Former Lobo great and NFL linebacker Brian Urlacher will accept an honor that no other New Mexico football player has received. He will officially have his number, 44, retired by UNM. The announcement came Tuesday after the University had initially decided to retire Urlacher’s jersey and not his number.
A University department is trying to learn more about synthetic marijuana. Tiffany Martinez, health educator for UNM’s Campus Office of Substance Abuse and Prevention (COSAP), said her department is conducting more research on ‘spice.
College students need to become more informed about the nuances of the national debt situation, UNM students participating in a national project say.
The USA PATRIOT Act just turned 12 years old this past weekend, and it has been a dark specter hanging over the heads of Americans during its lifetime. Its wonderful-sounding name hides the intricacies of a law that violates numerous civil liberties in the name of security from terrorists, both foreign and domestic.
Editor, As a farm boy teenager in Illinois, I was addicted to television. I foolishly wasted hundreds of precious hours and I poisoned my mind watching violent programs. But I have owned no TV in Albuquerque since I first moved here 43 years ago. We can wake up, we can wise up, we can change.
I find it truly shameful that these anti-choice groups make women feel like murderers and killers for making decisions that they believe are best for their lives and their families. Contrary to anti-choice rhetoric, making the choice to have an abortion is difficult and often complex.
Growing up in a military family taught Sara Halasz to be disciplined, focused and a hard worker. These key values have helped her to be a star in the classroom as well as in her starting position at guard for New Mexico’s women’s basketball team.
In many games this season, the attack-oriented New Mexico men’s soccer team has found itself facing teams with more compacted defensive mentalities. Tonight the Lobos will host a Conference USA team that will try to beat them at their own game.
Junior right side hitter Chantale Riddle earned Mountain West Conference Player of the Week honors for the New Mexico volleyball team. This is the second MWC POW honors for Riddle in her career and her first this season.
Going into college, UNM alumna Amira Rasheed wished to pursue a double major in the sciences. As a student with cerebral palsy, she said she didn’t let her condition keep her away from her goals. “It was a big change, to take what (my family) taught me and kind of build my advocacy skills, where I can advocate for services for things I needed and wanted,” she said. “I wanted to be treated with dignity and respect like everyone else.”
UNM’s Parking and Transportation Services has found a new home on campus. PATS’s office, which was previously located on the intersection of Central Avenue and University Boulevard, has moved to the space beside the Cornell Parking Structure across from the UNM Bookstore.
After getting a new building this semester, UNM’s College of Education is expecting a new leader, as the University has begun a national search for the college’s dean.
I had a patient last week who told me the story of her illness, ending with, “and then I looked it up online, and that was a bad idea.” She had found that some of her symptoms matched some pretty serious diseases, and suddenly she went from sick to sick and scared.
Editor, I’m an exchange student from Italy. During my stay in New Mexico I’m trying to use this opportunity to figure out how Americans act in everyday life, as opposed to stereotypes and what comes from movies and broadcasting.
Editor, I am a student who, with the increase of the Bridge to Success Scholarship standards of a 3.0 GPA and a 23 ACT score, would have still been able to get the scholarship, and I write to tell you that not all of us are made equal.
There is one last free place in Albuquerque. The city is gone. Everything is gone. I don’t know if we can make it. If anyone can find the Quarantine.
The best part of Halloween in New Mexico is that it is immediately followed by Day of the Dead celebrations. Two holidays full of candy and costumes, what’s not to love? Check out this week’s list of scary, free events.
It’s 9 a.m. and sleepy students shuffle around a distracted student near the Duck Pond. Freshman Michael Laflin keeps an eye on the two figures on the hill; Michael Mirabal and Chris Duran stand next to a supply box
A blaze damaged a recycling facility south of Albuquerque International Sunport on Sunday. Larry Gallegos, public information officer for Bernalillo County, said piles of recycled material stacked in front of the Town Recycling warehouse caught fire at about noon.
The Graduate and Professional Student Association will begin gathering feedback from students regarding the construction of a new wellness center at UNM. James Foty, executive assistant for the president at GPSA, updated the council on its plans to build the center at a meeting Saturday.
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