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.
Audrey Winkless-Hall lies and watches Steve Marinelli, right, and Kerry Winkless-Hall unpack a Japanese fighting kite on Johnson Field Sunday. Gusty winds, which make kite flying difficult, made the group later decide to pack up and leave.
The Colorado State Rams used a crucial five-run fourth inning to beat the UNM softball team 6-3 in the second game of a doubleheader at Lobo Field Saturday. With UNM leading 1-0, CSU got a leadoff single by Jennifer Mahoney over Lobo shortstop Ashley VanBoxmeer's head to start the fourth.
Staff Report Scott Tyo, a UNM electrical engineering assistant professor, has received a five-year grant worth $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue his research in the field of polarized light. Tyo will receive the money as a result of his winning a Faculty Early Career Development Award, also known as the CAREER Award, from the foundation.
Editor, What is on your Horizon? That is the question that we are posing to the student body. On April 16, you will have the opportunity to elect your new undergraduate student government leaders in the ASUNM election. We want to educate you and convince you that your vote will not be wasted on our slate, Horizon.
Staff Report Seven UNM graduate programs within the college of fine arts and the schools of medicine and law have been ranked among the best in the nation this year by the U.S. News & World Report. The weekly news magazine, which according to its Web site began its annual ranking of more than 1,400 accredited colleges and universities nationwide in 1983, provides the service to aid its readers in researching how their particular school's academic program compares with those of its peers, or schools with broadly similar missions.
Voting for the Graduate and Professional Student Association president begins Monday, April 7. Graduate and professional students can vote through Thursday by phone 24 hours a day on ITEL. Ballots can also be cast at the following locations on campus: GPSA office, Monday-Thursday, 10 a.
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.
A former UNM History Department chairman who died in 2000 will be honored today when the University presents his widow and the department with a book of essays commemorating his studies, writings and works. Gerald Nash worked at UNM for more than 30 years and is considered by many of his former colleagues to be a leading scholar in the field of the American West.
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.
If elected president of GPSA, first-year law student James Meiers says he will help the Board of Regents and the New Mexico State Legislature to better understand the needs of graduate and professional students at UNM. In the last month and a half, Meiers has made a concerted effort to contact the regents and express his ideas for the Graduate and Professional Students Association's future, he said.
Editor, I thought that the Daily Lobo was an "independent student newspaper." I have noticed that you seem to print a large number of non-student letters. Why is that? Is it that the letters sent to you by students don't line up with your ideological position and as such are not worth printing? Or is it that the students have just given up on the Daily Liberal and don't write letters? I find the Opinion section of the Daily Liberal to be a real let down.
by Jeff Proctor Daily Lobo High winds, firm, fast greens and a monster 18th hole played crucial roles at the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson Ariz., where the UNM men's golf team ended its two-tournament slump with a hard-fought, second-place finish March 30 through April 1.
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.
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