We may be in dark times on Earth, but astronomy students are finding you can't escape just by looking up. The Daily Lobo checked in with professor Dinesh Loomba to find out more about the physics and astronomy department's research on the subject. Daily Lobo: When did you start researching dark matter? Dinesh Loomba: I came to UNM about seven years ago.
UNM has been working with high schools and community colleges to offer students a seamless transition into the University, but there may be complications with the plan. Applicants to the University who don't meet admission requirements will no longer be rejected, if the proposed requirements are put in place.
The 11-6-2 UNM men's soccer team failed to live up to its past glory, finishing the season with its worst record since 2003. "You always look at yourself first," head coach Jeremy Fishbein said. "I wish I would have done some things different." Entering the season, the Lobos were ranked No.
Several presidential advisers, including GPSA president Christopher Ramirez, have expressed reservations to the Board of Regents about the plan to raise admissions requirements. Ramirez said he knows students who transferred to Main Campus from CNM and UNM branches only to find out that their credits wouldn't be accepted.
Editor, In defense of Don Schrader, embarrassment is also an expression of pity. It is embarrassing to see someone totally unaware of his public self-indictment. Andres Saenz's diatribe against Schrader is filled with clandestine homophobia and all sorts of latent racism directed against a hapless individual whose only offense is to point out the offensive hypocrisies that govern and corrupt this country.
UNM's on-campus housing policies prohibit sleepovers between students of the opposite sex, but the rules may fail to address same-sex relationships. The "sleepover policy," which RAs are charged with enforcing, states that a person of the opposite sex cannot spend the night in a student's dorm room, but a person of the same sex can sleep over for up to three days as long as he or she checks in with the front desk.
Editor, I didn't want to get absorbed into the intense abortion debate, but I believe Betty Blackburn and Kysten Diener made some serious ethical flaws in their abortion-rights arguments. Blackburn claims no man has the right to tell women what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.
Daily Lobo: Can you describe what it feels like standing in front of that huge wall of sound during halftime? Chad Simons: It's a lot of fun. It's loud, and it can be really exciting. It has the potential to really create a huge reaction from the people who are watching, and that's what we strive to do.
Editor, I applied for a prestigious, unpaid biology internship in San Diego. It is a 40-hour-a-week, 16-week commitment, including lectures, research and field trips. I thought it reasonable to get a jump on the process with the Biology Department to ensure I would get credit for it.
Editor, In their respective letters to the editor, Betty Blackburn and Kysten Diener tell us how society is better because we have unfettered abortion, offering arguments that ignore the fundamental issue: Abortion kills a baby. The straw-man arguments are the slogans and mantras that ignore this basic truth.
Editor, The Second Amendment says, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Presently, the right to bear arms is being threatened by Barack Obama. A firearm is a tool.
UNM's Resident Advisors are charged with keeping students who live in the dorms in order and improving the quality of life on campus. RAs spend about 20 hours per week managing 40 to 100 students, according to the Resident Life Web site. They are also required to attend weekly staff meetings, take no classes on Thursday evenings and take on no other jobs.
Artists are decorating and enhancing toilet seats for the Wooden Cow Gallery's art show "Art de Toilette." Elaine Russell, member of the Wooden Cow cooperative, organized the show, which will be displayed in the gallery's bathroom. Artists pay a $20 entry fee, which also pays for the wooden toilet seat.
A condenser mic is enough to amplify Shara Worden's wineglass arrangements onstage. Worden, magical-realism composer/arranger of the band My Brightest Diamond, will bring her string-based music to the Cooperage on Sunday. "I do all the arranging, and I tell everybody what to do," she said.
All the Windex in the world couldn't keep the UNM men's basketball team from streaking to an 85-74 victory over Cal State Northridge on Monday at The Pit. In a game that was more lopsided than the final score suggests, UNM made sure to close out this game after it choked away a nine-point lead with 3:38 left in Saturday's depressing 72-71 defeat at the hands of UCF.
Editor, It was really disappointing to read the article about Joy Harjo leaving the Creative Writing program at UNM because of one individual's behavior. Harjo said this person's behavior is problematic to the extent that the department "has been deeply compromised," and the best instructors are leaving or are in the process of leaving.
Departments and offices across campus will have to give up a total of $1 million for the University's emergency savings fund. The University will add the money to the $5.3 million in the central reserve fund, said Andrew Cullen, associate vice president for institutional planning.
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