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Thomas Romero-Salas | March 25The UNM men’s and women’s track teams accumulated 25 top-10 finishes at the UTEP Springtime Invitational on Saturday.
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Lobos fall to Harvard Crimson
J.R. Oppenheim | March 22The NCAA West No. 3 seed New Mexico, Mountain West regular-season and tournament champions, dropped out in the second round of the NCAA Men’s Division I National Championships Thursday night after a 68-62 loss to Harvard.
News
Race for GPSA president touches on campus safety
John Tyczkowski | March 22GPSA presidential candidates Sharif Gias and Priscila Poliana discussed on Thursday how they would have responded to the recent incidents of sexual battery and racism on campus.
Opinion
Dr. Pegs Prescription
Dr. Peggy Spencer | March 22Interpersonal conflict: It’s inevitable in human relationships. People are individuals, each with their own opinions, likes and dislikes.
Opinion
Sunlight is a cure-all if your lifestyle is healthy
March 22Editor, I enjoy walking many miles in town — shirt-free, in shorts and straw hat — in the brilliant sunshine. I appreciate conversations, friendly waves and honks, sexy whistles and yells and eating much fruit.
Sports
Bears bite back in doubleheader
Michael Sol Warren | March 22The UNM baseball team played two very different games on Tuesday as it split a doubleheader with Missouri State. The Lobos came away with an extra-innings win in the first game, but dropped the second in a blowout loss.
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MWC returns to ESPN this fall
Thomas Romero-Salas | March 22For the Mountain West Conference, more national exposure is right around the corner.
News
Lobo Men’s basketball coach Steve Alford awarded a 10-year contract, longest in UNM’s history
J.R. Oppenheim | March 21UNM and Steve Alford have reached an agreement for a new 10-year contract that will keep the men’s basketball coach at the school through 2023, the University announced Wednesday.
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Lobos hot to trot to hammer Harvard
J.R. Oppenheim | March 21By most evaluations, New Mexico’s 2012-13 season will be considered a success regardless of how the team’s NCAA tournament run turns out.
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Lobo Men’s basketball coach’s quarter-million dollar raise creates questions about faculty pay raises
John Tyczkowski | March 21UNM awarded a 10-year contract on Wednesday to men’s basketball head coach Steve Alford with a $240,000 salary increase, but some faculty are wondering about their own pay.
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Harvard and UNM sports reporters talk NCAA game
J.R. Oppenheim | March 21The Daily Lobo had a Q-and-A with Martin Kessler, the Harvard Crimson men’s basketball beat writer. Kessler is a senior sociology student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
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First round of debates for GPSA candidates tackles graduate research funding, protection of minority groups on campus
John Tyczkowski | March 21Both candidates to be president of UNM’s Graduate and Professional Students Association agree that graduate students need more funding, but their differing academic backgrounds made for different approaches at the forum on Wednesday in the SUB atrium.
Opinion
Climate change deniers, open your eyes
Peter Kindilien | March 21In rebuttal to those who have lamely attempted to flame me and others for our columns discussing the consequences and implications of continuing to pump carbon into the atmosphere, I offer the following.
Opinion
Secure the future: Off profs, surplus boomers
March 21Editor, I think at this propitious time it would prudent, in view of the looming deficit and the great insight shown in the recent piece about the safety net strangling the future, simply to euthanize all the boomers and the infirm who blight our future
Opinion
Having difficulty calling your doctor? Report it.
March 21Editor, Due to recent changes in UNM Hospital’s phone system, I can no longer reach my doctor directly. Does this perhaps put my life in danger?
Culture
Albuquerque Aerialist Collective twirls, drops and flies downtown
Celia McKinnon | March 21Many children dream of running away to the circus, but for members of the Albuquerque Aerialist Collective, the circus is just downtown.
Culture
Allah-las hit Albuquerque after SXSW
Annie Swift | March 21I’ve never attended the famous music and film festival South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, but because of its proximity to Albuquerque, some of the bands stopped by Sister Bar on their way out.
Culture
Joseph Campbell-inspired mythologists gather in Albuquerque
Antonio Sanchez | March 21People say there are some things they just don’t understand, but a group of local mythology buffs has found that many stories serve to explain the unexplainable in everyday life.
Sports
Daily Lobo and Harvard sports reporters discuss today's NCAA game between the Lobos and the Crimson
March 20The New Mexico men’s basketball team takes on Harvard on Thursday in the NCAA tournament second round in Salt Lake City. Seeded No. 3 in the West Region, UNM will tip off with the No. 14 seed Crimson at 7:50 p.m. The game will be televised on TNT.
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BREAKING NEWS: Alford gets 10-year extension as UNM basketball coach
J.R. Oppenheim | March 20The University of New Mexico and men’s head basketball coach Steve Alford have reached an agreement to a 10-year contract extension.
