Story by Amanda Crowe
As I waited in the lobby of the Gospel Rescue Mission, I noticed a woman with long white hair leaning up against a doorway looking outside with a smile. I met Virginia, 61, who is the women’s supervisor at the Mission. Like many other women I interviewed, Virginia wanted to protect her [...]
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story by Victoria Guadalupe Molinar
Growing up in El Paso with a father who worked in broadcasting, New Mexico State University student Jared Ortega was bitten by the filmmaking bug.
An introvert in high school, Ortega said that film enabled him to express who he was. During his high school years, he worked with other students with [...]
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Story by Carolyn Wright
About 5,400 patients visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on a yearly basis. New Mexico State University students are doing their part to help raise money for the hospital.
NMSU recently adopted the Up ‘til Dawn program, a letter-writing campaign to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. More than 600 students [...]
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Story by Heather Lang
In hopes of promoting body image and acceptance, a New Mexico State University student has founded the first and only burlesque dance group in Las Cruces.
Camille Shields, a women’s studies major who will graduate in May, said she decided to start the Desert Dolls after a life time of performing and feeling [...]
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Story by Chelsey Drummond
The students in New Mexico State University’s Advertising Federation know all about hard work.
The program was originally designed to introduce advertising students to the world of sales and promotion, but has accomplished so much more than that.
Led by journalism professor Hwiman Chung each year, the group is given quite a hefty task [...]
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Story by Ben Scheer
At the end of every season, New Mexico State University head tennis coach, Don Ball, faces a bittersweet circumstance: saying goodbye.
This year was no different.
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Story by Simone Del Rosario
The New Mexico State University Rodeo Team finishes the year first in the Grand Canyon Region after a second place finish at the Las Cruces spring rodeo.
Both the men and women’s team ended up on top in the region. The men’s team is currently sitting 14th in the nation, and the [...]
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Story by David Livingstone
With an ROTC program on campus, White Sands Missile Range nearby and Holloman Air Force base just across the state border, New Mexico State University has strong connections to the military.
For a week in April, students, staff , family and service men and women came together to honor and celebrate this tradition [...]
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Story by Sarah Campos
As I am walking through rows and rows of grapevines on a beautiful Saturday in April, I start getting butterflies in my stomach – it’s my first time going to a wine festival since I’ve turned 21, and I am excited that I finally get to enjoy this experience.
Waiting in line to [...]
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Story by Mindy Vasquez
New Mexico State University’s Dancers Unlimited electrified the crowd when it presented its 2010 spring show called Vertigo at the Rio Grande Theatre in downtown Las Cruces last month.
Vertigo, filled with a variety of different dance styles from hip hop to ballet, was entirely choreographed and performed by members of Dancers Unlimited, [...]
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