Ever since professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray were killed on a quiet Sunday in March, students, family, friends and colleagues have been tackling the issue of domestic violence.
The Coalition for Immigration, Race and Social Justice is sponsoring a summit Saturday to focus on understanding and educating students on immigration issues. Christopher Ramirez, the project assistant for the Office of Equity and Inclusion, said a variety of people are affected by issues that will be covered at the Back2School Summit, even if they don’t realize it. “Immigration, race and social justice impacts all of us.
Statistics released by the Dean of Student’s office show some surprising numbers: While the number of punished cases of academic dishonesty is going down, the number of unpunished cases is going up. From 2000 to 2005, a student faced disciplinary action in only slightly more than 10 cases per year on average.
The football team is winless, but students are still showing up to support the team. Mark Koson, director UNM ticketing services, said 3,419 student tickets were distributed for the Texas Tech game last week. He said 12,270 season tickets have been sold this season, a decline from the 15,054 sold last year.
Here’s to Mountain West Conference nostalgia. Utah, the No. 14 ranked team in the country, makes its final appearance in University Stadium as MWC members. Aside from the fact that it could be years before Utah football returns to Albuquerque, UNM looks to amend its dismal play during the first two weeks of the season. Head coach Mike Locksley said the special teams unit will undergo several personnel changes. “We tried to give some young guys and guys that haven’t played a lot of opportunities to create a role for themselves on this team,” he said.
Yet another weekend of rigid competition stands before the UNM men’s soccer team. The Lobos welcome Buffalo on Friday and then face their fifth-ranked opponent this season when they play No.
Editor, The planetarium on campus hosts an open house Friday evenings if the sky is clear. I went last Friday and found the views from the telescopes fascinating.
On July 31, head football coach Mike Locksley approached Daily Lobo sports editor Ryan Tomari at Uptown Sports Bar. Locksley disagreed with the stance Tomari took in a column where he said the UNM football program was in “shambles.” Locksley sat down with Tomari and Tomari’s friend and discussed the column and coverage issues.
Every college student is busy with school, work and life. Many of us work several jobs and are full-time students. There’s barely time to breathe between classes, work and attempting to stay connected to our friends, let alone sleep.
“Call me Ishmael.” How else could you start “Moby Dick” in any form? This stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s great American novel is often described as a musical, though it is hardly what you would expect from such a description.
If you like Facebook farming, you’re going to love this. The third annual Open Space Urban Farm and Harvest Festival is taking place Saturday at the Open Space Visitor Center.
To John Morningstar, a co-owner of clothing store Free Radicals, self-expression is an endowed liberty. “Expressing yourself as an individual is the most important birthright we have in this country,” he said. In that vein, Free Radicals, an alternative clothing store, promotes counterculture and competes against big-box, conformist retail chains.
Eating contests and barf buckets go hand in hand. Pizza 9 dough maker Tom Epley, who helped organize a pizza-eating contest to be held this weekend, said the pizzeria keeps buckets on hand during the contest in case anyone loses their lunch, or in this case, their contest. “As the MC, I’m quick to point that out.
There are a lot of things about school that interfere with my doing-nothing-of-importance time. I like to read a lot of books — mostly about things that have a little to do with my studies, or just things I want to learn about.
Undergrads, the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM) is your student government.
The Office of Capital Projects said UNM has seven construction projects underway on main campus, all set to be completed in October. Will Turner, director of the Office of Capital Projects, said there are 23 construction projects have been approved on main campus. “There’s more work out there to be done than we can ever finish,” he said.
Julian Blair, a former defensive back on the UNM football team was involved in the Aug. 25 robbery of teammate Brandon Lewis, according to UNMPD officials. Detective Chris Crespin, the lead investigator in the case, confirmed that Blair is a suspect in the robbery of $1,800 worth of electronics from Lewis’ room. Blair was not named in the Aug. 25 police report, but was dismissed from the team during preseason for an unspecified violation of team rules, an Athletics spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
A proposed buyout plan encouraging older UNM faculty to retire was recently ended because of questions about its financial viability.
Studying at a prestigious foreign university could cost a UNM student slightly more than regular tuition.
New Mexico Public Interest Research Group held a kick-off meeting to discuss its upcoming campaigns. ASUNM senator Melissa Trent said she became involved in PIRG, a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan outreach advocacy group for environmental, consumer and democracy issues, to ensure the student issues are heard. “It’s time to reform, and young people need to be heard in the debate,” Trent said. NMPIRG President Breanna Hastings heads the New Voters Project, a campaign designed to increase voter participation.
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