Editor, I believe it is Ken Piniak who is misrepresenting the Apache gun camera video released by Wikileaks. If you go to Wikileaks you will see the two versions of the video — both the full video which is about 40 minutes and the widely release 17:47 minute video.
Editor, This letter engages in an ongoing conversation begun by Hunter Riley and extended by Kent Ponder.
GPSA President Lissa Knudsen was re-elected to her second term as GPSA president. She received more than 50 percent of the vote, and her opponent, Martin Gutierrez, got almost 43 percent.
Are you looking for a sucker punch to the gut? Or a salty assault to the taste buds? Or maybe you just have a thing against chickens and their children?
Editor, The University of New Mexico has established guidelines to deal with hate and bias acts. These guidelines were established to reflect our belief that everyone has worth and dignity and that any act of hatred or bias will not be tolerated on our campus.
Editor, Good news that Jerry Ortiz y Pino will be on the June ballot. The corporate lobbyists’ stranglehold on almost every legislative process in New Mexico extends to many administrative functions like the Environmental Improvement Board.
The opening ceremony for White History Week was not what you would expect, even if you already knew the event’s name was misleading. White History Week promotes understanding across racial barriers by encouraging discussion of white privilege.
Though working with a smaller staff, the APD Party Patrol will still in full force this summer. APD reduced the Party Patrol’s number of officers from about 18 to 12 in October because of budget cuts.
Teaching diversity in a classroom is one thing, having the opportunity to experience it in your own backyard is something else entirely. The Gathering of Nations is the largest powwow in North America, according to the event website, which boasts nearly 50 million visitors.
It is silly to make comparisons — Jodi Ewart is the measurement of success. “You have people that are mathematical geniuses,” said UNM women’s golf head coach Jill Trujillo.
Open Spaces and the Nicodemus Wilderness Project will collaborate this weekend for the last Spring Cleanup of the month.
Fire scares us in the desert. But we shouldn’t let that fear deter us from attending the Words Afire Festival. The festival, in its 10th year, is an annual celebration and preparation for UNM’s graduate playwright students as they prepare to enter the world of theater, said Elaine Avila, head of the playwright program.
Brush the dust bunnies off the clothes in the back of your closet to trade them in for new clothes at the Sustainable Fashion: Co-ed Clothing Swap on Friday. Olivia Hawkins, co-coordinator of the event, said she didn’t think she had stuff to donate to the event when she first started looking through her closet.
Picture the blurriest photo you’ve ever seen. The sort where the light pools in odd places, the shapes lose their outlines and solidity, and where the blur is more important than what is in focus.
The UNM Residence Hall Association wants to find the greenest dorm. To do so, they have conducted an almost month-long competition to see which dorm can reduce its energy consumption the most.
UNM programs will celebrate Earth Day with the second Annual Sustainability Expo. The Sustainability Expo will promote eco-friendly living and products to UNM students.
A revision to UNM housing contracts will no longer give sororities and fraternities exemption for mid-year release. Residents wanting to relocate to a sorority or fraternity house may still do so after the fall rush period, said Lauren Haggerty, Greek Life adviser, but spring “rushees” will have to wait to move in until the subsequent fall term. “The exemption had been worked out a long time ago with the residence halls, but I think that housing is going through a lot of changes currently,” she said.
Today the polls close for the GPSA presidential election, but Council Chair Danny Hernandez wants to call the whole thing off. Hernandez cited three errors that occurred throughout the election process as reason to scrap the results and start anew. “There have been too many irregularities in this election,” he said in an e-mail. Early Wednesday morning, the GPSA Elections Committee realized that 180 of 5,500 graduate and professional students were not invited to vote in the election.
The UNM Physical Plant Department received results from a state lab on Tuesday, but it didn’t reveal any harmful substances in the discolored UNM well water.
Editor, In light of the Albuquerque Journal’s April 12 front-page article about UNM’s “Mathmagicians,” I write to share my concern about UNM’s funding crisis.
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