Wearing a red dress brighter than a Lobo uniform and a smile as big as the team's win against San Diego State, she accepted the title of 2004 UNM Homecoming queen. In front of the fifth-largest crowd for a UNM football game, Elizabeth Schomburg and Carlos Guillen were crowned 2004 Homecoming queen and king Saturday.
Sometimes she does not want to be found. "It's nice not to worry," Karen Rand said. "I can go out and just be gone." Rand is not part of the growing population with a cell phone. She said it is too expensive and unnecessary, because she can just borrow one from a friend if she needs to.
In an effort to prevent a flu season as bad as last year's, UNM Hospital will use a grant to administer 35,000 free flu vaccinations to UNM students. The grant was a result of the UNMH Immunization Project, which tries to increase the immunization rate in New Mexico.
She cried uncontrollably. Her husband called it an awakening. Tryette Puentes, a UNM senior, said her trip to Ghana sponsored by African-American studies allowed her to experience the pain and anguish slaves felt. When she walked through slave castles, she felt sick to her stomach, Puentes said.
UNM was not one exchange student's first choice of universities. Rami Mallis, an exchange student from England, said he knew nothing about UNM - it was fifth on his list. Before he came, he knew little about the Southwest. After he was accepted to UNM, he researched the area.
University students are at high risk for transmittable diseases, according to the UNM Student Health Center. Five hundred and forty-eight students walked into the Student Health Center's Allergy and Immunization Clinic during the month of August and received an immunization, said Nikki Beneke, a registered nurse at the center.
Students who lost their lottery scholarship may find it's not so easy to get it back. More than $27 million was awarded to Lottery Success Scholarships recipients in 2004, said Jim Perry, director of finance for New Mexico Commission on Higher Education.
After gaining the dreaded freshman 15, fad diets often promise students a quick and easy way to lose unwanted poundage, but they can also harm a student's physical and mental well-being. Diet pills, the grapefruit, raw-food, meat-only, daily starvation, green tea and fruit juice diets are all methods used to quickly rid the body of excess weight.
Women in Guatemala have seen civil war destroy not only their lives and society, but also their culture and language, a UNM associate professor says. But Melissa Axelrod is researching ways to preserve Guatemalan language and culture and help the women who have suffered through 36 years of war.
The road to becoming a doctor is a lengthy one, requiring at least seven years of graduate level education and countless study hours. Jerome Cordova, president of UNM's Premedical Organization, said the application process is only one of the difficult steps a student aspiring for a career in medicine must take.
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