For the first 36 minutes of Saturday’s contest, the UNM women’s basketball team went toe-to-toe with league-leading TCU. But the Lobos were outscored 13-3 down the final 7:13 of the game to lose 84-71 at The Pit. “We played a good offensive game,” freshman forward Morgan Toben said.
Dairese Gary has saved his best for last. The UNM men’s basketball team senior guard scored 58 points in his last two games, a career-high 32 points coming in an 80-70 win at TCU that halted the Lobos’ four-game losing streak.
Editor, As a lecturer for the psychology department and an instructor of the drugs and behavior class, I was pleased to read that a state senator is looking to regulate and outlaw “Spice” and similar products.
Dear Dr. Peg, What is the best way of dealing with the depression that occurs after a breakup? Dear Broken Up, The end of a relationship is always painful, no matter what the relationship, how it ended or who ended it.
This time it’s the quarterback coach who has been sacked. UNM assistant coach David Reaves is accused of violating NCAA regulations while he was coaching at the University of Tennessee in 2009.
It could be worse for the UNM men’s basketball team. The Lobos, who have lost their last four Mountain West Conference games, head to Fort Worth, Texas, to face last-place TCU.
Editor, The “Center of the Universe,” Bruce Nauman’s art piece outside Ortega Hall, and reporter Alexandra Swanberg’s Feb.
The NBA arms race is leading us down a path to Cold War. The leveraging of power between players and owners will inevitably lead to a standoff, and we all know what that means.
The Lottery Scholarship fund could run dry, and if the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee’s prediction is correct, funds will dry up by 2014. The Lottery Fund continues to finance more students and pay more for each student because of tuition hikes.
One state senator wants to outlaw synthetic marijuana in New Mexico. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort (R-Sandia Park) introduced a bill that would ban synthetic cannabinoids and fine anyone caught using or selling it. Beffort said children’s safety is at stake. “(Parents) might not know that their children are getting high on harmless-sounding products like incense, potpourri and bath salts,” she said.
The Faculty Senate unanimously approved a proposal to create a dental medicine department at UNM. UNM’s dental medicine programs are under the Health Science Center’s Department of Surgery but have grown large enough to need their own department, the proposal said. Most University Health Science Centers already have a dentistry department, UNM Chief of Dental Services Gary Cuttrell said. “We’re just bringing UNM’s health sciences up to the standard of most health science centers with a department of dentistry,” he said. Faculty Senate President-elect Tim Ross said UNM should have a dentistry department because dental hygiene programs don’t belong under a surgery department. “There’s already a dentistry sciences program, and for years it’s existed under the Department of Surgery at UNM …,” he said.
Point guard Dairese Gary sat alone on the floor and contemplated the future after his team’s demoralizing overtime loss on Wednesday.
Student Health and Counseling placed tighter limits on services last month in order to meet increased demands on a stagnant budget. SHAC slashed counseling and psychiatric sessions available to students in a 12-month period from 20 to 12.
Huwaida Arraf, an activist onboard one of the ships seized by the Israeli Defense Force in the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, spoke at the SUB on Tuesday.
Student veterans have the chance to reduce their stress one pinprick at a time. The Veterans Acupuncture Clinic, a free service for UNM and CNM student veterans and their loved ones, holds sessions Tuesdays at 4 p.m.
A group of about 70 students, faculty and staff came together Wednesday to plan ways to force UNM’s administration to “focus on the University’s core academic mission.” Graduate Employees Together, or G.E.T., organized the meeting, which featured information on the University’s funding. The University’s tuition revenue has doubled in the last decade, because of tuition increases and a rise in enrollment, according to G.E.T.
Editor, I was so surprised and shocked to see the picture of the shelter cat on the Daily Lobo’s front page Wednesday morning.
Editor, The only vending machine in Woodward Hall has been out of order for three weeks now. There is no number listed on the machine to report problems, and obviously, no one is even coming to stock it. It is drawing electricity, keeping the overpriced Pepsi beverages nice and cold.
Editor, It seems to me that far too many human beings have stopped being aware that we are imperfect and thus subject to saying and doing things, at times, that are not consistent with our basic characters.
They say behind every great man there’s a great woman. Well, in the UNM production of “And Then They Came for Me,” behind a great cast are three great women.
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