For at least the third time this calendar year, an on-campus bomb threat that shook up the University turned out to be a hoax. UNM Police Department public information officer Lieutenant Tim Stump responded to the bomb threat early Tuesday morning immediately after UNMPD received an anonymous call warning of potential blasts.
Tuesday’s performance of “The Nutcracker” at Popejoy Hall by the New Mexico Ballet Company was cancelled due to a bomb threat early that morning. Emily Fine, executive director of the New Mexico Ballet Company, said her dancers were minutes away from warming up for their production of the Nutcracker in the building when they were evacuated.
Innovate ABQ gathered more funds to support itself last week. According to a news release, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration awarded a $1.5 million grant to UNM’s Science and Technology Corporation (STC), the University department leading the Innovate ABQ effort.
New Mexico redshirt junior center Alex Kirk said that while playing for the Americans at the World University Games in Russia, he spent time in the cafeteria with New Mexico State guard Daniel Mullings, who played for the Canadian team.
I don’t often dream about real people. I’ve been having a reoccurring dream about one particular woman. She’s the object of perhaps the greatest love I’ve had for any woman. Perhaps just a great first love. We split under rather extreme circumstances. I avoided all contact with her and knowledge of her life — partly our of respect for her and partly out of necessity.
Jak Bailey has been in music for nearly 30 years, on both the performance and business sides of an illustrious career. Now that he’s released his latest album, “Electric Noize,” Bailey is taking some time to reflect on his musical past.
Chicken Fried Steak is a truly Southern dish, but it’s loved all across America. Closely related to Austrian Wienerschnitzel (breaded veal cutlet) and Italian or South American Milanesa (breaded veal or pork) and even Scottish collops, this dish is considered one of Texas’ offerings to American cuisine.
At about 10:15 a.m., UNMPD Operations Lieutenant Trace Peck said APD bomb squad officials cleared inspection of the Popejoy, Ortega and Mitchell Halls. Peck said three teams of bomb squad officials entered each building with one sniffing dog each. None found anything suspicious in any of the structures, he said. UNMPD public information officer Tim Stump said classes will resume in the buildings at 11 a.m.
A UNM professor aims to inspire students and faculty to study in central Europe. The Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) selected Angela Wandinger-Ness, a UNM professor of pathology, as a research ambassador to Germany.
On Wednesday night, a few UNM students will celebrate their identities through art. About 80 students taking a Freshman Learning Community course will present their poetry, posters and digital artwork at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, said Chicano and Chicana Studies Department Director Irene Vasquez.
This week has some awesome cultural events that you won’t find anywhere but New Mexico. Remember to have a safe and happy holiday season.
Aaron Carter, American teen icon of the early 2000s, will grace the stage this month during his first tour in eight years, the After Party tour. Here’s hoping Carter will perform such timeless classics as “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” “Bounce” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq.
Dear readers, This is my last column of the semester. This means most of you are too busy to read it, having higher priorities like studying for finals or writing papers. This is fine; I’m not offended. There is a time and place for everything.
Editor, The Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill of 24 million gallons is the largest poisoning of underground water in the history of the United States. 24 million gallons is almost twice the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Read the powerful lead story in the Nov. 28 – Dec. 4 issue of the Weekly Alibi exposing this catastrophe.
Editor, In reply to the previous letters regarding the State of Israel and differing versions of history, I can only say this: The Jewish people accepted the desert; the Arabs refused the fertile land of honey.
Editor, The idea that the U.S. is lower down on happiness statistics because it isn’t laissez-faire capitalist enough is nonsense.
It’s not completely foreign territory, but the New Mexico men’s soccer team entered rarefied air on Sunday night. With their 2-0 victory over Penn State at the UNM Soccer Complex, the No. 7 seed Lobos reached the Elite Eight for the second time in school history.
Students have signaled interest in starting a bike-share program on campus. According to the results of a recent bike-share survey conducted by ASUNM’s Green Fund Committee earlier this semester, 81.7 percent of respondents said they would like to see such a program on campus. 18.3 percent said they wouldn’t.
Right before Thanksgiving break, property crime on campus was on the rise. UNM Police Department Operations Lt. Trace Peck said that the number of backpack and bicycle thefts increased by more than half the usual number the week before the four-day weekend. But he said the department saw this coming.
Catholic Croats flocked to the capital city Zagreb Sunday to vote on a referendum that would ban same-sex marriage in the Balkan state. Because the Croatian constitution does not define marriage, the referendum seeks to change the constitution to define marriage as a “union between a man and a woman,” Agence France-Presse reported.
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