UNM administrators say they are hoping for the best and making contingency plans as the stalemate between legislators and Gov. Gary Johnson over next year's state budget continues.
City of Albuquerque employee Mike Bacca directs traffic around road work being done near Sara Reynolds Hall Wednesday.
As a half-breed, Mexican/White mix, I have a perplexing problem with regards to the "quota cookies" booth. Do I claim to be Mexican and buy my cookie for 25 cents or do I own up to my whiteness and pay $1.50 for the same cookie? Or, should I pay $1.75, because I am both a Mexican and white male? Or, should there be another price created for me since I belong to a different category than is listed on the price sheet?
Students and employers gather in Johnson Center during Career Expo 2002 Wednesday. The career fair also will run from 9-3 p.m. today.
Some Americans worry that too many non-European minorities are immigrating to the United States and that those immigrants are changing the fabric of the country. The reality is that American culture is so prominent that most of the world is adapting American characteristics, and that most "minorities" quickly assimilate.
Art often serves as the preferred vehicle for self-expression. Some want the flashy sports car type while others desire the sensible and long lasting Goodyear Blimp.
The ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee voted against joining the Faculty Senate in urging revision of the fall 2002 academic calendar that starts the semester a week earlier than usual, leaving one week of classes after Thanksgiving.
UNM is going to get slammed with poetry tonight. Performance poetry is set to make a riotous stop in Albuquerque when WordCore, a band of national slam poets, kicks off its spring college tour at UNM.
Nikka Costa doesn't consider herself a sex symbol. If you've seen any of Costa's videos, such as the sassy one for her tasty breakthrough single "Like a Feather" or her publicity photos - the one featuring the top of her derriere peaking above her low-rise jeans is an Internet favorite - you're probably thinking to yourself, "Yeah, right."
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, I passed the courtyard outside of Popejoy Hall after finishing an early morning class. To my horror, I was met with the most disturbing and grizzly images I have ever witnessed. I left in tears, with a brochure in hand, hoping that I could simply forget what I saw.
UNM student Kenneth Armijo says his cooperative work experience through the University's NASA Training Project may be the ticket to a great job after graduation.
While the UNM women's basketball team may not know how it will fare in its final two games of the season this weekend, it does know bumps and bruises are in the forecast.
I am one of the people that Michael Carrasco would castigate as a "bleeding-heart liberal." I am from Massachusetts, I enjoy working at soup kitchens and I give money to people that need it more than I do. I am always grateful that I have the opportunity to live in a country that allows its residents to say whatever they want without fear of repercussions.
The UNM College Republicans sold "quota cookies" Tuesday at an affirmative action bake sale outside Zimmerman Library, with prices varying according to ethnicity.
The relatively young UNM women's tennis team was overpowered 6-1 by Furman University Tuesday night at the Lobo Tennis Club.
Freshman Linsey Arndt, wearing goggles that simulate drunken vision, walks a line set up by Albuquerque police officers outside Popejoy Hall Tuesday. The line was part of an education program featuring The Blood Alcohol Educator truck of The Century Council.
Authorities were looking at possible charges against a man they believe supplied alcohol to a group of teen-age girls - one of whom later died.The results of toxicology tests on the body of Felisha Holguin, 14, were not finished Monday, said Tim Stepetic, a spokesman for the state Office of the Medical Investigator.The Rio Grande High School freshman was declared dead Saturday morning at St. Joseph Hospital after she attended a slumber party at the home of another girl's aunt.
The UNM General Library is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library: Facing Southwest: The Houses of John Gaw Meem. This exhibit features photographs by Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Ernest Knee, Robert Reck and architectural drawings by John Gaw Meem and George Pearl.
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