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President search in full gear

The UNM Board of Regents began official proceedings to choose the University's next president when it passed the Presidential Search Committee selections during its monthly meeting Tuesday. The committee is comprised of three regents, three faculty members, one dean, one undergraduate student and one graduate student, one staff member and one alumnus or community leader.

UNM earns award for minimizing pollution

The UNM Grounds and Landscape Department's innovative programs, which cut back on the use of dangerous chemicals on campus, has earned it the Pollution Prevention Award from Albuquerque's Wastewater Utility Division. The award is given annually to institutions that comply with city, state and federal guidelines of safety and innovative procedures for reducing harmful waste.

'Heels' a fine end to Vortex season

by Carilyn Rome Daily Lobo For those of you who felt a little woozy after leaving "Trainspotting," the Vortex Theatre's last production, "Spike Heels" might just be your Pepto Bismol. A quick-witted, well-acted and thoroughly funny play, "Spike Heels" touches on a lot of gender issues in a very real way - and not a toilet bowl in sight.

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COLUMN: MTV to tackle sex-ed

by Jane Eisner Knight Ridder-Tribune On Thursday evening, MTV will depart from its usual fare of grinding music videos and shrieking, bare-bellied teenagers to present a half-hour news special tackling the issue of sexual education in the schools.

'Porn 'n Chicken' stands legs and thighs above made-for-TV movies

College is supposed to be a time of learning, a time of exploration and, according to Hollywood a time with lots of indiscriminate sex. A group of Yale University students took that idea to a new level by starting the Porn 'n Chicken Club, a secret society that gathered once a week to watch pornography and eat Popeye's fried chicken.

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Socorro car crash results in UNM student's death

UNM senior Erron Todd, 21, died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002 from injuries she sustained when the vehicle she was riding in was hit by a N.M. State Police car in Socorro. Also killed in the crash was Jeremiah Wright, 22, a New Mexico Tech senior. The driver of the car, Christopher Michel, 22, also a student at Tech, survived the accident and was released from UNM Hospital Sept.

Officials angered by construction delays with SUB

Julie Weaks, UNM's vice president for business and finance, said that she is "at the end of her rope" with the Student Union Building construction and is seeking legal ways to compensate for its construction delays. "This is not acceptable and I want to take whatever action is possible," she said.

Jurassic 5's Numbers racket rates a rare hip-hop hurrah

Like a Singapore Sling in a smoky Las Vegas lounge, Jurassic 5's Power in Numbers, goes down easy. Seeing their names in the liner notes is like looking at a roster of superheroes on a crime-fighting team in a comic book. Emcees Chali 2na, Zaakir (Soup), Akil and Marc 7 and DJs Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark are recognizably vintage hip-hop all-stars.

Federal act could harm UNM

Attorney General John Ashcroft's USA PATRIOT Act and its possible negative affect on UNM and other college students were explored in a panel discussion that included students, School of Law faculty and representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico Monday.

COLUMN: Bush ignores critical questions

by John J. Schulz and Ehsan Ahrari Knight Ridder-Tribune BOSTON - As every graduate of the U.S. armed forces command and staff schools or the more advanced and selective war colleges knows: It is easy to get into wars, and darn hard to end them.

Net surfing Spam Haiku yields a plethora of poems, Spam-ku style

by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Shady Back alleys of the Internet found by entering Two or More Unrelated Words into Google. Entry: "Spam Haiku." If Al Gore really invented the Internet, one would be forced to assume that he is a sex-starved porn-addict and someone who entertains an unhealthy fixation on SPAM.

Ghoulish 'Dragon' has sturdy cast

"A robin redbreast in a cage/Puts all heaven in a rage." And thus starts the third chapter of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, which is actually the first chapter, which happens a little after the initial chapter that occurs just before the movie even takes place.

COLUMN: Birth not limited to hospitals

by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo columnist Pregnant? Thinking about having a baby in the near or distant future? Well, then I have some shocking - or not so shocking - news for you. You don't have to give birth in a hospital. Around these parts, home birth isn't so much of a foreign phenomenon.

Body found in dorm last week now identified

Staff Report Officials from the state Office of the Medical Investigator announced Monday that they have identified the body of a UNM student found in a Student Residence Center apartment. The body of Frank Baca, 47, a senior who studied sociology, was discovered by a University housing crew Friday.

LETTER: N.M. drivers regard turn signals optional

Editor, To respond to the editorial regarding driving habits in New Mexico. Yes, we have the worst drivers around. I often joke with my friends that car companies should make the "New Mexico" model of cars: All models shipped to New Mexico will not include turn signals since drivers don't use them.