Senior Lorin Yannarell, left, talks with senior Scott Larrichio, a member of THC of UNM outside Zimmerman Library Thursday. The group was seeking support in its campaign to legalize marijuana.
It's interesting that the Daily Lobo columnist Craig E. Butler opened his recent column with the supposed intention of answering why the existence of NAFTA and the World Trade Organization causes street battles between activists and police. What makes this interesting is that Butler never makes even the slightest attempt to answer the question that he poses. To merely say that globalization's "approach" is "stepping on a lot of sensitive toes" is hardly an answer.
Five members of the New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team headed to Salt Lake City to provide medical care for the 2002 Winter Olympics. The team departed from Albuquerque on Thursday and will return Feb 25.
The Dean of Students Office is advising the campus community and campus visitors that Justice for All, Inc., an anti-abortion organization, will have a free-speech photographic exhibit that includes graphic photographs at three locations on the UNM campus. One Feb. 18 and 19, the exhibit will be north of Ortega Hall along the wooden fence. On Feb. 20 and 21, the exhibit will be east of Popejoy on Cornell Mall. The exhibit also will be at the Health Sciences Center Plaza on UNM's north campus Feb. 21.
While UNM maintains one of the most high profile and extensive Latin American and Iberian research collections in the world, staff members are working to make sure people on campus know it exists.
Most of us will never know what it is like to be the progeny of an icon. It could be either good or bad, perhaps resembling a type of euphoric pride or a festering inequality in regard to the parent.
UNM students questioned the government's role in the war on terrorism and the campaign's cost during a discussion sponsored by African American Student Services Wednesday.
It has been observed that America is a strange imperial power: one whose citizens care little and know even less about what goes on beyond their shores. This has created a dangerous situation in which the American people, as individuals typically generous and sensitive to the suffering of others, are easily led down unattractive paths by politicians who are far less generous and sensitive.
In one of their legendary songs, the Beastie Boys summed up what a fair portion of college life is all about: "You've got to fight, for your right, to party."
Well, UNM men's basketball team, you did it. I did not think it was possible, but you did it. You have successfully accomplished what no other team in the past 20 years has from my standpoint.
The Musical Theatre Southwest's production of the "All Night Strut" is, judging from the response of at least one audience member, positively soporific.
The ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee passed amendments that would more clearly define the penalty for illegally stuffing advertisements in a publication and clarify rules regarding conflicts of interest in court cases during its Wednesday meeting.
With funky beats, an acoustic guitar, drum machines and most any other instrument,
Young Albuquerque artists will get a taste of the professional art world as they showcase their work this weekend in an upcoming Artscrawl gallery tour.
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