Beat of her own drum
October 29Alma Rodriquez dances to Margarito Anaya's drumbeat during the close of Celebration of Our Culture and Heritage at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Saturday. The event was cosponsored by UNM Women's Resource Center.
Alma Rodriquez dances to Margarito Anaya's drumbeat during the close of Celebration of Our Culture and Heritage at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Saturday. The event was cosponsored by UNM Women's Resource Center.
UNM piano professor Pamela Pyle moved to Albuquerque from New York City three weeks before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and said she has felt helpless searching for a way to help the victims.
About 150 people gathered in Roosevelt Park Saturday morning and marched to Lockheed Martin and back to protest military action in Afghanistan.
The time has come to mention something that the American people really do not want to hear.
The UNM General Library and other campus groups are joining the United Blood Services to sponsor a fourth annual blood drive today and Tuesday on campus.
In response to the letter from Adam Collingsworth published in the Daily Lobo, I have to point out that I said the attacks on the Sept. 11 were the "most vile and cowardly attack one can imagine."
Improvement is all UNM head coach Matt Henry asked for from his cross-country athletes when they battled some of the best teams in the country at the Mountain West Conference Saturday - and he got just that.
After reading and hearing article after article both in Daily Lobo, on the Internet, radio and TV, I have come to one conclusion.
There is nothing quite as comical as members of the "peace movement" bemoaning the fact that no one seems to care that they are protesting.
UNM's hantavirus research has unprecedented support, earning recognition from the National Science Foundation and a five-year, $1.5 million renewal agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I am amazed at the display of fall colors and these cold winds from the north that cover everything with leaves. While nature changes before our eyes, we still believe that dropping bombs brings peace and freedom or at least fills our empty cups with pride.
A pack of Lobos will be on the prowl when the UNM men's and women's cross-country teams take a run at the Mountain West Conference Championships Saturday.
Three members of the UNM women's tennis team will be looking to represent the Lobos well when they participate in the International Tennis Association Omni Regionals this weekend.
My letter in the Oct. 24 Daily Lobo, "We need Native American history lesson," had a grave error in editing. My letter stated, "One and a half million or more native people were on the North American continent at the time of first European contact ." The published version reduced my figure considerably to "more than half a million ."
Much is at stake for the UNM women's soccer team as it enters its final homestand of the season this weekend.
The UNM football team has reached the halfway point of its season and finds itself struggling to come up with big plays that could turn a competitive football team into a good one.
Associate professor Suzanne Baackmann speaks about Germany's struggle for a cultural memory during a Cultural Studies Colloquium in University Art Museum Thursday. Colloquiums are held each week in the museum. Call 277-7312 for information.
Professor Enrique La Madrid delivers "Santiago and San Acacio: Legends of Slaughter & Deliverance in New Mexico," which is part of the Center for the Southwest Lecture series, in Mesa Vista Hall Thursday.
The UNM volleyball team looks to catch fire this weekend in its final home stint of the season. The Lobos will be playing some tough competition when they face 15th-ranked University of Utah and 14th-ranked Brigham Young University.
A UNM student is one of 51 men, representing each state and the District of Columbia, featured in the 2001 Stud Showcase in the November issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.