Friends and family say UNM student Jonathan Spradling was a thoughtful and caring person who helped homeless people and loved politics and literature.
The UNM volleyball team fell just shy of a victory over the University of Wyoming Saturday night at Johnson Arena, losing in a hard-fought five-game match.
The future seems pretty bleak judging by the news forecasts and government edicts of possible future attacks on our country. I am not worried as I think we have seen the worst. I believe that if Osama bin Laden and his band of lunatics had the capability to do anything close to what they did in New York City, they would have done it. In the last hundred years we have endured two world wars, the Vietnam War, the Korean "police action," the Great Depression, the Holocaust, race riots, political assassinations, religious intolerance (killing Matthew Shepard) bombing abortion clinics), Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin and others.
I will begin my letter by stating what other contributors to your publication have already stated. I am disgusted by the horrific acts of terrorism inflicted upon our great nation. Whoever is responsible for this horrendous crime against humanity must be punished and justice shall be served.
Dr. Charlotte Frisbee, author of "Tall Women: The life story of Rose Mitchell, a 102 year old Navajo Woman" takes time out Wednesday from a book signing in front of the Maxwell Museum to play catch with two-year-old Alexander Edaakie from Isleta Pueblo.
The forefathers were right. The truth of the matter is, the American populace is generally just incredibly stupid. We're simply not smart enough to choose our own president. And we're certainly not smart enough to have any say in what our country will do in response to terrorism.
The UNM football team made a spirited effort to almost pull out an upset victory over 17th-ranked Brigham Young University Saturday at University Stadium, but the Cougars made the big plays at the end to get the win 24-20.
Ryan Rice's letter calling for Richard Berthold's removal has illustrated a very frightening trend. Rice's words are terrifying in their narrow-mindedness, and are based on vilifying stereotypes.
Although the decision isn't entirely in his hands, UNM President Bill Gordon is still wrestling with either staying in a place he loves or accepting a high-profile job closer to home.
UNM Associate Professor Natasha Kolchevska recently won a $122,772 grant to develop an interdisciplinary program to explore Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin.
I have had a growing sense of disillusionment toward UNM. When I first came here I was preached to about being more than just a class-taker. It was recommended that I become part of the University community, a part of the school.
The lack of offensive firepower for the UNM men's soccer team is becoming costly as it lost to San Jose State University 1-0 Sunday at the UNM Soccer Complex.
Griffin amassed 15 kills, 65 set assists and 17 digs in two matches during the weekend. In a five game match loss versus the University of Wyoming on Saturday, Griffin scored her first career triple-double with 11 kills, 45 set assists and 15 digs.
The incredibly long lines, constant requests for identification, people with rubber gloves sifting through luggage and inquiries from the national guard form an unsettling combination that embody the American flying experience following last month's terrorist attacks.
Despite the UNM football team's heartbreaking loss to 17th-ranked Brigham Young University Saturday, it seemed head coach Rocky Long was not willing to discuss the notion that his team had earned a moral victory.
I condemn the Sept. 11 atrocity in New York and Washington, D.C.
I wish to point out some flaws in Craig Butler's logic in his October 10 column about pacifism.
Even in this most trying of times, when our nation is threatened by an enemy that will stop at nothing to harm the U.S., even to his dying breath, there is a vocal minority that crawls out of the woodwork to decry our entire way of life. This minority marches across college campuses with their peace signs in hand, insulting the American flag and preaching the virtues of nonviolence.
Modern, reader-friendly historical fiction appears on bookstore shelves rarely of late, and even scarcer still is the inspiring, insightful breed of modern, reader-friendly historical fiction.
UNM student Kamilla Lee Venner recently received a fellowship for her dissertation, which examines the relationship between Mission Indians and Anglo-American culture and how it relates to drinking patterns.
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