Poetically speaking
November 2Poet Aaron Abeyta reads "Cuando Se Secan las Acequias" from his book "Colcha" at Maxwell Museum Thursday night.
Poet Aaron Abeyta reads "Cuando Se Secan las Acequias" from his book "Colcha" at Maxwell Museum Thursday night.
Generals, it is said, are always fighting the last war. Facing a war that is neither World War II nor Vietnam, against an enemy neither Nazi nor Communist, Washington has sometimes sounded blustery and lost since Sept. 11.
The UNM men's golf team came up short of winning its third tournament this season, finishing third at the Baylor Invitational during the week.
The UNM men's soccer team plays at its home field for the last time this season against the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Sunday afternoon.
We are a wealthy nation. Mayors of large cities can afford to turn down $10 million gifts. Perhaps it is time we use our wealth and technological expertise to end poverty and begin a program of universal education.
The UNM football team has little time to bask in its 52-33 trouncing of the Air Force Academy last week with this weekend's pivotal game at San Diego State University looming.
The UNM women's golf team ended its fall season in impressive fashion, winning its second tournament of the season, the Wahine Rainbow Fall Golf Classic, during the week.
We live every day in this society, whether we like what is going on or not.
The India Students Association will hold a two-day Indian Classical Music Concert, including a demonstration and lecture Saturday and Sunday.
Singer/songwriter Shannon Gibson says she has come to understand more than ever that each coin has two sides and all things in life usually have both a positive and negative impact.
Comedian Margaret Cho says her goal when she takes the stage at Popejoy Hall Friday is to make people both laugh and walk away looking at life in a different way.
Fans attending the UNM women's basketball game versus the Houston Flight Wednesday at The Pit got to see something that most fans will probably never see again - star center Jordan Adams coming off the bench.
The Southwest Film Center will present five films from Argentina this weekend during an Argentine Film Festival sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Institute, SOLAS and the Media Arts Department.
Junior Emily Slattery speaks in the Popejoy hall lobby Wednesday as Chris Reisz, top right, installs a large panel on a piece titled, "Tree of Life Revisisted."
Instructors knew 18-year-old Kevin Johns as a bright, friendly, intelligent student, who had potential to do great things.
So much has happened since I last wrote a column back in April. There's so much to write about and say, but I've decided to write about the dead. Don't consider this a morbid column. After all it is appropriate to write of the dead given the lives lost in the past few weeks, plus it's the season for D°a de los Muertos, a celebration observed by Mexican-Americans and others in Latin America.
So, what do you think would make the American public happier? The capture and assassination of Osama bin Laden? Or the death by anthrax of every member of the American media?
Former television movie star turned environmentalist Dennis Weaver and a group of hybrid car enthusiasts stopped by UNM during a tour of the Southwest to promote alternatives to oil Wednesday.
Senior Melissa Bell scoops spaghetti out of "Hannibal" the pumpkin as senior Shirley Liu, middle, and graduate student Lori Ebert react during a pumpkin carving contest in Smith Plaza Wednesday. "Hannibal" won the people's choice award and second in a department.