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Experts focus on global warming

A conference featuring presentations by some UNM professors and focusing on local climate change and public perception of it will make its way to campus and the surrounding community this weekend, starting tonight. The second annual conference on global warming, "Heating Up: Coming to Terms with Climate Change in New Mexico," will run through Sunday and attempt to translate the scientific topic into public terms with a diversity of experts and activities.

LETTER: Starbucks already offers Fair Trade

Editor, As a student here at UNM and a partner of Starbucks Coffee Company, I was surprised about the assertions made in the Daily Lobo article about Fair Trade Coffee on Tuesday. This article contained blatantly incorrect information about Starbucks and its alliance with Fair Trade Coffee.

Penley focuses on development

Larry Penley, one of five finalists for the UNM presidential position, challenged students, faculty and staff Thursday to raise the University's national and international reputation by continuing to enrich the local and state communities. "UNM is an institution with an enormous future ahead of it," Penley said to a group of about 15 people in the Willard Reading Room.

LETTER: U.S. losing civil rights

Editor, The last few days have surely been proud ones for the Bush administration. It has secured victory in its fourth war since Sept. 11, 2001. Four wars? Yes, four wars that are all part of a master plan. Going backwards, we have the war with Iraq.

ASUNM Correction: Jared Thompson

Yesterday, the Daily Lobo ran a photo as part of an ongoing feature "SPIRITU on the Road" that was of a different band. This is the second Lobo photo error for this recurring column, the first occurring on March 12. For all the current installations of "SPIRITU on the road" and an accurate picture, go to www.

ASUNM: Pedro Arturo Ramos

Sophomore Pedro Arturo Ramos said he would make a good ASUNM senator because he is honest, open-minded and determined. "I am a man of my word," Ramos said. "Anyone who knows me knows that when I say I'll do something, it gets done." Ramos, a mechanical engineering major, is running with the Horizon slate.

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UNM track team heads south

by Todd Burns Daily Lobo UNM head track coach Matt Henry will face off against his brother - Pat Henry, head track coach at Louisiana State University, this weekend. The Lobo men's and women's track teams will travel to Baton Rouge, La. to face returning NCAA champions LSU on Saturday.

Softball hits good groove

Ashley Shartzer delivered a clutch two-run homer that sent the UNM softball team to a 4-2 victory over BYU at Lobo Field Thursday. After the Cougars tied the game 2-2 in the top of the fifth inning, freshman shortstop Ashley VanBoxmeer led off the bottom of the sixth with a base hit through the left side of the infield.

ASUNM: Duff Lill

Duff Lill, a junior majoring in finance, said he is running for ASUNM Senate because he has experienced the executive side of student government and wants to make a difference on the legislative. "I was executive lobbying director for ASUNM," Lill said.

Workshops aim to improve

by Erin Raterman Daily Lobo A series of UNM spring semester workshops designed to help teaching assistants become better educators is underway with its second installment beginning today. The workshops are organized by the Teaching Assistance Resource Center and funded through UNM's Department of Academic Affairs.

ASUNM: Natalie Montgomery

Sophomore Natalie Montgomery, who is running for ASUNM senator on the Horizon slate, said that if elected, she wants to use her position to unite all the undergraduate organizations on campus to better UNM. "In order for everyone here to see their goals to fruition, they need all the support they can get," Montgomery said.

ASUNM passes 2003-04 budget

The ASUNM Senate unanimously passed its budget for the 2003-04 fiscal year Wednesday with $310,404 out of $485,747 going back to funding for the Associated Students of UNM. The ASUNM student agencies — Community Experience, the Crafts Studio, the Elections Commission, the Homecoming Committee, the South West Film Center and Student Special Events — accounted for most of the $310,404.

COLUMN: Concealed weapons act harmful

According to a recent report, criminal inmate populations grew 11.1 percent last year in New Mexico. With national incarceration rates at an historical high, seeking to lower the number of felonious perpetrators entering into the prison system would seem to be the next logical step for our governing body to take.

LETTER: Minorities get special benefits

Editor, I am writing in response to Scott Darnell’s column in the April 4 Lobo. I agree with Darnell’s sentiment. I am part of a majority group — a heterosexual Anglo male, though I was born into the lower class. I knew that to ascend social class, I would have to do well in school and get a good education to get a good job.

Hillerman shares tips at colloquium

Renowned author Tony Hillerman said that students who wish to be writers should learn three simple rules. “Elmore Leonard once told me ‘Leave out the parts readers skip,” Hillerman said. “Another guy told me, the short way to spell writer’s block is l-a-z-y.

Handbook definitions offensive

The Hipster’s Handbook is a book full of magazine-style, smart-ass lists that can tell you whether or not you’re cool or, excuse me, “deck,” as one would say it if they were hip. Words like “hipster” used in a non-sarcastic setting make me cringe. “How-to” books have the same effect, unless they are about house building or furniture varnish.

LETTER: UNM needs to focus on American Indians

Editor, UNM faculty, staff and its students have no understanding of other races except their own kind. I guess that mentality comes from their parents’ upbringing and from society’s bleak outlook on Aboriginal cultures and the gritty nature of “the white man’s” oppression of “colored” peoples in America and around the world.

Rebar hip addition to area

by Jacque Oldfield Daily Lobo Beyond the metal mesh exterior of Rebar, the renovated Sprockets space across from UNM, is a civilized, industrial chic — metal, yes, but definitely not scrap metal. Last Friday night, Rebar was packed with locals, mostly students watching a basketball game and a happy hour broke out.

LETTER: Vision slate shoots for more student interaction

Editor, A man named Theodore Hesburgh once said, “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” We feel this could not be truer. On April 16, you will elect a president, vice president and 10 senators to your undergraduate student government (ASUNM).