The Daily Lobo is starting a series about the creative ways UNM students, staff and faculty are cutting back on spending in light of tighter budgets.
**Editor, I would like to ask the Daily Lobo to promote flu vaccinations for all UNM students, faculty and staff and their families by asking everyone to “Take One for Raymond” this flu season. Our son, Raymond Plotkin, was a healthy freshman from Houston, Texas, who attended UNM last fall when he was stricken by the H1N1 flu virus.
Believe it or not, winter is approaching. The days are getting perceptibly shorter every week. With the diminishing sunlight, your skin is losing the solar power it uses to make vitamin D.
Casa De Salud is looking for volunteers who want to gain hands-on experience in the medical field. The medical clinic in Albuquerque’s South Valley area serves more than 11,000 patients each year, focusing on those without insurance in low-income areas. The clinic now has 20 student volunteers, but is looking for more, said spokesman Zane Maroney. “You’re actually learning medicine,” he said. “Doctors bring you in to watch procedures and explain them step-by-step.” Scholarships and work-study are also available to many volunteers, Maroney said, and volunteers should work six hours per week for a year and speak Spanish proficiently.
Voting is a very important obligation for such an easy registration process, or at least that’s what an on-campus organization is trying to prove.
UNM’s water usage is down thanks to new waste-reducing measures, according to Physical Plant Department representatives.
And the beat goes on. In front of an announced crowd of 22,511, UTEP (4-1) outlasted the UNM football team, 38-20, Saturday at University Stadium. “Right now, we are just not a very good football team,” head football coach Mike Locksley said.
Everybody wanted to be like Mike on Friday. With 24 seconds left in the first overtime, defender Michael Reed dribbled past three defenders on the left wing and found midfielder Michael Green in the box for the go-ahead goal, giving the Lobos a 2-1 victory over UNLV at the UNM Soccer Complex. “I got the ball, and I just went at them,” Reed said.
The UNM volleyball team tallied its sixth win in seven matches last Friday. The Lobos, 10-6 overall and 2-1 in Mountain West Conference action, blazed past UNLV in a three-set sweep at Johnson Center. Head coach Jeff Nelson was all praises after the 3-0 victory. “The win was a team effort,” he said.
Housed. The UNM volleyball team cruised Thursday with a 3-0 win over Air Force in Mountain West Conference volleyball action. After being away from Johnson Center the past two weeks, the Lobos swept the Falcons in three sets for their first MWC win of the season. The Lobos dropped a 3-0 decision at San Diego State in their conference opener last week. Head coach Jeff Nelson said it was pleasant to see UNM return to its winning ways. “We knew (the Falcons) were going to come out hard and put up a fight,” he said.
Brian Hendrickson has a presence in the classroom. Earlier this week, hands flew into the air as anxious students waited to contribute to the larger discussion he led as part of his English 101 class.
Zipcar offers UNM students the freedom of owning a car without associated costs and hassles, yet some students are unaware that the service is available.
After contentious debate, ASUNM passed a resolution by a 10-9 vote Wednesday encouraging UNM administrators to make the salary book available online.
Students criticized an on-campus Christian organization for being unable to spark a comprehensive discussion on the effects of pornography during an event Wednesday. UNM student Elizabeth Boyle said an event on Wednesday called Porn Nation, sponsored by the Campus Crusade for Christ, also known as CRU, lacked diverse perspectives on the topic of pornography. “The fact that it’s a biased view from a strictly Christian perspective is kind of a turn-off.
Welcome home, Lobos. Yet the only thing hitting close to home on south campus after four losses is wondering if the UNM football team will regroup against powerful UTEP (3-1) on Saturday. The Lobos, who have been beaten by a combined average of 56.3 points, hope to round out UNM’s Homecoming week with their first win. Lobo head coach Mike Locksley said it’s another opportunity for his young team to grow. “Every week we have shown some sparks of success,” he said.
If the UNM men’s soccer team took one small step with its nonconference schedule this season, its making one giant leap to reclaim what the Lobos rightfully owned for four years: the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title. The MPSF restructured the league into two four-team divisions, but that doesn’t matter to the Lobos.
Editor, Re: “Professors and administrators ignore cheating to save face.” Why blame the faculty and administration for a problem that students clearly create for themselves?
In the first two parts of this UNM transportation series, I discussed how UNM Parking and Transportation Services needs to step up to reduce our carbon footprint and how managing your transportation options begin with deciding where to live.
Editor, This is my response to the comment from “PencilPusher,” which was published in Wednesday’s “From the Web” on page four.
Albuquerque is slowly becoming a big deal. From the prolific theater to the booming film industry, there is interest flooding our little desert town.
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