The beginning of the war in Iraq last March gave UNM's campus a politically charged atmosphere. Sidewalks and bulletin boards were covered with war messages, and protests near the bookstore were a frequent occurrence. Now, more than a year later, many UNM community members have friends, family, husbands and wives still fighting in Iraq.
It's easy for UNM's Bugman to say when he gets the most complaints about bugs on campus - it's right now. At the end of the spring semester, the bugs on campus start getting active, he said. They stay active through the summer, but with less people around, he said there's less concern.
Student organizations will have to pay for and set up tents themselves this year at Fiestas. In past years, Student Special Events provided tents for student organizations, but this year organizers decided to use those funds for more entertainment for the annual Fiestas, which will be held at Johnson Field on Saturday.
Marisa Demarco said she got bit by the journalism bug a couple of years ago, but people from The Opposition would say she got bitten long ago. Demarco was named 2004-2005 Daily Lobo editor in chief on April 16. She started The Opposition, an underground newspaper, 11 years ago in the seventh grade.
At UNM's Educator's Job Fair, students often walk away with a new job. UNM Career Services in conjunction with the College of Education will host its annual job fair in the SUB Ballroom on Thursday. The event is an opportunity for students to seek out prospective employers from across the country.
Students looking to extend their work study funds beyond what they were initially awarded this semester are out of luck. Kathleen O'Keefe, director of student financial aid, said all of the work study money has been awarded for the semester. Undergraduate students can receive up to $4,000 a year in work study money.
Weaving together humor and sarcasm, right-wing author Ann Coulter spoke to a packed Popejoy audience Tuesday night. "I've never had this friendly an audience," Coulter said after her stand-up comedy-style talk drew frequent applause. Coulter's talk addressed a range of recent events, including the U.
Cammy Woods Senior Music "It's graphic, but it's real life. It really makes you think about what the action of abortion is really doing. It's one thing to say 'I'm having an abortion.' It's another thing to say 'I'm willfully choosing to destroy something that has the ability to be a human life.
Francisco Apodaca says people in Northern New Mexico have been protecting their way of life long before anyone realized it. "We have been conservationists and quasi-environmentalists for many years," Apodaca said. "If we wouldn't have protected our way of life and conserved what we have, we would have been gone long ago.
Students passing by Zimmerman Library on Monday were greeted with a graphic 18-foot poster of an aborted fetus as part of a pro-life display sponsored by Justice for All. Alexandra von Ausdall, president of UNM's chapter of Justice for All, said the display was huge because the issue is huge.
UNM is the only university in the United States that owns the Hitachi S-5200 - the highest resolution scanning electron microscope available today. The $800,000 microscope was dedicated today in the Ferris Engineering Building. According to Hitachi's Web site, the microscope can see detail in an object as small as half a nanometer.
American-Indian performer Litefoot said he is disappointed rapper Andre 3000 and the Rev. Jesse Jackson did not attend this year's Gathering of Nations powwow at The Pit. Litefoot, a rapper and Hollywood actor, said Jackson agreed to make a guest appearance at the gathering.
Tuition is up, enrollment is up and now parking permits prices have gone up. Online parking permits go on sale today, and included is a 10 percent price increase. Students can expect to pay anywhere from $6 to $11 more than last year, and faculty and staff will see increases between $6 and $42.
UNM students publicized the dangers of smoking Friday with the first Kick Butts Day. UNM's Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention worked with the newly formed student organization, Expose, to plan the day's events. The goal of Expose is to let college students know that tobacco companies are targeting them, and to advise students not to fall prey to those messages, said Sarah Chaara, a UNM student who started the organization.
by Manuelita Beck Daily Lobo Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart says digital technology is the key to preserving indigenous music. "It allows us to preserve this music forever - to preserve it, distribute it and repatriate it back to the cultures it comes from," Hart said.
Albuquerque's Spring Crawl just keeps getting bigger every year - from the ticket prices and crowd attendance to the advent of national acts mixing with the local scene. Spring Crawl is a Downtown festival sponsored by the Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque's alternative arts newspaper.
Jessica Herrera Junior Fine Arts "I think that the parking at UNM is absurd. They just made a huge multi-million dollar parking lot. That could've gone into more funding for either the teachers, programs or activities, and I really don't know who's using that parking lot.
According to a study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity is on the verge of surpassing smoking as the nation's No. 1 preventable killer. Obesity as a result of a poor diet or a lack of physical activity was responsible for 400,000 deaths last year in the United States.
Staff Report Sign Fest, a visual arts performance featuring deaf performers, will be back at Popejoy Hall tonight at 8 p.m. Student from Sign 214, lexical semantics, have been responsible for every aspect of the show from publicity to production, Phyllis Wilcox, the course's instructor said in a University news release.
UNM uses an estimated 900,000 gallons of water every day. UNM gets water from the City of Albuquerque's aquifer using three private campus wells, its primary source being well No. 7. Jeffrey Zumwalt, UNM's associate director of utilities, said last month UNM drew more than 21 million gallons of water from well No.
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