Precisely the reason, along with the incidents at Virginia Tech and University of Alabama, that the New Mexico legislature should amend the state’s firearm statutes to permit duly licensed citizens to carry concealed weapons on the university campus.

Amending the fire-arm laws would have no bearing on this incident. First of all it was a knife not a gun. Second, people willing to kill others over cell-phones don’t concern themselves with weapon laws. One thing that came to light tonight is that emergency phones are few and far between on campus. Students searched for a blue phone and found nothing. If it wasn’t for the quick 911 calls from the students who knows what might have taken place. UNMPD seemed relatively nonchalant about creating a crime-scene and getting statements. They didn’t lock the building down and let students wander all over the crime-scene. They had a description of the suspect within minutes of the incident and seemed to send nobody to look for the suspect. Myself and a few other men from the class didn’t think twice about running out and looking for the suspect when the injured woman entered the class. Armed police officers didn’t find it as urgent. One officer was inquiring as to where a bathroom was, as if his bladder concerned him more than the woman on the ground bleeding from her throat. Within five seconds the students had there shirts off applying pressure to the woman’s wounds. Not one officer relieved the students from attending to the woman’s wounds. They just stood around waiting for the E.M.T unit. The students really stepped up to the plate tonight and possibly saved this woman’s life.

Yes, if it wasn’t for those laws, gang bangers would wander around with illegally concealed weapons, killing each other. Oh wait – they do. And they are ready and willing to fire those guns at little or no provocation, because they are sociopaths.

No matter how macho you believe yourself to be, most rational, well-adjusted people hesitate to fire a gun at another person. If you pull a gun and hesitate, then you are likely to be shot.

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In all my years at UNM I’ve never seen the campus police ‘walking’ the beat.

In all my years at UNM I’ve never seen the campus police ‘walking’ the beat.

Good for UNMPD for responding so quickly. It’s those moments that count, and they know it. In my 5 years at UNM, I’ve seen UNMPD walking, biking and driving several times, especially in the instances I was on campus late at night. It’s hard to be everywhere at once, but they do a good job of taking care of this campus, look how often that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen.

I hope they find the guy.

Why did it take an hour and a half for the Emergency Notification System to kick in? Telling people to “be on the look out” and to “stay in groups” does no good when the stabber is probably long gone. Not only does this do nothing to protect other people on campus, but the delay probably contributed to the stabber’s escape.

UNM POLICE FOOT PATROLS! NOW!

The daily lobo smells like old cabbage.

I didn’t get an emergency text, nor did my daughter. We both signed up for them.

Lucky for this woman that she happend to run into a classroom with people willing to step up to the plate and help out. Good job people!

I think UNMPD should do foot patrol especially at night. I was leaving an evening class at the communication and journalism building on a monday evening three weeks ago. I encountered a tall guy wearing a black pullover in the parking lot of logan hall. He was walking towards me and I noticed that no one else was around so I kinda got scared. I’m handicapped so I am an easy target. I stopped where I was walking because my vehicle was parked in the dark and the street was lit. He saw me and then started walking differently, kinda thuggish. I think he was just trying to scare me and instead of walking on the other side of the street, he came right by me. As soon as I saw him make the turn down the street, I ran to my car and jumped in. After hearing what happened last nite, I am now scared to go to my evening classes. I think UNMPD needs to be out there in car, on bike and on foot, at least then the criminals would see this as a deterrence to their criminal activity.

I spent 10 years on UNM campus as both a student and an employee. My office was located very near where the stabbing occurred, and that part of campus was poorly lit and often nearly vacant at night. I found the walk to my car to be nerve-racking and I never once saw campus police there. I called for an escort to my car once, but it took 45 minutes for them to get there and the walk took 5.

I don’t understand how UNMPD can be so quick on responding to the call, but so sluggish at the scene. To not relieve the kids of their very heroic duties that they showed by helping the victim, but instead standing around like they were site seeing the anthropology building. I cannot believe there lack luster attitudes and believe someone needs to take a look at how UNMPD acted at the scene.

After witnessing a fist fight that escalated into one guy getting jumped by three in the Sub and now this incident proves that campus safety is an issue here. No student, faculty member or staff should feel unsafe and campus police needs to have more of a presence on campus.

Why did we get the message a full hour after the fact- I guess those alerts are useless.

B.S.

If UNMPD actually did their damn jobs and WALKED the beat there wouldn’t be people smoking, everywhere. It isn’t up to students or staff to enforce UNM’s smoking policy. Just now walking across campus I counted over 15 people smoking, one was smoking weed! There is graffiti scrawled on just about every nook and cranny. There are gay people crawling around the men’s bathrooms. It probably won’t be until there is a shooting or worse on campus for Administration to get it’s **** straight. BTW there are camera’s everywhere. Does someone actually monitor these cameras, who, and where?

Every time I am walking around on campus at night I never see any police patrolling. In fact, every time I walk by the UNM police station every spot is full with cop cars. Obviously no one is driving around monitoring for illegal activity. There are also numerous areas where the paths are not well lit. I think there are numerous safety concerns that need to be addressed on UNM campus.

BUT I think monitoring cigarette smoking is the least of their concerns. I would rather them be worrying about my safety than enforcing the smoking ban. Plus, why are you so worried about the weed smoking? I doubt you are getting second hand smoke from that!

I agree, we need more UNMPD on foot patrol. I also have night classes and have to walk through several areas on campus that are poorly lit. I have seen UNMPD in cars, but never on foot or bike. I also think it would be great if UNM would offer self-defense classes free to students and employees.
p.s. What’s up with that last comment? “Gay people crawling around the men’s bathroom” ??
As a gay person, I can assure you that when I’m in the bathroom, I’m in there to go to the bathroom only. You won’t catch “the gay” from seeing us in the bathrooms. And if someone does proposition you in a bathroom, just politely decline. Women have to deal with that kind of crap constantly. Don’t turn this important safety issue into a place to spew your homophobia.

I smoke weed, at home, not on campus. My point was if the ‘UNM’ ‘Campus’ police actually had a presence on the UNM campus, there wouldn’t be scores of gross people smoking on UNM’s smokeless campus.

I smoke weed, at home, not on campus. My point was if the ‘UNM’ ‘Campus’ police actually had a presence on the UNM campus, there wouldn’t be scores of gross people smoking on UNM’s smokeless campus.

i was in that class and i think it took the cops over 8 minutes to come to help her… considering it was on campus i think the response time was unacceptable. after they came they did a good job controlling the situation. Our class jumped out of their seat to help but if we were not in there this would not have ended the same way. there are so many sketchy parts of our campus and even if there are cop cars i almost never see cops especially at night.

i was in that class and i think it took the cops over 8 minutes to come to help her… considering it was on campus i think the response time was unacceptable. after they came they did a good job controlling the situation. Our class jumped out of their seat to help but if we were not in there this would not have ended the same way. there are so many sketchy parts of our campus and even if there are cop cars i almost never see cops especially at night.

“Let’s leave policing to the police.”

You make me LOL.

Has anyone heard information on the cause of the stabbing? I have heard rumors about the man stealing her phone, but haven’t found this in print.

Was this a random attack? (web links anyone?) New information would be nice.