Nearly 100 UNM faculty, students and parent association members discussed with democratic state legislators what can be done to get UNM back on track in light of budget cuts at Wednesday’s on-campus Forum on Higher Education.
President Obama nominated UNM law professor Gloria Valencia-Weber to a national board that helps impoverished people get legal services.
Forget The Pit renovations; there is a renovated team on south campus. UNM women’s basketball is constructing a plan to get back into the NCAA tournament after a two-year hiatus in the WNIT. Head coach Don Flanagan said he is optimistic about what he has seen in preseason workouts. “Returning players have come back in good shape,” he said.
By nature of her name, Amanda Best is best known for the big, red glasses she flaunts in her UNM women’s basketball team mug shot. One could say it’s kind of her trademark. When asked at Tuesday’s Lobo women’s basketball media day why she wasn’t wearing her big, red glasses, Best confessed her negligence. “I forgot them,” she said. Around the Rudy Davalos basketball facility, Best is known for her humor.
Editor, Kyle Farris’ letter encouraging political abstinence is as glowing an example of the success of the right-wing propaganda machine as you will find anywhere.
Editor, October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. In 1983, the life expectancy of a person born with Down syndrome was 25 years.
According to the Chinese government, Liu Xiaobo, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, is a criminal.
Sooner or later, you’ll find out that Oklahoma City is not a part of the Dust Bowl. My reasons for going don’t matter, but let it be known that I didn’t go to see the cultural mecca that is Oklahoma City.
The UNM Faculty Senate is hosting an on-campus Forum on Higher Education today, where state legislators and gubernatorial candidates are invited to share their perspectives on New Mexico’s higher education. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood said community members can engage candidates and elected officials about the higher-education issues. “We want to get key higher-education issues that affect students, staff, faculty and the whole higher education community onto the table, and talk with our elected officials about them,” he said. Nine New Mexico legislators, including seven democrats and two republicans, as well as Lt. Gov. candidate Brian Colón, plan to attend the event and answer pre-selected questions, Wood said.
UNM is teaming up with local farmers to feed and educate its neighbors. UNM students collaborated with South Valley Academy Charter School to create a program aimed at teaching students the importance of local organic food.
ASUNM Community Experience is giving students a chance to shed blood. The on-campus community service program is partnering up with United Blood Services for what it hopes will be a record-breaking blood drive.
UNM’s biannual publication “Best Student Essays” is extending its deadline to Friday to take into consideration students struggling with academic stress. The publication anticipates students are consumed by midterms around the publication’s deadline, said Ryan Tynan, the managing and web editor. “What tends to happen is that students get really busy at the beginning of the semester, and everybody getting back on their feet,” he said.
Instructors and TAs took a stand Thursday and told their students what they see as failed administrative decisions: budget cuts, rising tuition rates and University privatization. Liza Minno Bloom, a member of Graduate Employees Together, said the discussions were part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, a campaign to raise awareness. “People don’t know the severity of the budget cuts,” she said. “Right now, it’s a 3.2 percent budget cut. … Next year they’re proposing a 5 percent budget cut. That’s massive. That’s going to be pretty devastating, and people don’t know about it.” Minno Bloom said some people have a misperception of how severely cuts will affect academics. “(The administration) really framed discussions as if we had to have 3.2 percent cuts across the board,” she said. “There are other more creative ways I think we could be solving some of the budget problems without going to academic lines.”
President Schmidly and his administration received their latest “no-confidence vote” in a town hall meeting UNM-Gallup students held Friday. Student Senate President Josephine Brown said she hopes the vote brings ongoing issues to light.
Editor, The SFRB Task Force’s decision is janky. Yes, that’s right; it’s janky. This letter is a response to the Daily Lobo article, “ASUNM hastily passes fee resolution.” If you are only reading this to find out what the word janky means, you will probably give this article about as much thought as the Student Fee Review Board was allowed to have concerning the monumental ruling it is being required to make.
Editor, I respect the original libertarian Tea Party of Rep. Ron Paul, Adam Kokesh and Gary Johnson.
Editor, It seems that there is a lack of attention given in our communities to the problems faced by our local animal populations, particularly feral cats.
It might have started in Great Britain, but it’s become a stamp of Americana. Stamp collecting is practiced across the nation, and the Albuquerque Philatelist Society is the epicenter for local collectors.
Dear cast and crew of “I Considered Smiling,” The Desert Rose Playhouse and everyone: There is nowhere to begin.
After being on the road for six straight games, the No. 25 UNM women’s soccer team threw out the welcome mat for San Diego State. But on Friday, the visitors were met with an inhospitable result, and the Lobos topped the Aztecs 2-1 at the UNM Soccer Complex.
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