disappointment. UNM goalkeeper Mike Graczyk let one ball past the goal line in the NCAA College Cup Championship.

UNM 125: Athletic housecleaning continues

Printed January 14, 1980 On Sept. 25, 1979, the National Collegiate Athletic Association filed 57 allegations of rules violations against the UNM men’s basketball program. Less than three months later, enough information had been revealed through local, state and federal investigations to lead the UNM Athletic Council to unanimously recommend the resignation of basketball coach Norm Ellenberger. Since that time, the public has been rocked and shocked by daily revelations of player ineligibility, wire tappings, illegal recruiting tactics, questionable bank loans to athletes, and several in-house investigations. The UNM athletic scandal has reached the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time and Newsweek.

UNM 125: N.C. State Wolfpack stuns Houston

Printed APril 5, 1983 An uncontested dunk as time ran out made the underdog North Carolina State Wolfpack the national champion Monday night in one of the most stunning upsets in the history of college basketball. The 26-10 Wolfpack completed the final chapter in their storybook season by shocking the Houston Cougars 54-52 at University Arena to take the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship.

UNM 125: Supporters of democracy must protest deportation

Printed October 30, 1985 Editor: I was concerned to read your Oct. 25 article about the seven UNM students who, using the American flag as a backdrop, asked Margaret Randall to leave our country.

UNM 125: Didn't you ask

Printed November 28, 1941 Dear out of stater. Listen fellow, don’t you go tellin’ me as how as they play ball back home.

UNM 125: On cleaning one's teeth in public

Printed May 2, 1964 Were you ever in an old farm-home during mealtime? If so, then you will probably recall that when meals are over, the men lean back in their chairs and intersperse their conversation with queer little sucking noises issuing from their mouths, following hard upon the advent into the mouth of a small piece of wood, used in place of other instruments for the cleansing of the teeth.

UNM 125: The Mirage, January 1899

Printed January 1899 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY There should be the closest sympathy between the city and the University located within its borders.

UNM 125: The U.N.M. Weekly

Printed January 6, 1912 Items of Local Interest J.W. Miller was seen in the halls on Friday morning. E.S.

UNM 125: Banks replies

Printed March 9, 1962 Dear Sir: What are “little” Student Senators made of? Sugar, spice, snails puppy dog tails?

UNM 125: The ancient history of the University

Printed December 10, 1926 In 1889 the Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passed an act establishing this University.

Headline: Senate Move Seen After Negro Test Group Is Served Sub: Action would end more than two months of protest boycott The student body boycott of Walgreen drug store is expected to be lifted early this week as the result of an apparent change of policy by the local store. The boycott was invoked ...

UNM 125: Scattered violence erupts during strike

Printed May 11, 1970 The deployment of the National Guard on campus to oust students occupying the Union, joint faculty student recommendations of a “free university,” and scattered acts of violence followed in quick succession this weekend while the University was closed. A 150 man unit of the National Guard was called on campus Friday evening by New Mexico State Police Chief Martin Vigil to help city, state, and campus police to oust students who had occupied the New Mexico Union building since Wednesday afternoon. Vigil was executing a court order sought by the UNM Regents to have the building cleared.

UNM 125: New library building expected to be opened in September, 1937

Printed May 1, 1936 September, 1937 is the expected date of the opening of the University’s new $370,000 library building.

UNM 125: UNM community reacts to terrorist attacks

Printed September 12, 2001 By Iliana Limón UNM’s main campus was eerily quiet Tuesday afternoon following the University administration’s decision to close the school in response to terrorist attacks in Washington D.C.