It has been an eventful first week back on campus to start the term, and students took to social media to express the frustrations/victories/excitement/stress that they felt about returning to UNM.
Following New Mexico’s season opening loss to No. 19 Texas Tech on the road, the women’s soccer team is headed to the west coast to take on yet another ranked opponent in the California Golden Bears. The Lobos (0-1-0) scheduled to start the season away from home, playing its first seven matches away from the UNM Soccer Complex.
The Associated Students of UNM, Chartwells and UNM Food Services have partnered to offer a new scholarship providing "Food 4 Lobos." The trio of organizations are collaborating to create two new, needs-based scholarships that will provide students with a full-year meal plan, allowing them to eat at La Posada and other locations on campus.
New Mexico is not shying away from heightened competition at the start of the 2016 campaign, and that's just how head coach Jeff Nelson likes it. Two of last year’s top competitors in the nation will be heading to Johnson Gym to participate in the UNM Tournament this weekend.
Construction for Albuquerque Rapid Transit is expected to begin in early September, and the city and UNM are making plans to ensure traffic runs smoothly during the project. Detailed plans are in place designed to keep one lane of traffic open in each direction during construction said, said ART Spokeswoman Joanie Griffin.
The Lobo secondary could be one of the keys to success on an improving defense. Head coach Bob Davie said safety is one of the positions where a few players have separated themselves. He said Ryan Santos and Daniel Henry are ahead of the pack at this time.
When it comes to their season opener, the Lobos aren’t cautiously wading into the water, they are diving in head first. The UNM men’s soccer team will travel to South Bend, Indiana to face the Indiana University Hoosiers, a team that is currently ranked at No. 13. This is part of the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament weekend. The Lobos play Indiana on Friday and Notre Dame on Sunday.
On Tuesday the Party for Socialism and Liberation gathered at a county commissioners meeting demanding justice for Suzie Chavez, the prison inmate assaulted by officers at Albuquerque Metropolitan Detention Center last year.
Do most college graduates live more wisely than minimum wage worker who never went to high school? Do most college graduates travel less, pollute less, cause less global climate chaos? Do most college graduates pay less federal income tax for war? Do most college graduates consume less and live more simply and fairly in our world family of more than seven billion people?
It took a while. It took some merchandise, ticket sales, enthusiasm and a basic corporate understanding of present-day music trends, but, finally, our little desert town is pretty much on the concert map full-time. In the next three months there will be a surplus of diverse and extravagant artists featured in Albuquerque.
The UNM Bookstore has actively worked to reduce textbook costs in recent year, the average price dropping from $88 to $69 per book, according to Bookstore Director Carrie Mitchell. The Bookstore’s business practices have undergone a number of changes to increase affordability for students, including where it purchases textbooks from.
Planning and pre-development on a sports entertainment complex in the shadow of University Stadium is progressing, with construction expected to begin early next year on a project that is currently bigger than originally was expected.
According to data gathered by UNM's marketing team, the average person has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. In line with that, the University's goal with branding is keeping the promotional message candy-coated but to the point.
UNM’s Children’s Campus hosted its third annual Early Childhood Seminar last weekend. The child care center, which currently enrolls 300 children, closed Friday for the first day of the seminar. According to the center's website, the seminar brought in speakers Christy Isbell, a pediatric occupational therapist who’s talks focused on sensory integration techniques, and Gigi Schweikert, an early childhood expert whose talks focused on supporting and guiding behavior.
UNM is to be in compliance with a new federal regulation that extends overtime pay to some of its employees. The new policy of the Fair Labors Standard Act will go into effect Dec. 1, potentially extending overtime pay to over four million workers nationally. Meanwhile, UNM is re-classifying some exempt and non-exempt employees and focusing on tracking employee hours. The current FLSA regulation is that employees earning $23,660 or less per year and performing certain job tasks were entitled to overtime pay.
A NASA-led study of a Four Corners methane “hot spot” has found that approximately half of the leaked methane emissions in the region are coming from just 10 percent of individual sources. The “hot spot” was detected by researchers in past observations from a European satellite, according to an official release from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This recent study has made it possible to quantify the magnitude of the overall emissions as well as the magnitudes of its sources.
A campus-wide internet outage on the first day of classes caused headaches across UNM for everyone from IT personell, bookstore employees and, most importantly, students and teachers whose access to internet is crucial to learning. “It is very rough for a first day,” said Networks Director Steve Perry.
A newspaper – or any local media form – is only as strong and diverse as the community it serves. Luckily for us at the Daily Lobo, the community at the University of New Mexico fits the bill. And over the next nine months, we pledge to do the best we can to appeal to that strength, working to bring you the highest caliber of news and content that we possibly can on a regular basis.
No one should have to starve themselves in the name of good cinema. Luckily, the UNM SUB has released its Mid-Week Movie schedule for the fall semester, comprised of selections from over the summer. Here is a guide to the movies you can catch this semester, and the perfect type of person for each.
When a team sits one quarterback down, it is usually thanks to an injury or because he was benched for poor play. However, instances of two-quarterback play may have occurred more often than one might think—especially in recent history. As recently as last season, defending champion Ohio State entered the season with a similar conundrum.
Solutions by The State News
