How many people can say they've gone snowboarding Downtown? Warehouse 508, a youth-oriented entertainment space, put together Fight for the Right, and the group is trucking in about 10 tons of snow for Albuquerque youth to legally snowboard and skateboard on Civic Plaza today, starting at 6 p.
Want to practice a foreign language without the pressure of getting a grade? No problema. UNM students can learn languages through the Conversation Partners program, which is restarting this semester. Paul Edmunds, academic manager at the UNM Center for English Language and American Culture, started the Conversation Partners program in 2002, but he said it lost momentum after a couple of years.
Editor, To President David Schmidly and Regents President Jamie Koch: Thank you for taking it easy on the employees of UNM by offering us the opportunity to take a voluntary furlough. For those of us canny enough to read between the lines, voluntary furloughs equal layoffs if not enough folks volunteer.
Editor, The coverage of all that has been going on at UNM lately has been superb. I've read about reactions from the students, staff and faculty with plenty of facts and interviews with people with different perspectives on the issues. Kudos. However - I know, there's always a however - the "Crisis hits the small screen" article, while excellent, got one thing very wrong.
Boy, the man can whistle. Fortune befell Albuquerque when Chicago's Andrew Bird, the violinist rock star, performed at El Rey on Friday night with three backup musicians. The band Loney, Dear opened with an atmospheric cross between shoegaze and head-in-the-clouds music, some Andrew Bird-lite to whet our appetites before the main show, but nothing that moved me to rapture.
UNM head baseball coach Ray Birmingham has a memo for all collegiate pitchers: Consider walking these Lobos. The Lobos are trying to create their own Death Row - and we're not talking about the record label. "I want murderers' row," Birmingham told GoLobos.
There's a reason Max Willett is the only nonsenior to be a captain for the UNM baseball team. Willett will join Lobo seniors Kevin Atkinson, Mike Brownstein, Dane Hamilton, Clinton Cox and Daniel Grubbs. "A captain has to walk the walk as much as talk the talk," head coach Ray Birmingham told GoLobos.
Doug Brown said he was looking for a new project to take on when he got the phone call - he was appointed dean of UNM's Anderson School of Management. Brown was interviewed on campus in January, along with two other finalists, for the position. Brown said he hadn't applied for the job but that he was nominated for it anonymously.
UNM's Student Affairs department is conducting another online survey to evaluate recreation programs and suggest improvements to Johnson Center, said Kim Kloeppel, fiscal planning officer for the department. Kloeppel said that as part of the planning phase for remodeling Johnson Center, UNM hired consulting firm Brailsford & Dunlavey, based in Washington, D.
Editor, I love UNM, and it is consoling to see such coverage of the current crisis enveloping this University. The importance of collaborative involvement to abate this manifesting problem cannot be overstated. It is, however, very disconcerting when I find that the president of ASUNM and other students like Charles Matthews are still defending President David Schmidly.
During a live television show Friday, representatives of the University's staff and faculty said UNM's financial and administrative problems originated with Gov. Bill Richardson. The roundtable discussion took place during an episode of New Mexico Indymedia.
Editor, In response to the Feb. 12 Opinion section of the Daily Lobo: Phillip Howell, you offer nothing as an alternative to the stimulus package. The only evidence of waste you write about is money to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is not a not-for-profit, much like any church; it is not called "Planned Abortion.
Hotel hospitality policies do not extend to the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah. There, the UNM men's basketball team has dropped eight straight to BYU on its home court, and UNM isn't the only opponent to face the wrath of the Cougars on their home floor. BYU produced a 53-game home winning streak from Nov.
Editor, I believe that the time is ripe to organize and get the type of university that we want. We need to act fast, though. Otherwise, this whole mess will blow right by, and we will not get a chance to speak. I am not currently a student, but I will be eventually, and I want to help participate in the creation of the new University.
Dozens of students showed up to ASUNM's biweekly meeting Wednesday to voice their disapproval of a proposed vote of confidence in President David Schmidly. The undergraduate student government tabled the vote after the students at the meeting made it loud and clear that ASUNM would not be speaking for the student body if it passed the resolution.
Staff Report New Mexico Indymedia, a local show that focuses on current affairs and community issues, will host a live, hour-long forum to discuss issues the UNM community faces. The show will air at 7 p.m. today on Community Cable Channel, which is channel 27 on Comcast.
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