When Robert Lafarge was 12 years old, he was told he would be in a wheelchair for a long time, but that didn’t stop him from doing what he wanted.
The eighth-ranked UNM men’s golf team captured its second tournament title of the season, shattering several school records en route to victory at the John Burns Intercollegiate in Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday.
Senior Elena Rodriquez signs up to participate in Spring 2001 commencement ceremonies using a computer set up by the University Secretary's Office during a graduation fair in UNM Bookstore Monday.
Editor, The Albuquerque Tribune reported Thursday that The Sporting News ranked UNM 88th out of 115 schools playing Division-I sports. The magazine gave UNM an "F" for ethics based on the school's gender-equity policies, graduation rates and compliance with NCAA rules.
Editor, Brad Lord-Leutwyler's Feb. 22 column echoes a sentiment that many people, myself included, feel; namely, that heroism is misunderstood.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - What was George W. Bush's real motivation for attacking Iraq last week? Was he really concerned about the safety of allied planes patrolling the no-fly zone? Perhaps he was actually concerned with something more - to cast himself in a favorable light in the eyes of military supporters.
The String Cheese Incident rolls into Albuquerque tonight for a Fat Tuesday celebration, riding a tide of popularity that has Rolling Stone magazine projecting the band as a probable successor to The Grateful Dead and Phish as reigning kings of the jam band world.
Carman was hot stuff in the early '90s. The imaginative musician didn't even need a last name. He sold millions of albums and shattered Christian concert attendance records.
Joel Goldman knows first-hand that mixing alcohol and sex can be dangerous. Goldman, who found out that he was HIV positive in 1992, gave his presentation, "Sex Under the Influence,"
It was a little creepy how much Laurie Daniels Finnegan resembled and sounded like country music legend Patsy Cline. Her performance in "A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline" was a touching tribute to the singer's career.
SANTA FE - Thanks to a booming surplus, students who have been lobbying to expand funding for the state's lottery scholarship may soon get their wish. A group of 50 UNM students joined their peers statewide at the Roundhouse during Student Day at the Legislature Monday to lobby for support of using all state lottery revenue to back the Lottery to Success Scholarship.
Editor, In response to Kevin Cahill's Jan. 24 letter in the Daily Lobo about the backpack vacuum cleaners used by our custodial staff, the Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs would like to provide the following information.
UNM forward Wayland White tries to wrestle the ball away...
The UNM women’s tennis team won a 4-3 thriller over the University of Colorado Saturday night at the Lobo Tennis Club to continue its good play and finish the weekend 2-0.
SANTA FE — More than 400 people gathered at the Eldorado Hotel Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the UNM School of Medicine and honor former state Sen. Fabian Chavez, who was instrumental in establishing the school.
Laura Veytia, a Student Health Center physician assistant, checks 14-year-old Steven Juarez's blood pressure during Health Awareness Day at Thomas Bell Community Center Saturday.
Editor, Enrique Montoya’s Feb. 22 letter about the widening gap between the rich and poor show how indoctrinated we have become to see our country in only two different classes: One which unfairly has become rich and the other whose back the rich stepped on to get there.
Chris Berry performs an African dance with members of the African Dance II class in Maxwell Museum Saturday.
“We make war upon the state as the chief invader of person and property, as the cause of substantially all the crime and misery that exist, as itself the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals faster than it punishes them. It exists to create and sustain the privileges that produce economic and social chaos.”
This week’s New Mexico Daily Lobo Athletes of the Week are senior Miranda Sanchez of the UNM women’s basketball team and senior sprinter Larry Davis.
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