Lobos call season a success
Ron Gonzales | December 10Measuring the success of the UNM football team this year by its win-loss record only begins to tell the story.
Measuring the success of the UNM football team this year by its win-loss record only begins to tell the story.
With mechanized carnival attractions, curtained rooms that reveal grotesque surprises and a blatant feminist undertone, The Sideshow of the Absurd is as different from your average traveling art show as cubism is from the Baroque.
UNM is offering its answer to constructive activities for children of working parents who have nowhere to send them during Winter Break.
How many times in the last several weeks have you heard or read sentences that begin, "If we've learned nothing else since Sept. 11, we've learned ...?"
At the Daily Lobo, we have many of our own unsung heroes - about 100 of them - who put in endless, thankless hours to produce this publication for UNM community. It would be impossible to name them all, but everyone on the advertising, classifieds, accounting, newsroom, copy editing, production, Web and delivery staff deserve all the thanks in the world for their hard work this year.
Sophomore forward Melissa Forest of the UNM women's basketball team and junior guard Marlon Parmer of the men's basketball team are the New Mexico Daily Lobo Athletes of the Week.
The ASUNM Student Court upheld the fines and sanctions levied on the Connection slate after the Nov. 14 student government election, according to a ruling issued Friday.
With more than 70 programs from all over the world, encompassing many genres, the second annual Santa Fe Film Festival outdid itself this year.
Recently Moonshine records released goldie.co.uk, a compilation of rising Drum and Bass composers thrown on wax and let spin by Goldie, the D&B guru himself.
After fighting through final exams, Chris Linson Jr. will be fighting in the boxing ring for the first time in over a year on Friday.
It might have been nice to be able to speak dispassionately about the state of civil rights after Sept. 11, to theorize about the possible side effects of hastily-passed anti-terrorist acts and the burgeoning police state as if these matters have no direct effect on me, to comment disinterestedly on the over 1,000 immigrants being held indefinitely without trial.
The UNM women's basketball team ended a two-game losing streak Saturday afternoon, putting the defensive clamps down to defeat the University of Texas at San Antonio 55-38 on the road.
Critical consciousness - to think globally and act locally - is the incense that burns inside the shelters of hope. We smell this incense when we call upon our government and ourselves to act in a way that respects this earth that can, as Gandhi put it, "provide for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed.
Ancient Aliens members Oliver "Kauz" Meyer, Nick "Spaceman Spliff" Meyers and Ben "So-and-So the Articulate" Korce, flow on stage at Sprockets Saturday during a six-group hip-hop performance.
Sophomore forward Melissa Forest of the UNM women's basketball team and junior guard Marlon Parmer of the men's basketball team are the New Mexico Daily Lobo Athletes of the Week.
Most athletes wouldn't be satisfied with getting limited minutes in a game, but for UNM women's basketball player Brittany Wolfgang, just being able to play again would be satisfying.
The New Mexico Daily Lobo is now on Winter Break and will begin regular publication again on Jan. 7. Students will be updating the Web site at least twice weekly with information relevant to the UNM community. Thank you for visiting www.dailylobo.com and happy holidays.
The fall term may be over, but the UNM men's basketball team took New Mexico State University to school Sunday in The Pit, breaking open a one-point halftime lead into a 70-49 blowout win.
It may be too much to ask that there be peace on earth this Christmas. After all, peace is bad for the economy and your paycheck is dependent on the military industrial complex. The United States, the bastion of consumerist Christmas, is the world's leading trader of arms, and without constant war, our holidays would be less spectacular. Your sleigh, so filled with goodies headed toward Israel and Colombia and Taiwan, is using U.S. tax dollars to make arms manufacturers rich.
Well, the holidays are almost upon us, and as I face an entire month of potential unemployment, it behooves me to find some form of entertainment that my indigent comrades and I can charge on a credit card. That said, this year's bumper crop of big-budget Hollywood movies looks like it might have something for everyone - from period pieces to crime thrillers; cheesy family tearjerkers to gritty boxing films.