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Graduate students form union to tackle cuts

Danielle Boudreau | November 1

UNM graduate students are organizing to find another way of tackling budget cuts that have left many uncertain about their jobs. Graduate Student Liza Minno-Bloom is forming Graduate Employees Together, a committee that advocates for graduate and teaching assistants. She said half of all UNM classes are taught by graduate students, and most estimates under-represent their impact.

Lobo fans file into the renovated Pit for the UNM men’s basketball team’s open house Monday. The men’s team will open its season Wednesday night in an exhibition game, while the women’s team will host an exhibition game Nov. 9.

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New Pit, new season: Arena opens for business

Ryan Tomari and Ruben Hamming-Green | November 1

The renovated and less-falling-apart Pit opened Monday for the first time since the $60 million upgrades were completed.

UNM head rugby coach Miguel Berthet strolls along during his team’s practice at Johnson Field. Berthet is a native of Argentina who played Rugby nearly his whole life.

News

Rugged and redeemed

Ryan Tomari | November 1

From chumps to champs Want to watch a winning football team? Well, OK, it’s not football, but to Europeans rugby is considered the father good ol’ American pigskin. The UNM rugby team, another successful club team, has changed its culture and become a top-10 club squad, rugby team member Drew Riordan said. “Right now the rugby season is a yearlong season,” he said.

Sports

Youngsters ready for season

Levi Lewis | November 1

The UNM baseball team is set for its annual Cherry and Silver World Series, Nov. 2-4 at Lobo Field.

Opinion

You can choose the lesser of two evils or choose to change

November 1

Editor, Thanks to the news organization WikiLeaks, the staunchest U.S. patriots can no longer hide in the stubborn denial closet.

Opinion

Political right and left are weighed down by their egos

November 1

Editor, Since President Obama’s election in January 2008, there has been an epidemic that began in what is referred to as the “political right” and spread into what is referred to as the “political left.” Now the mid-term election is almost here, and it appears that this epidemic is going to play a major role in determining who will serve as Congress members the next two years. This epidemic is best known as ERROR, an acronym for either Ego Running Rampant Over Reason, or Ego Running Rampant Over Reality. A historical review informs us that the ERROR epidemic has never had a positive outcome. Robert Gardiner Community member

Opinion

Draw back 'curtain of silence'; attend Abunimah's seminar

November 1

Editor, Events on a sliver of land in southwest Asia, aka the Middle East, are so important in southwest U.S.

Opinion

Cartoon mischaracterizes our Muslim brothers and sisters

November 1

Editor, I was totally dismayed by the Oct. 28 editorial cartoon. I am a passionate defender of free speech, but this was just so wrong on so many levels.

News

Locals host sanity rally ABQ-style

Ruben Hamming-Green | November 1

As thousands flocked to Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity,” Albuquerque had its own. Michele Lupowitz, event organizer, said the point of the rallies was not to point fingers at specific politicians or criticize political beliefs, but to support rational dialogue missing in politics today.

News

Come talk social change with TED

Eva Dameron | November 1

Today will manifest a field of ideas across UNM. Today is for the future. Today marks the campus’ first TEDx event from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in SUB Ballroom C. TEDx, representing technology, entertainment, design and “x” for the unknown, is an international initiative, and the University’s version will offer eight hours packed with talks about issues of social change, said organizer and graduate student Mark Worthy. All speakers are affiliated with UNM. “It’s important, especially at an academic institution of higher learning, for opportunities to exist so people can engage in the assimilation of information,” he said. Worthy, who is studying organizational learning and instructional technology, coordinated the event to seat 100 people. He said he first learned about TEDx lectures when he got an e-mail while living in the Netherlands. “I began to read it, and I viewed some TED talks,” he said. “I was really inspired by the concept of the spreading of ideas — very simple, uncomplicated.”

News

Breast incident exposes Frontier

Chelsea Erven | November 1

New Mexico law protects women’s rights to breast-feed in public, but a UNM student and mother said a security guard and employees at the Frontier Restaurant violated that statute.

Culture

Southern tale will suck you back into the Vortex

Graham Gentz | October 29

The Vortex is back with the South again, as politely Machiavellian as ever. “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman tells the story of a wealthy, but poignantly non-aristocratic southern family that fall victim to their own destructive methods that created their own greedy success.

Sports

Knee surgery sidelines center for a month

Ryan Tomari | October 29

For Drew Gordon, it was an injury that sounded scarier than it turned out to be. The UCLA transfer had surgery Monday to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.

Head basketball coach Steve Alford paces the sideline inside The Pit during a 2009-10 game. Alford said he is preparing his team to play two exhibition games, starting with Eastern New Mexico on Wednesday.

Sports

Alford gears up to start season in new Pit

Ryan Tomari | October 29

It’s gone from months down to weeks, and now it’s only days away. The UNM men’s basketball team is ready to defend its back-to-back Mountain West Conference regular-season championships.

Wide receiver Chris Hernandez evades San Diego State cornerbacks Leon McFadden, No. 2, and Nate Berhe during Saturday’s 30-20 loss. The Lobos, 0-7 overall, travel to Colorado State on Saturday.

Sports

Will this year's result resemble last year's?

Chris Fernandez | October 29

The good news: Last year, UNM beat Colorado State 29-27 in its only win of the season. The bad news: This year, the Rams, 2-6, are improved. The Lobos, 0-7 and searching for their first win, travel to Fort Collins, Colo., on Saturday. Head coach Mike Locksley said UNM is coming off its strongest performances of the year, a 30-20 loss to San Diego State at University Stadium. “I think our guys expect to get the best from Colorado State,” Locksley said.

Opinion

Don't blame capitalism; blame politicians spending at liberty

October 29

Editor, I believe that the record should be set straight as to the facts about capitalism and liberty. This rhetoric infects a large proportion of our population with the long-held belief that capitalism is at the heart of our woes.

Opinion

Crushing national debt will be passed on to our children

October 29

Editor, What have we done to our children and grandchildren? We have destroyed their economic future by demanding politicians give us legislation that makes us happy. The cost of our happiness is the $13.6 trillion debt put on the nation’s credit card — our children’s card.

Opinion

Affordable eats can make students more affable, healthy

October 29

Editor, It’s proven that college makes you gain weight. The “freshman 15” is the dreaded statistic we hear entering college life.

News

Underexposed: Janitors

Jakob Schiller | October 28

For Francisco Gonzalez, his custodial job at the SUB is a welcome distraction. “If I wasn’t working, I’d probably go out of my mind,” he said.

News

UNM says dorm demolition cheaper

Barron Jones | October 28

The future does not look bright for Santa Ana Hall. As part of a two-phase plan, the University will demolish the 172-student dorm to make room for two construction projects that will add nearly 1,000 student beds to the main campus by fall 2012, said Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate Operations. Murphy said that Santa Ana is more than 50 years old, small and requires improvements that could cost more than new construction.