Culture
Rare event brings comic relief to fanatics
Andrew Beale | January 18“Eclectic” is not a strong enough word to describe the mix of people and exhibits found at the Albuquerque Comic Con.
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Sports
SDSU maintains win streak against Lobos
Shaun Griswold | January 15The nation’s longest winning streak survived The Pit as San Diego State defeated the UNM men’s basketball team 87-77, its 19th consecutive win this season. The Lobos (13-5, 1-2 MWC) held a seven point lead early in the game but could not keep up when the No.
Sports
McDonald on fire in win over CSU
Shaun Griswold | January 13Another fire alarm delayed a home game at the $60 million University Arena, but Phillip McDonald was the only thing on fire at The Pit tonight. The Lobo junior came off the bench to lead the UNM men’s basketball team to a 68-61 win over Mountain West conference foe Colorado State University on Wednesday night. The Lobos (13-4, 1-1) faced criticism from head coach Steve Alford about lackadaisical play during their recent loss at Wyoming.
Opinion
Coach Hackett was a valuable teacher, family friend
Steve Maier | January 10I was saddened to read the featured sports page article in the Albuquerque Journal covering the passing of Coach Hugh Hackett. Coach Hackett was a wonderful person who touched many lives around him, both in and out of sports.
Opinion
Mixed messages during finals week is inexcusable
January 10Editor, The University administration has mastered the art of maximizing uncertainty. First the facts: On Dec.
Sports
Pupils of the court keep an eye on finals
Shaun Griswold | January 10Back in mid-December, after a blowout win at home against Longwood, head coach Steve Alford said, “We now go the better part of the month with the only class being basketball.” Now basketball school is over, and the UNM men’s basketball team passed.
Sports
Cowboys shoot from the hip to end streak
Ryan Tomari | January 10It’s not exactly how the UNM men’s basketball team wanted to start conference season. The Lobos saw Wyoming’s Paco Cruz sink an eight-foot floater over Lobo big man Alex Kirk’s head, and the Cowboys pulled out an 67-66 win in Laramie, Wyo.
Sports
Wyoming shoots baskets, not blanks
Nathan Farmer | January 10It was simple: Wyoming had a much better offensive performance than the UNM women’s basketball team at The Pit on Saturday. An early Lobo lead vaporized, and the Cowgirls outshot and outplayed the Lobos in a 63-53 win. “We had poor shooting,” head coach Don Flanagan said.
Sports
Stanford QB forgoes fame for brains
Ryan Tomari | January 10To quote one of my close friends, “It’s stupid.” That was his opinion of Andrew Luck forgoing $50 million in NFL money and staying for his junior season at Stanford. Agree to disagree. I love Luck’s move. In a statement released a couple of days after his season ended, Luck said, “I am committed to earning my degree and am on track to accomplish this at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012.” I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but with the state of college football — from the BCS being a disastrous system to the Cam Newton dilemma at Auburn to even Luck’s head coach Jim Harbaugh rushing toward the NFL — I was happy to see Luck stay at Stanford. I don’t want to make my case that Mr. Luck going back to school is good for college football. What’s good for college football is the game itself. I once wrote a piece before the 2009 World Series that the MLB needed the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees to meet up in the Fall Classic.
Culture
Year in review Hindsight is 20/10
January 102010 is the most sci-fi-sounding year yet. I mean, 2000 sounds pretty sci-fi, and 2001 is the best sci-fi movie with a year for a title, but 2010?
Culture
Laugh your tail off at Aux Dog
Graham Gentz | January 10Someone once said to me, “Ask me what the first rule of comedy is.” I began, “What’s the first rule of —” “Timing,” he blurted out, right in my face.
Culture
Actor talks theater, beavers
Chris Quintana | January 10Law Chavez is an M.F.A. UNM student and actor who traveled across the country for 12 years before returning to New Mexico.
Culture
Skiers scrape savings to stay on the slopes
Alexandra Swanberg | January 10While the recession has created a financial slippery slope, it has not deterred skiers and snowboarders from shelling out hundreds each season to indulge in their sports. Representatives from local skiing hotspots said the recession has made little difference in how well-attended their slopes are.
News
LGBTQ Update
Barron Jones | January 10The LGBTQ Resource Center will host a flag-raising ceremony to replace the flag that disappeared after one of two vandalism incidents against the center last month. Program Assistant David Griffith said the ceremony would honor the center’s mission of providing services to people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. “We aren’t reading too much into the situation,” he said.
News
UNM President denies Pit bid-rigging allegations
Ruben Hamming-Green and Shaun Griswold | January 10UNM President David Schmidly denied any wrongdoing in deciding to award an Oklahoma-based contractor a $60 million contract to renovate The Pit.
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News
A clear bill of health, a crowded to-do list
Chelsea Erven | January 10Despite a longer-than- expected recovery, UNM President David Schmidly is healthy and ready to tackle looming budget cuts. In a Jan.
News
Campus alerts leave some users behind
Shaun Griswold | January 10Cesar Dominguez-Garcia, the man suspected of firing a bullet into a sixth-floor ceiling of UNM Hospital pediatric unit during a family altercation, turned himself in Jan.
News
Team provides budget suggestions
Kallie Red-Horse | January 10The President’s Special Advisory Team completed its Fiscal Year 12 budget recommendations. President Schmidly initially charged the PSAT last spring to identify about $3 million in cost containment or revenue generation for the FY 11 budget.
News
Shooting suspect at large after pediatric ward domestic dispute
Kallie Red-Horse and Shaun Griswold | January 4UNMH and parts of north and central campus were locked down Tuesday afternoon to safeguard against an active-shooter situation, according to a message sent out by the University. Shortly after 3:50 p.m., UNM sent out notices on its UNMAlerts system notifying students, faculty and staff of the potential danger.
News
Schmidly recovers, returns as UNM president
Chelsea Erven | January 4UNM President David Schmidly is back at his post after almost six months of absence spent recovering from operations on an abdominal tumor. On Monday, doctors cleared President Schmidly to return to his duties at the University, and Schmidly said it’s good to be back. “My doctors cleared me to return to work…which has been my wish for the New Year,” he said in a University-wide e-mail.
