Undergraduate students won’t have to visit the SUB to vote in elections for the Associated Students of UNM in the fall. In fact, they won’t even have to be on campus. ASUNM unanimously passed Bill 21S last week at its last Senate meeting of the semester, approving an initiative headed by Sens. Nadia Cabrera and Bisaan Hanouneh that would allow online access to ASUNM elections.
Cosplayers and anime fans filled the Crown Plaza hotel this weekend for Sabaku Con. Sabaku Con is an anime and Japanese pop-culture convention created to help build the anime fan community, according to Sabaku Con’s website.
Adrian Carver is a native of Albuquerque and Spanish alumnus. As a student Carver became a founding member of the New Mexico Youth Alliance, and he is now serving as the co-director of the New Mexico Forum for Youth in Community. Through the years he has served with many other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Educational Equity Working Group and the New Mexico Men’s Council for Boys and Young Men.
Yellowstone National Park’s bowels are at least 9,000 kilometers deep. Although this may seem like an odd statistic, one of UNM’s assistant professors, who is working in conjunction with the University of Utah, said it was partially expected.
Less than two months after opening, University Grill will be moving to a brand new location. The previous location, at 1606 Central Ave. SE, did not work out for restaurant owner Paul Kress, who said his landlord, David Souls, was charging him for the utilities of the other businesses housed in the complex where the University Grill used to be. After engaging in several conversations, Kress said the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement, and required legal assistance. Kress said he has since pressed charges against Souls and has moved his business to 120 Harvard SE. “Everyone said I was crazy for moving. My friends said I was crazy,” Kress said. “My attorneys said I made the right decision.”
Referring to the protracted equivocation on the part of our ASUNM Senate to pass the resolution to divest from certain American multinationals implicitly supporting the effective imprisonment and brutalizing of an entire demographic just because they are Palestinian: Imagine a hypothetical ASUNM having a similar session back during World War II. The resolution demands UNM divest from companies, like IBM and Ford, that were supporting Nazi Germany, which was imprisoning and brutalizing an entire demographic just because they were Jewish.
UNM is again planning to pursue a state-of-the-art replacement facility for the overcrowded University hospital after the plan was rejected by the State Board of Finance in 2012. The decision was made public earlier this month by UNM Chancellor for Health Sciences Paul Roth during a board of directors meeting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The main building is aging and the flagship hospital is unable to meet the demands of the increasing number of patients, he said. “Right now we are in the planning process that includes evaluation of a replacement facility toward the main UNM hospital,” said Dr. Michael Richards, executive physician-in-chief of the UNM Health System. “This is still in the planning stages.”
I commend Dean of Students Tomas Aguirre for bravely stating that the ISIS panel denounced ISIS. Apparently his authority position gives credibility to this claim. But we do not need to settle for this. In fact, we should look higher — to our commander-in-chief/comrade-in-chief/secret Muslim (take your pick) in the White House. After all, isn’t this the ultimate authority figure in our nation who has claimed that Islam is a religion of peace? The problem is that these claims have no Islamic basis for justification. Simply claiming this or that without substantiation means nothing. However, we should keep in mind that these people are human beings too, and that they have made an error about “the religion of peace.” Muslims cannot explicitly deny jihad without discrediting authentic Islamic sources. Simply stating opposition to ISIS could actually mean frustration that a Muslim group has gone too fast and too far ahead of the rest of the umma — in this case, the likes of ISIS and al-Qaeda. Obviously, a more subtle approach such as civilization jihad is necessary, as advocated by the Muslim Brotherhood and recently by an ISIS manual on deception for Muslims.
The Empire Board Game Library celebrated its grand opening on Friday after a successful soft opening two weeks ago. The board game café is the first of its kind in New Mexico. Rory Veronda, the owner of Empire Board Game Library, said he was influenced by board game cafés in Europe and Canada. The Empire Board Game Library contains more than 600 games, including iconic games like Monopoly and Risk as well as the various themed boards. “The idea is that we want to build a board game community and build a collection,” he said.
When the Mountain West Men’s Tennis Championship comes around, Boise State plays at a different level. Despite winning the regular-season title, New Mexico faltered against the Broncos 4-1 on Saturday afternoon in the conference tourney semifinals. Boise State went on to win the Mountain West title with a 4-3 victory over Nevada on Sunday. The Broncos have now won the Mountain West tournament for four straight seasons. “We knew the danger; we know how good Boise is,” Lobo head coach Bart Scott said on Saturday. “We know they turn it on in the conference tournament and we were prepared for it. We just didn’t play our best, and Boise had something to do with that.”
Sports Briefs Baseball Close losses have haunted the UNM baseball team this season, and this past weekend was no different. The Lobos were swept by Wichita State and two of those losses were by just one-run.
New Mexico volleyball has its sights on the NCAA tournament this season. After releasing the 2015 schedule on Friday, head coach Jeff Nelson said he devised the schedule with the vision of a playoff run, without needing to win the conference. “It’s always the goal to win the conference,” Nelson said. “But scheduling like this, it gives us an opportunity to get a second or third (place) team into the postseason, if we can do well.”
About 10 percent of pregnancies occur while the woman is in college. At the University of New Mexico, there are 14 lactation stations for breastfeeding mothers and three changing tables. Carolyn Romero is due July 19, and said she goes to school full-time. She will graduate in July, as well. She said that while staff and faculty have been supportive and understanding, she wishes there were more resources on campus for her and her baby. “More support groups and more information out there about the different resources,” she said. “There could be more resources that I just don’t know about, but it’s just not very well-known.” UNM’s Students for Life chapter offers one resource called Pregnant on Campus that focuses on women who have or will have children while attending UNM. They often provide help with rent and a finding place to stay, as well as getting food benefits such as WIC or EBT. They also work closely with other programs on campus.
The UNM women’s tennis team made school history on Sunday by winning its first Mountain West Championship. The Lobos claimed the 2015 title tournament after defeating the Wyoming Cowgirls, though the road to the top was far from smooth. The team had to overcome poor weather conditions, match delays and a few trips to the doctor. But those obstacles were not enough to stop them.
Editor, I want to clear something up for those of you who saw my story on the news about a month ago, since a lot of people seem to think parents asking for more support on campus is an act of entitlement and being ungrateful. If a department chooses to have a lactation center, then they should fulfill that promise and make sure that resource is available to nursing mothers.
After nearly three hours of heated discussion, the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico’s senators failed Resolution 12S by a vote of 4-14-2 at their final Senate meeting of the semester on Wednesday. The legislation would have called upon the University to be transparent in its investments, and it specifically urged UNM to pressure companies, such as Hewlett-Packard and Caterpillar contributing to the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Chris Harriman isn’t new to New Mexico and its men’s basketball program. In 2011, Harriman came to The Pit and got his first taste of UNM as a member of the Saint Louis coaching staff.
Michele Leonhart’s days as head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency are numbered. Last week, members of the House Oversight Committee delivered a vote of “no confidence” in her leadership abilities. Leonhart’s tenure as chief administrator for the troubled agency has seen a litany of scandals including, among others, the massacre of civilians in Honduras, defying President Obama on medical marijuana, the use of NSA metadata to illegally spy on Americans, and systematically fabricating evidence to obstruct federal investigations into the agency.
A dominating performance against Air Force fueled New Mexico to the Mountain West Men’s Tennis Championship semifinals. Not much went wrong for UNM in Thursday night’s first round at the McKinnon Family Tennis Stadium. The No. 1 seeded Lobos did not lose a single set to the No. 8 Falcons.
The UNM Cancer Center is conducting phase-3 trials for a vaccine that may be capable of detecting kidney cancer cells that are otherwise undetectable, according to a UNM Health Sciences Center press release. Richard Lauer, chief medical officer for the Cancer Center, said his clinical trials may unlock the mysteries of cancer.
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