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(11/17/10 7:59am)
New life is springing from Albuquerque’s recycled materials.
A new partnership between the city of Albuquerque and Growstone, a subset of Santa Fe-based company Earthstone, has landfill glass waste being turned into a hydroponic gardening tool.
(11/12/10 7:25am)
Confused about the construction on Lead and Coal avenues? You aren’t the only one.
The roads are undergoing an 18-month-long overhaul. The construction has been in the works since about 1989, said Mark Motsko, the City’s Municipal Development spokesman.
(11/11/10 7:53am)
Bed bugs suck.
Though previously eradicated, a resurgence of the nighttime pests has Albuquerque crawling with them.
David Swanson, of Patriot Pest Control, said college students are at the highest risk of getting bed bugs.
(11/10/10 6:53am)
UNM graduate students won’t accept budget cuts without a fight.
Somber, red-clad graduate students lined the back wall of the SUB ballrooms during Tuesday’s Board of Regents meeting and raised signs to contest the current 3.2 percent and proposed 5 percent budget cuts.
(11/09/10 6:46am)
The north side of the SUB became a religious battleground Monday.
Muslims, homosexuality and premarital sex were among the subjects addressed by a visiting Christian group, creating uproar from students passing by.
(09/23/10 6:40am)
Editor’s Note: Lobos Abroad is a regular column written by Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester.
(07/06/10 7:50am)
UNM pharmacy student Paul DeSantis faces up to 20 years in jail after being charged with possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and possession of firearms.
(06/28/10 10:05am)
A fire at 1301 Broadway Blvd. N.E. broke out last Wednesday evening in a building that houses three businesses: Cross Country Auto Parts, TMM Business Records Storage and Factory Motor Parts.
(06/07/10 11:31am)
Parking and Transportation Services is allowing students, faculty and staff to jump on a waiting list for permits to the new parking structure on Yale Boulevard and Lomas Boulevard.
(06/01/10 7:06pm)
The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center (HSLIC) is undergoing a technological makeover.
(05/12/10 7:58pm)
The Board of Regents unanimously voted in favor of the ground lease agreement for an 864-bed dorm complex on south campus.
Before the decision, however, several community members and UNM staff and students voiced concern about the project. Steve Borbas, a former campus planner said he came to the meeting to voice his opposition to building off campus dorms.
“We have learned from campus planning across the country that students would like to be on the central campus,” he said. “They would like to be close to academic, recreational and social action. They would like to use the library, the computer center, the student union, recreational facilities and medical facilities. None of these functions are on the south campus.”
New housing is needed Borbas said, but it should be on campus, possibly east of the Architecture and Planning building.
“We have lots of space on campus,” he said. “I think we are just a little afraid to say ‘No, a parking lot is not a sacred site. It is something that can be built upon’.”
Regent Jamie Koch said the public had plenty of opportunity to give input, but many critics did not speak up.
“Steve, I didn’t see you at any one of our meetings,” he said. “We had 13 public meetings. There is no question that everything we have had has been completely open to the public. Now we are at the final stage. We have negotiated the areas that were of concern to us.”
South Campus is the only place for the university to successfully expand, Koch said.
“We are landlocked on main campus,” he said. “We are an island and the only place we have is, really, south campus. Potentially the south campus will now become more of a community for the University.”
Continuing to build housing around Central Avenue and Lomas Boulevard will economically help the city, said City Councilor Issac Benton.
“We might be missing some opportunities with Lomas and Central quarters,” he said. “Major universities all over the country have thriving commercial quarters that are not just student focused. It’s a very important redevelopment opportunity for the city. ”
ASUNM’s David Conway and Monika Roberts voiced support for the project.
“I can say that as a student I would live in that apartment,” Conway said. “A lot of students live off campus; a lot of students live in things that are not involved in student life, that do not have any student life component to it — this does.”
Building on UNM’s parking lots is not an option Regent Jack Fortner said, and students have the option to choose where they live.
“Students are going to live there because they want to, not because someone says you have to,” he said. “You say parking spaces aren’t a sacred site but there are thousands of students that would disagree with you. Parking is a problem; we are already short parking spaces and you want to take away spots. What do you say to the students?”
Elisha Allen, staff council president, said students won’t get the same educational environment provided by main campus housing.
“My question is whether or not we are really going to get the academic achievement benefits of having student housing in that location,” he said.
ACC President Bill Bayless said, aside from the location, the new dorms will have all the same amenities of an on-campus residence hall.
“The community has been designed as an active living and learning center,” he said. “We will have the same type of on-campus staff you would expect any university owned facility. All the things you have come to expect in an on-campus residence you would operate yourself will indeed be conducted in this community.”
Koch said that the Board of Regents contains a successful business man and an experienced lawyer to ensure the agreement is solid and beneficial to the university.
“Don Chalmers is truly a business man. He understands business, understands putting a deal together, and how that deal should be put together,” he said. “Gene Gallegos was an attorney for over 30 years. Gene Gallegos went through all the language page-by-page.”
The partnership with ACC will allow the University to generate currently unavailable revenue for future housing projects, Koch said.
“If we wanted to build our own dorms, we first would have to have the revenue source to do that. Secondly, we would have to go through about three years of approval to get it done,” he said. “We are having a ground lease that over a period of time is giving us a guarantee of revenue. If we wanted to be able to remodel the dorms, we could do that. Over a 40 period that’s $22 million of revenue.”
(05/06/10 6:41am)
The Scholes Hall elevator has suffered a “catastrophic failure,”
(05/05/10 5:18am)
A conference on campus today addresses a Senate bill that would allow exceptional undocumented students a streamlined path to U.S. citizenship.
(05/04/10 6:50am)
Censorship is a touchy subject in America, but it’s a part of everyday life in other countries.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jed Crandall and Ph.D student Jong Chun Park have been working to understand the Chinese government’s methods of Internet censorship. The two will present their findings in Genoa, Italy this summer at the 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
(04/30/10 5:18am)
Sure, it’s a quick way to get across campus, but skateboarding could be hazardous to your health or the health of passersby.
Rick Olcott, who works at University College, said he has been hit twice in the past nine months by students whizzing by.
(04/29/10 5:59am)
Attention UNM: Erase the Take Back the Campus event from your agenda. It has been postponed to make room for the Undie Run.
The campus safety walk, organized in response to the Feb. 15 stabbing on campus, will now take place next semester, possibly in October, said ASUNM Senator Zoila Alvarez.
(04/27/10 4:37am)
UNM undergraduate research on lightning is creating a spark in the scientific community.
Students at the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations & Applications Center (COSMIAC) are designing instruments that will be used to study ionospheric activity.
(04/26/10 7:15am)
Elvis Presley’s voice suddenly blasted from of a boom box in the SUB Friday, as clusters of students began dancing in unison.
Student Lauren Clinger said she felt thrown in the midst of a Popejoy production.
(04/22/10 6:19am)
A revision to UNM housing contracts will no longer give sororities and fraternities exemption for mid-year release.
Residents wanting to relocate to a sorority or fraternity house may still do so after the fall rush period, said Lauren Haggerty, Greek Life adviser, but spring “rushees” will have to wait to move in until the subsequent fall term.
(04/20/10 4:33am)
A new UNM program is hosting a national security event on campus today to discuss “challenges and opportunities” in the field of national security.
The National Security Colloquium takes place in the Southwest Film Center in the lower SUB today. Frank Gilfeather, director of UNM’s National Securities Studies Program, said students shouldn’t approach the colloquium like they might other career fairs.