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Student awarded with high position in architecture
Amanda Jackson | January 30UNM architecture student Robert Williams was elected to the board of directors for the American Institute of Architecture Students Jan. 2. Williams, a third-year architecture student who serves as president of the UNM chapter, will represent all of the Western colleges in the United States to the national board on which five other students from other regions sit.
COLUMN: Ending legal abortion won't solve problems
January 30by Ayrel Clark Iowa State Daily (Iowa State U.) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- Is this the face of the enemy? This is a question posed on a flier to all those meandering around Room 2050 in Agronomy Hall. This is a rather interesting inquiry. Who is my enemy? Is the enemy of my friend my enemy? Does that make the friend of my enemy also my enemy? Are you confused yet? I certainly am.
LETTER: Affirmative action in need of revision
January 30Editor, Affirmative action is in the news once again. Conservatives are everywhere in the media telling us how affirmative action is bad for the United States. And, the conservative spins are quite problematic. Let's take at two of the more common ones.
Accessibility for handicap in question
Amanda Jackson | January 29UNM student Paul Smith doesn't have things easy when it comes to getting around campus. In the place he used to park near his class in the Center for the Arts sits a big hole in the ground where UNM is building the Cornell parking structure.
Multilingual classes expand cultural insight
Eric Howerton | January 29Two UNM linguistics professors, both Fulbright Scholars, are offering courses this semester that emphasize the importance of multilingualism as an instrument to understanding foreign people and cultures. Visiting Lecturer Zouhair Maalej, a Tunisian native, has previously lectured at a British university and is working on a book titled, "The Contemporary Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Arabic Data.
Professor honored by award
Jeff Proctor | January 29UNM Law Professor James Ellis has been named the 2002 "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal, an award he admits he never would have received without help from a tireless group of students and colleagues. Ellis received the award for successfully arguing before the U.
Senate aims to focus on faculty, staff salary raises
Arthur Simoni | January 29UNM President Chris Garcia said during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday that he has met with Gov. Bill Richardson recently and will support a two percent increase in staff compensation. "There seems to be at least a hopeful spirit that with the new administration will come better things for the state of New Mexico and for higher education in particular," Garcia said.
LETTER: Students face growing tuition
January 29by Amalea Smirniotopoulos Washington Square News (New York U.) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- Last Thursday, Great Britain's Labor government announced plans to change the way the nation's higher education system is financed, proposing that universities be allowed to charge students higher tuition fees and allowing them to defer payment until graduation.
LETTER: Oil not worth the price of blood, life
January 29Editor, Todd J. Burns' letter on Tuesday asks that we support our soldiers, whether we agree with invading Iraq or not, and that we help them come home to their families and friends. No one has anything against the soldiers. The fastest way for them to be with their families is not to go.
COLUMN: Athletes not exploited
January 29by Andy Fahey Mustang Daily (California Poly State U.) (U-WIRE) SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- As the movie "Blue Chips" clearly pointed out, it's no secret that some college athletes get paid to play. The practice of showering NCAA athletes with gifts, whether in the form of currency, cars or other commodities, is obviously wrong.
COLUMN: War redefines music world
Dustin Habermann | January 29by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Music has a transformative power and its might cannot be understated. Every country in the world has a national anthem and every movement has had it's soundtrack. From "El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido" in Chile, to the bulk of Woody Gutherie's and Pete Seger's work and the re-contextualized hymn of "We Shall Overcome" in the civil rights movement of the '60s, music and song help define movements.
Passing the hours with Virginia Woolf
Angela Williams | January 29Virginia Woolf has never been quite so mysterious. At least, not since her death in 1941. But with the advent of Michael Cunningham's ferocious, candid novel "The Hours," and its equally provocative movie version, Woolf has been all the rage again. In his novel, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Cunningham delves into one of the 20th century's greatest novelists and the mother of the modernists through not only Woolf's story, but also by interweaving a more current theme with two additional characters.
The Belles' new album Omert† opium to fans
Eric Howerton | January 29In the domineering face of the maniacal sciences and robo-pleasure, musicians like The Belles remain unfazed. Music has always been renowned for its powers to affect the listener, and now a Baltimore-based company is taking this characteristic of music to the extreme.