The UNM rugby team is going national — or trying to, anyway. With some help from Coaches Sports Grill, rugby team members are having a fundraiser tonight at the UNM-area sports bar. Alex Melad, three-year UNM rugby team member, said the team has never had local help. “It’s great because in the past no one has really ever supported us,” he said.
When it comes to New Mexico’s film industry, state legislators are tough critics. Gov. Susana Martinez said in her State of the State speech Jan.
Students may have gotten Tuesday off, but hundreds of UNM employees were shoveling sidewalks, clearing roads and preparing UNM’s buildings to withstand icy winds and bone-chilling temperatures.
Editor, While it appears that Western puppet Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship is on its last legs, the outcome is still up in the air.
Editor, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several other heads of state urged the Egyptian government on Sunday to implement democratic reforms and to stop further violence against protesters. Merkel told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a phone call that she expects him and his newly nominated government to grant the Egyptian people freedom of information and the right to assemble, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. She urged Mubarak, in a lengthy conversation, to open dialogue with the country’s citizens and focus on Egyptian youths’ concerns.
Feb. 8 Reverend Horton Heat Launchpad 21 and up $20 The seminal sound of psychobilly, a cross of rockabilly and hardcore punk rock, means it kind of works as country music for people who think country music is lame.
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” Miriam Beard, Historian For two San Diego cyclists, the idea of living is a charitable cause on wheels. And “Give a Bike” has Adam and Christy Coppola traversing the country.
SANTA FE — More than 80 UNM students rode the Rail Runner to the Roundhouse with a message: University students cannot sustain further tuition increases.
University Counsel ruled the Open Meetings Act does not apply to the Student Fee Review Board process, according to a counsel memo sent to ASUNM President Laz Cardenas on Jan.
GPSA unanimously passed a resolution to support the elimination of the word “illegal” in reference to people. The El Centro de la Raza presented the resolution at Saturday’s GPSA Council meeting and asked members to endorse the “Drop the I” campaign.
I doubt you needed the just-released UCLA survey to tell you, but you might have been surprised that apparently more than half of freshmen think they are emotionally less healthy than their neighbor.
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — More than 400 people from the U.S. and Mexico met at the border fence Saturday in a display of solidarity with people affected by violence in Juárez.
UNM students will join activists from around the state to protect undocumented-resident access to driver’s licenses and higher education.
Two Board of Regents positions remain available after Gov. Susana Martinez rejected a regent selection process proposed by the UNM Faculty Senate.
Cody Ross had a November that he will never forget. Ross, who is from Portales, N.M., and a graduate of Carlsbad High School is a Major League Baseball player who won the 2010 World Series with the San Francisco Giants. Ross said winning the Fall Classic was bigger than life to him. “It’s surreal,” he said. Ross was honored by UNM and head Lobo baseball coach Ray Birmingham on Friday night at a UNM-sponsored banquet to celebrate Ross’s achievements at Ladera Golf Course.
For the UNM track and field team, this weekend’s meet was the equivalent of a college-prep test, and the Lobos already look to be in top shape.
Revenge is sweet for the UNM men’s tennis team — especially when it comes against its biggest rival. After dropping a disappointing 4-3 decision to rival New Mexico State last season, the Lobos rebounded for a 5-2 win Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex. Head coach Alan Dils said his team waited a year for vindication. “We didn’t like losing in Las Cruces last year,” he said.
In Section 21 of The Pit, three BYU fans showed up with a sign that read, “You Got Jimmered.” Unfortunately for the Cougars and their fans, BYU got “Snelled” on Saturday.
Editor, Democracy? I need help understanding why the government of the United States, which claims to always be promoting democracy for the people in all other nations on this planet, appears to be threatened when the people in nations like Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and Yemen take measures in their own hands to oust an oppressive ruler who denies them democracy, and replace that oppressive government with a democratic one based on the principle of “government of, by and for the people.” I think I already know the answer to that, and I do not like the answer.
On the first day of the legislative session, Gov. Susana Martinez told a packed House chamber that she will work to reinstate the death penalty.
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