The UNM volleyball team got some much needed life pumped back into it this weekend, ending a 10 game losing streak with the help of senior hitter Malena Thompson.
Professor Richard Berthold is an outstanding lecturer on the history of Greece and Rome. He is articulate, flamboyant, outspoken and very funny. His style is to provoke the interest of his students by peppering his classes with jokes and outrageous remarks.
The University of New Mexico has long subscribed to the principles of academic freedom. However, the controversy over the remarks allegedly made in class by UNM Professor Richard Berthold on Sept. 11 suggests that those principles are imperfectly understood in many quarters.
This week, I received a flyer from the UNM office of Counseling, Assistance and Referral Services in my campus mailbox. Printed on bright blue paper, it was titled "Make a Haven," and was basically a list of what it considered normal reactions to the "recent tragic events."
Joni Young, an associate professor at the Anderson Schools of Management, is one of three people organizing the national conference of the Academy of Accounting Historians in Santa Fe Nov. 15-17.
The UNM community will have to continue finding its way around barriers and orange barrels as the nearly constant process of updating campus facilities continues into the fall semester.
The UNM men's golf team won its second straight tournament of the season in convincing fashion Wednesday, routing the competition at the Adams Cup by seven strokes.
The UNM men's soccer team will get its first shot for a win at home this weekend after a tough start on the road.
Writing under a full moon, I feel the silent waters that have been violently disturbed. Occasionally there is a period in our lives when we wonder why so much energy is dedicated to warfare and its technologies and not enough put into wondering about this moon and how it effects each and everything.
Members of Omega Delta Phi fraternity will help build a Habitat for Humanity house Saturday, continuing the group's commitment to volunteering and community service.
The UNM volleyball team might be facing its most important game of the season when it plays the Air Force Academy at Johnson Arena tonight at 7 p.m.
The story lines are similar for the UNM football team and the University of Wyoming entering their match-up Saturday: both teams are struggling to find an identity on different sides of the football.
Recent events surrounding the comment made by professor Richard Berthold have inspired a witch trial straight out of the McCarthy era. Admittedly, what he said was insensitive, but his comment deserves to be heard.
The real question is, is Dr. Berthold being put to trial for his personality or for his ideas? Dubbing undesirable political behavior as mental aberration was a favorite of the late Soviet regime and many other such regimes. So, let's keep personalities out of the discussion and let's focus on ideas.
No. B. Coe holds up "Flights of Fancy: Mother Daughter Ritual" from her "Red Blanket Series" in the Women's Resource Center Wednesday while discussing her 54 years of painting and sculpting. Coe showed "Life Passions," a 10-minute video of her work.
We've been buried neck deep in controversy over Professor Berthold's recent comment. So he made a bad joke? So what?
Junior Paul Blodgett sells nachos and bottled water by the Duck Pond Wednesday to raise money to pledge for the Latino fraternity Lambda Theta Phi.
Silver linings, bursts of light, continually sought but infrequently found, bring hope and enlightenment to the heart when all is thought to be lost. Last Wednesday I found one, tucked quietly away amongst the fifth floor corridors of the Ambilatory Care Center at UNM Hospital.
As the latest successor to the prestigious post of Music Director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Guillermo Figueroa seems, like others who are seamlessly talented at their careers, perfect for the job.
The Southwest Film Center will present two films this weekend by Hamburg, Germany-based, experimental director and artist Peter Sempel - a renowned documenter of the musicians, artists, filmmakers and poets of the European punk scene.
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