Democratic candidate for governor Bill Richardson visited UNM campus Monday to greet students and get the word out to college voters that he was running for one of the state's highest offices. "I want to send students a message that higher education is part of my education agenda," Richardson said.
by Blackie Sherrod Knight Ridder-Tribune A news bulletin timidly edged into this concentration pattern, which was focused on the fourth race at Louisiana Downs. A faint voice from the periphery told about some college hacking into another college’s Web site, thereby learning some deep, dark secrets.
Staff Report Former UNM English professor Louis Owens died Thursday, July 27, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, said Albuquerque Sunport spokeswoman Maggie Santiago. Owens was found in his car at the Sunport parking lot with a pistol and a note asking that his wife be notified.
Entering his fifth year as head coach of the UNM football program, it appears that Rocky Long finally has things down. In person, Long gives the appearance of a man who is comfortable with himself and his surroundings. And how could he not be? After all, he is coaching his alma mater.
Making sure UNM recognizes underrepresented groups in legislative priorities and other projects was a heated topic for Regent Richard Toliver during the Board of Regents Finance and Facilities meeting Monday, Aug. 5. Toliver broached the subject twice during the meeting: first during the legislative request priorities for the 2002-03 fiscal year, and then again before a series of motions to select four architects for UNM building projects.
The UNM campus played host to a number of popular names in the film industry last week as filming began on campus of the Paramount Pictures psychological thriller "Suspect Zero." The movie will star Aaron Eckhart, from "Erin Brokovich," Sir Ben Kingsley, who received an Academy Award for his work in "Ghandi" and Carrie-Anne Moss, who played Trinity in "The Matrix.
For some college football programs, not having a solid starter at a position is seen as a sign of instability. Not so at UNM — particularly on defense. “Any position that has a lot of competition and has quality players, I don’t think that’s a problem spot at all,” head coach Rocky Long said recently.
Editor, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (1st Amendment to the Constitution). This is where separation of church and state is clearly addressed in the Constitution. If it is required that the pledge of allegiance be recited by certain groups in current form then it clearly violates “no law respecting the establishment of religion.
The UNM campus experienced its first-ever, police-involved homicide last week when a man in a wheelchair fired on UNM and Albuquerque police officers in the pay parking lot directly east of the UNM Bookstore. The assailant, 53-year-old Harris Frangos, was shot and killed by UNMPD and APD officers.
Editor, Thank you for reporting on UNM’s recent acquisition of a PET scanner and its unique ability to image metabolic patterns. Our Health Science Center’s current brochure highlighting research lists their Diabetes Center as funded the most. In light of this, it is hoped that they will look for interesting ways in which PET can be applied to diabetes, which is a metabolic disease.
Staff Report Former UNM English professor Louis Owens died Thursday, Aug. 27, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, said Albuquerque Sunport spokeswoman Maggie Santiago. Owens was found in his car at the Sunport parking lot with a pistol and a note asking that his wife be notified.
More parking spaces are on the way as a plan to purchase the former Bob Turner Ford lot was approved by the UNM Board of Regents Finance and Facilities Committee at its meeting Monday, Aug. 5. The plan to purchase the Sandia Foundation-owned property, at 1600 Lomas Blvd.
Yes, I am a woman. I also am a first-generation Hispanic-American. I also am an editor. In that order. My mother is part of a generation of women who stood in picket lines to advocate for equality for women. She grew up with the stigma of being not only a woman, but a Latina in 1960s New York City.
Representatives from UNM and Sandia National Laboratories gathered Wednesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Advanced Materials Laboratory, a center for collaborative research in technical developments. The laboratory offers an environment for UNM students and faculty to work with Sandia members, allowing accessible space and equipment for both institutions.
Dredg treads familiar and similarly fascinating ground with its second major-label release El Cielo. Following in the footsteps of the heavily lauded major-label debut of Leitmotif, Dredg continue upon the avant-garde concept album rock path. El Cielo yields such lines as “watch clouds peek over the tallest mountain tops, cuz they unveil honest opinions about the stars” from the album’s real opener “Same Ol’ Road”.
Editor, I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment at the full-page TD’s Showclub ad in the July 25 to Aug. 11 Daily Lobo. I really thought that as an institution of higher education, UNM would refuse to participate in this type of degradation and objectification of women.
The problem with reviewing local cinema is that you worry that Billy Garberina might hunt you down and kick your ass for giving him a bad review. Who is Billy Garberina? He is the writer, co-director, producer and star of the entirely locally made full-length feature: “Collecting Rooftops.
Ever felt a growing sense of dread from something as simple as watching a man stare into a darkened cornfield? If you see “Signs” — written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan — you might. Shyamalan, director of “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” follows a kind of Hitchcock-esque methodology in “Signs.
Editor, I am writing regarding the political cartoon in your July 25 edition of the Daily Lobo. This is on page 4, in your “Opinion” section. I am frankly disgusted and appalled at this cartoon, depicting two Middle Eastern men, one saying to the other “You ever wonder why Israelis strap their bombs to jets instead of people?” while the other man has a bomb strapped to his back.
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