by Jodi Hunley Daily Lobo The Fair Trade Initiative, a UNM group advocating better treatment of farmers, said at a meeting on Monday that Aramark would begin serving Fair Trade Coffee on campus as soon as shipments arrived. Fair Trade coffee will be served at Dane Smith Hall and the SUB tent, said Brandt Milstein, the group’s president.
Editor, I woke up last Thursday morning and the first thing I heard was the question, “Did you guys see ‘poon’ written everywhere?” I knew already that this was certainly a more interesting morning than usual. Last Thursday, as I rose to attend my classes, I saw something juvenile; a 16 foot-tall “POON” written on the Zimmerman Library building’s front brick.
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (AP) — With Baghdad under siege, President Bush and ally Tony Blair discussed plans Monday for finishing off Saddam Hussein’s government and resolving differences over postwar Iraq. “The hostilities phase is coming to a conclusion,” said Secretary of State Colin Powell, accompanying Bush aboard Air Force One to this British territory with its own decades-old history of violence.
An American bomber struck a residential complex in Baghdad on Monday after U.S. intelligence received information that Saddam Hussein, his sons and other top Iraqi leaders might be meeting there, U.S. officials said. There was no immediate word on who might have been killed,..
BASRA, Iraq (AP) — British forces took control of the heart of Basra on Monday, met by few pockets of resistance and greeted by hundreds of people who shook their hands and welcomed them to Iraq’s second-largest city. Royal Marine commandos seized a vacant, pink-hued marble palace belonging to President Saddam Hussein.
Applications for the 2003 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, a week of workshops for beginning and advanced writers to sharpen their skills, are being accepted until April 15. Since its first year in 1999, the conference, sponsored by the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, has played host to more than 120 writers at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center in Taos to participate in writing workshops, public readings, writers’ panels and related special events.
by Dan Chan Daily Texan (U. Texas-Austin) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas — Doesn’t everyone hate it when their younger sibling plays the sympathy card to get out of trouble? Or when someone exaggerates a colossal disaster in an attempt to fight for a minuscule cause? Aren’t people perplexed when the gardener ignores the weeds and goes after the tulip? Apparently not.
Saxophone-playing jazz force Kenny Garrett’s musical presence is so strong it’s hard to picture him being a sideman to anyone. Perhaps having the opportunity to be jazz legend Miles Davis’ sideman is what gave him the power and confidence to deliver some of the jazz world’s freshest sounds.
The overly constraining terms “male” and “female” no longer suffice to define gender —not within the world of drag, at least. Friday night’s drag performance, sponsored by Del Otro Lado, UNM’s Gay and Straight Alliance, smashed societal boundaries regarding gender definition and the common fallacy that, in the drag world, only men dress up as women.
Border patrol takes more than 1,000 pounds of pot ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 1,300 pounds of marijuana were seized by border patrol agents during five separate traffic stops over the weekend. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the largest bust included 703 pounds of marijuana that was hidden in a load of frozen food being transported by a tractor-trailer.
An internationally known photographer and filmmaker who has won several awards for his films about American-Indian identity and representation will be conducting workshops and speaking about his work beginning today and continuing through Thursday.
The UNM women's golf team held its own at the Ping/ASU Invitational in Tempe, Ariz., April 4-6, finishing sixth in a tournament that featured 12 of the top-30 teams in the nation. The 11th-ranked Lobos sat in fifth place after the first round with an 8-over-par 296, but struggled in tough, windy conditions on day two, posting a 17-over 305.
UNM golfers Kailin Downs and Michael Letzig are this week's New Mexico Daily Lobo Athletes of the Week. Downs finished fourth at the Ping/ASU Invitational with rounds of 71-76-69-216. The sophomore birdied five of the last 10 holes in the final round. Downs is the top-ranked sophomore in the country.
Graduate Professional Students Association presidential candidate Aaron Kugler, a second-year law student, says he would like to increase GPSA visibility on campus and make funding more accessible to graduate and professional students. "GPSA has been stuck in the basement of the old bookstore for over a year now," Kugler said.
by Jennifer Onuska ASUNM President and Amy Cook and Kevin Stevenson ASUNM Senators No tests, no new material and no assignments the week before finals. Wouldn't that be nice? Well, that's how it would be with ASUNM's proposed Prep Week.
Editor, I take the role of civil police seriously. However, in the past few years I have had a few run-ins with the police at parties, on the road, even at my house, that have really left my confidence in their role "to serve and protect" unsure at best.
Iraq British military battles toward center of Basra g NEAR BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Led by more than three dozen tanks and armored cars, British forces battled toward the center of Basra on Sunday in their biggest incursion yet into Iraq's second-largest city. British officials said they had managed to set up base at a former college inside Basra's city limits, but did not yet control the city of 1.
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