The doors Wednesday to its cleanroom, a computer chip manufacturing facility, to media representatives, University personnel and guests. The presentation aimed to show off and help promote UNM's cleanroom, a multi-million dollar semiconductor facility, at the Manufacturing Training and Technology Center.
he Daily Lobo sat down with core members of the local band Spiritu, lead singer Jadd Schickler, bassist John Bess and guitarist Chav, Tuesday to discuss its self-titled debut CD, as well as the band's past, present and future. Unfortunately, Kenny Heiner, the band's drummer, was unavailable as he was out making the world a safer place for us all by installing home alarm systems.
A new group has popped up in Albuquerque and it wants smoking banned from all restaurants and bars. OK, yes, smoking is terrible for one's health and second-hand smoke is worse. Everyone has heard the statistics on lung cancer, throat cancer, etc., etc.
Editor, So-called oxygen bars often tout health benefits of providing additional, and even " 100 percent pure-grade medical oxygen" to the body to help body and mind by cleaning the system of toxins, increasing energy and stamina, and reducing stress. While one cannot argue with the power of suggestion and the subjective benefits of things that can make you feel better, there is no evidence that healthy people can benefit from inhaling oxygen other than the 21 percent of oxygen found in the air we breathe.
An acclaimed group of performers will combine their artistic efforts to combat sexual violence on the Highland Theatre stage tonight. The First Annual Sisters Against Violence Initiative, organized with the help of the Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center and SolArts, will open their curtain for one night only, this evening, at 7 p.
by Pei Fen Loo U-Wire A running video camera and the thought of millions of Americans watching could easily unnerve anyone on a first date. Yet, the telegenic singles featured on the slew of reality dating shows seem totally at ease trading torrid kisses with their dates, flashing their objects of affection, stripping down to nothingness in hot tubs and oh, someone give me a count on those endless body shots already.
The ASUNM Senate appointed chairs to four special committees and approved five presidential appointments in its opening session of the fall semester Wednesday. The ad hoc committees that were formed during an Associated Students of UNM team-building retreat Aug.
The Czars could be considered an indie band from Denver. The group is still hovering underneath the mainstream radar, playing for the college crowd and other like-minded spirits of the music scene. They also could be considered one of the Radiohead-esque bands that critics love to tell us about.
Hulking and glacial, the riffs that move Spiritu's self-titled debut CD loom behind jagged vocals in typical "stoner-rock" fashion. The album opens with a long, distorted note that suspends and gradually lands as a warm-sounding, circular riff, bits of rhythm gathering gradually underneath.
by Wayne Ma U-Wire We are all in college to get educated, yet many of us tend to forget that. Some of you believe that college is a means to an end. It's all about getting a piece of paper certifying that you're qualified to earn big bucks. Some of you are here because it's just the natural order of things.
So many times in our lives we ask ourselves that universal question - is that all there is? Heck, there was even a song made about it. Still, there is a big contrast between what we experience in our everyday lives and what we see in the movies. Real life rarely comes up with definitive conclusions.
If you're a football fan, you know college football doesn't have a preseason. But if you're a UNM fan, applying the idea of a preseason to this season ain't a bad one.
It scares the hell out of me that we have an administration in charge of our country that can't contain its excitement about going to war. Our leaders' reasoning seems questionable, hypocritical and deceitful at best.
It might not surprise you that Peter Dorato recently won a sanctioned, regional tennis tournament. What might surprise you, however, is that Dorato is more than 70 years old.
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