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Awards handed out to Lobos

by Rick Bustos Daily Lobo Ruben Douglas received team MVP honors at a banquet for the men's basketball team Tuesday night at the Marriott Pyramid. Douglas led the team and the nation in scoring this year. He also averaged 35 minutes and six rebounds a game.

UNM's occupational therapy courses rank

April is national occupational therapy month and UNM is doing its part to provide the best occupational therapists possible. UNM's Occupational Therapy Graduate Program, offered through the School of Medicine, is an accredited program that began three years ago, said Terry Crowe, the founding director of the program and a medical professor.

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Local Gulf War Syndrome study team asks for more funds ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Albuquerque medical researchers are asking the U.S. Army to continue funding their investigation of Gulf War Syndrome. The team from Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute has already published the results of its first four-year study of the long term effects of low-level exposure to sarin gas.

Java Joe’s exhibits graffiti

by Mar°a B. Del R°o Daily Lobo Java Joe’s in downtown Albuquerque opened its doors to art fans Saturday, March 29. Lindsey Mound, Ben Cressey and Derrick Montes, a TVI student who presents graffiti-style art, are being showcased. Graffiti art is an underground culture all its own.

Program toughens laws against graffiti

Vandals looking to express themselves by coating graffiti on UNM property should expect to suffer stern consequences if they are caught and convicted, said Randy Boeglin, UNM’s dean of students. “It’s illegal, plain and simple,” Boeglin said. “It has no aesthetic value and anyone who considers pursuing such an activity on campus is taking an incredible risk with their academic future here at UNM.

Funk Brothers essence of Motown hits

The Motown sound is legendary, turning out artists like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and The Temptations to name a few. “Standing in the Shadows of Motown,” tells the story of the Funk Brothers, a band that never achieved fame or fortune, but played on more hit tracks than the Beach Boys, Elvis, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined.

Evanescence explores hard love

While the word Evanescence may signify a disappearance, this band is firmly planted in its music. The best way to describe Fallen, the second full-length CD release from the Arkansas quartet Evanescence, would be haunting, melodious and very gothic. Vocalist Amy Lee brings her unique voice to a band that may otherwise be grouped in the nondescript New Metal/Goth genre.

Former professor dies in Argentina

Dinko Cvitanovic, a former UNM professor of Spanish who taught from 1973-1980, died Feb.19 from a heart attack at age 64 in Bah°a Blanca, Argentina. He is survived by his wife, Nilsa, and his son, Gast¢n Mauricio. Born in Croatia, Cvitanovic and his family immigrated to Argentina when he was very young.

UNM assistant professor receives governor’s award

Staff Report A research assistant professor in the Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at UNM has been selected as one of 20 women to receive the 2003 Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women. Deborah Ulinski Potter, who works full time for the federal government and holds faculty appointments at UNM, is someone that women aspiring to achieve greatness in their lives can look up to, according to Adelaide Collins, president of New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering, who nominated Potter for the award.

Dorm Life

by Rafael Gallegos Daily Lobo The Vortex Theatre has taken a chance on a local playwright. UNM graduate student Jason Witter’s “Smith Hall” will run for most of April as part of the Vortex’s 2003 season. Set in a dorm of a public college — think UNM’s Coronado — “Smith Hall” is the theatrical equivalent of movies like “Animal House” and “American Pie.

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Greek leaders travel to leadership council

Members of the UNM Inter-Fraternity and Panhellenic Councils will look to pick up new ideas for recruiting, programming and increasing diversity at the Western Regional Greek Leadership Conference April 4-5. UNM will send a delegation made up of executive members from both councils, led by presidents Josh Parsons and Jennifer French, to the weekend conference in Burlingame, Calif.

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Highjackers threaten to kill ferry passengers HAVANA (AP) — Armed hijackers seized a ferry off Cuba’s coast Wednesday and threatened to toss passengers overboard if they cannot go to the United States, setting off a negotiating drama on the high seas. The FBI said the ferry was drifting in international waters about 60 miles off Key West and was sending hostage negotiators to the scene by helicopter to rendezvous with a U.

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Graduate student artists display talent at gallery

UNM’s Jonson Gallery is host to art from 20 graduate art students in this year’s annual Juried Graduate Student Exhibition. The show, which had its opening reception March 28 and runs through May 9, is one of the most diverse shows in the gallery’s nine-year history, according to Curator Chip Ware.

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COLUMN: White Sands glorifies first bomb detonation

Attention all lovers of mass destruction! In celebration of America's awesome power to blow things to smithereens with little to no remorse, the White Sands Missile Range will open the pearly gates of Ground Zero to the public on Saturday, April 5 from 8 a.

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