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LaPo employee let go for allegedly harassing co-worker

A La Posada Dining Hall manager is no longer employed with UNM after being accused of assaulting a fellow employee.

Award assists mother of five

The Truman Scholarship is allowing one UNM student’s dreams to come true. Cara Valente-Compton, who got the $30,000 award, said she’s wanted to attend the UNM School of Law her entire life, and her award is allowing her to do so. “My plan has always been to attend the UNM School of Law.

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From towels to touchdowns: Former manager gets in the game

Last year, around this time, Levi Jaeckel was placing basketballs on racks and taking orders from the UNM men’s basketball team’s coaching staff. This spring, however, Jaeckel is running routes and catching passes for the UNM football team.

Positivity fosters quick recovery

Just. Like. That. “One play,” said running backs coach Darrell Dickey, “and it’s done.” Suddenly and callously. Terence Brown’s story is a real tear-jerker — how he was on the cusp of becoming the Lobos’ starting running back when he was dealt an unfavorable blow last April. Almost a year to the day later, on Saturday, Brown recollected the infamous practice with precise clarity. “I remember the whole situation, the exact play,” Brown said.

Tailbacks zero in on specific strengths

Gone are the days of the composite tailback. College football no longer lends itself to a do-it-all, one-man show in the backfield.

Clinched win proves it pays to stay

Cameron Smith found a home with the UNM baseball team. After ping-ponging from Yavapai College in 2007 to Salt Lake Community College in 2008, Smith came to the Lobos.

Stressful times call for mindful measures

Do you have stress? Stupid question, right? We all have stress. Do you want stress? Probably not. Although stress isn’t always a bad thing – pressure can make you produce, and sometimes you have to produce – it can harm you, too.

Ortiz y Pino rallies for campaign support

UNM faculty and students attended a fundraiser Friday night for Democratic Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s campaign to be lieutenant governor. About 100 people attended the fundraiser’s array of performances in Winrock Mall, which included three Albuquerque bands and poetry readings by UNM student-poets Damien Flores and Hakim Bellamy.

Question and Answer: Maria Williams

Associate Professor Maria Williams’ research incorporates an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and learning about music cultures in Alaska Native indigenous populations.

Cardenas beats Conway in student organization endorsements

ASUNM presidential candidate Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas received twice the number of student organization endorsements than his opponent.

GPSA, SBA agree to disagree

Representatives from the Student Bar Association and GPSA met Friday in a last-ditch effort to reconcile the organizations’ differences.

UNM bids tearful farewell to slain colleagues

On Friday, one month after the death of their colleagues Hector Torres and Stefania Gray, UNM community members gave public condolences during a memorial at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Nike ad depicts 'everything's OK in Tigerland

The Tiger Woods fallout has been long and arduous. Pundits and sponsors turned their backs on him, and Brit Hume, in his wisdom, begged the embattled golfer to find Jesus. Now Tiger’s zombie father is getting in on it. In a Nike ad released this week, the disembodied voice of Earl Woods, Tiger’s dead dad, asks his son what he’s learned from his mistakes.

Win redeems previous BYU losses

The UNM baseball team’s bats got started early and didn’t stop until the ninth inning, but neither did BYU’s.

Get To Know: Martin Gutierrez

Martin Gutierrez is running for GPSA president. The Daily Lobo talked with him about his campaign focuses, including making GPSA more transparent and reducing graduate student expenses.

Low voter turnout isn't just a problem for UNM

There is a specter haunting student government elections — the specter of low voter turnout. A president, vice president and 10 senators will be voted into the ASUNM government on April 14.

Stabbing victim recalls trauma

The victim of the Feb. 15 stabbing on campus has a pretty good idea what she was thinking right after a stranger plunged a knife into her neck. “How do you live through something like this?

I'm not a half-wit; I'm an introvert

Every now and then I’ll dine alone. I might see people I know that I could eat with or chat with.

9-11 was still an inside job, the media is hiding the truth

Editor, Do any conscious people still walk the halls of UNM? This is the question that I ask myself, as our national leaders continue to lie about the so-called “War on Terror.” This lie is only used as a justification for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.