Most music scenes have a band or two that are heralded as being the genre’s “nice guys.” The Swellers fit that bill in the world of melodic punk. These Flint, Mich. natives play music that is fast, fun and stripped of the pretense countless other punk bands have.
New Mexico men’s soccer coach Jeremy Fishbein said at the weekly coaches luncheon Tuesday he has interviewed for the head job with FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer franchise.
Growing up with a television set in his room, Vic Strasburger said he knows how powerfully media can influence children and adolescents. “They are what you make out of it,” he said. “They can be incredibly, extremely bad if you’re talking about violent Internet pornography. They can be intrinsically good if you’re talking about ‘Sesame Street.’
As student government elections near, some candidates are already geared up to snag a Senate seat. The Aspire for Associated Students of the University of New Mexico slate has started its campaign to be elected to the undergraduate student council’s Senate.
For members of (un)Occupy Albuquerque, the Marigold Parade is something deeper than an annual Mexican tradition. Armed with signs and fake money, (un)Occupy members marched along Isleta Boulevard on Sunday, to protest against the U.S.’s Mexican border policies as part of this year’s Día de Los Muertos celebrations.
If you haven’t already guessed the answer to Gollum’s riddle for Bilbo the Hobbit, which is the topic of this article, you will soon. Sunday was the famous “fall back” day, when we turned back our clocks at bedtime and got an extra hour of sleep. It always sounds so lazy and luxurious, until Monday afternoon when we go home in the dark, right?
Editor, Whoever pays the fiddler usually calls the tune. When a “scientific” study comes out saying that coffee is not harmful, always ask who paid for that study. Follow the money trail. If anyone who makes money off coffee helped pay for that study, do not swallow the claimed results as truth.
New Mexicans love their bacon, and the turnout of nearly 8,000 pork lovers at the Southwest Bacon Fest Saturday demonstrated that nicely. Some vendors were prepared for the large turnout, but others were not, leading to long waits for some booths, especially the beer vendors.
Why is there a rock musical about 1890s German school children hitting puberty in a cold, sexually confusing and unhelpful society? Well, because there was a play written in Germany on exactly that time about exactly that.
For most of us, the candy hangover is still going strong, so let’s make it an easy week filled with sitting events and quiet.
A celebration usually full of rejoice and remembrance of loved ones was riddled with politically influenced floats this weekend. Floats in this year’s Marigold Parade, which took place Sunday, included those from schools such as Del Norte High School, Erne Pyle Middle School and New Mexico International School.
Months after UNM’s student governments passed resolutions to make education cheaper for undocumented students, the UNM administration has expressed further support. UNM President Robert Frank said Friday he personally supports providing in-state tuition to DACA-qualified undocumented students.
With funds for the Lottery Scholarship dwindling to near exhaustion, the New Mexico Legislature and various universities in the state, including UNM, have been working to find a long-term solution to preserve it.
Australia’s High Court will hear arguments for and against legalizing same-sex marriage this week. The Australian Capital Territory, which includes the capital city of Canberra, became the first jurisdiction in the country to legalize same-sex marriage late last month, and the law is expected to come into effect in early December.
On Tuesday, November 19, the city of Albuquerque will vote on whether to abolish the right of women to abort after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Everyone has an opinion about abortion; it really is a controversial issue with reasonable arguments from both sides.
Editor, When I am asked how old I am, the answer I prefer to give is that I do not know. The reason I prefer that answer is because I know that I am not my physical body, but something other than my physical body that entered what became my physical body at what we refer to as “conception.”
As was apparent in Saturday’s preseason exhibition game at The Pit, college basketball teams will have to adjust to some new rule changes implemented by the NCAA. UNM and Eastern New Mexico combined for 49 total fouls in their exhibition, an 87-68 victory for the Lobos.
Despite a lopsided win in the first exhibition match, there are plenty of obvious kinks that need to be straightened out for the New Mexico women’s basketball team preseason.
The Lobo women’s soccer team lost Friday night on a controversial no-call by the referees. With 7:38 remaining in double overtime, San Diego State midfielder Kelsey Booth passed the ball to forward Haley Locker, who finished the shot past UNM sophomore goalkeeper Cassie Ulrich to win the game 1-0.
One more stop was all the New Mexico football team’s defense needed to make. But just as the Lobos have done all season long, they allowed San Diego State to march down the field for the game-clinching score at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, Calif.
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