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Opinion

Fraud abounds during census season

Mike Carr/Daily Lobo guest columnist | April 6

When it comes to fraud, nothing is off limits, especially on the Internet. With the 2010 Census swinging into high gear and tax season already well underway, expect to see fraudulent “census” and “tax” e-mail and text messages in the near future.  For starters, the Internal Revenue Service never conducts business via e-mail, text messaging or the telephone. For the most part, this is also true about the U.S.

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Sports

Recruits thrown to the wolves

Isaac Avilucea | April 5

On the seventh day, God took a welcome respite from work. On the seventh day of spring practice, Lobo head football coach Mike Locksley worked his quarterbacks through a day of “live” action. Goodbye, black jerseys.

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Sports

Alford gets, like, a bajillion dollars

Mario Trujillo | April 5

Already the highest-paid employee at UNM, Lobo head basketball coach Steve Alford is slated to rake in nearly $100,000 in bonuses after the Lobos’ record-breaking season. Last year the Daily Lobo reported that Alford received $45,000 in “incentive pay.” This year, Alford is set to receive $95,000 in bonuses, with an extra $25,000 being added to his base salary next year.

Michael Green , center, tumbles to the field as West Texas A&M’s Nicki Nielsen, right, pursues the ball during the Lobos’ scrimmage on Saturday at Robertson Field
Sports

Sense of unity replaces primadonna attitudes

Isaac Avilucea | April 5

As they walked westward into the sun, all that was visible were the backs of three Lobos, the only distinguishable feature being the numbers on their jerseys. The bench that Michael Green, Levi Rossi and Patrick Pacheco had just sat on during the UNM men’s soccer team’s scrimmage against Colorado State-Pueblo now rested on their shoulders, as they carried it back toward the storage facilities.

Marc Smith, inventor of slam poetry, takes a moment before performing at the Atomic Cantina on Thursday. Check out the Multimedia section of DailyLobo.com for the podcast.
News

ABQ poets' skills nationally feared

Andrew Beale | April 5

Poets paced in the Outpost Performance Space courtyard on Saturday night reciting poems one last time before the competition. It was a contest between 10 of Albuquerque’s top slam poets to determine the four that would make the national team. Chicago-based slam poet Tim Stafford emceed.

David Conway
News

Get to know: David Conway

Mario Trujillo | April 5

David Conway is running for ASUNM president on the Wolfpack slate. The Daily Lobo sat down with him to talk about free tickets for athletic events, security and the difference between his opponent and himself. Daily Lobo: Athletics isn’t a necessary part of the educational atmosphere of UNM, so if anything has to be on the chopping block, shouldn’t it be something that is nonessential like free student tickets? David Conway: We have to be sure that we are still building a community at this University.

Regent Don Chalmers listens to a presentation during the budget summit Friday in the SUB. The Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fees 7.9 percent, or $405.
News

Regents pass $10 student fee hike

Pat Lohmann | April 5

The Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fees by $405, and $64 of that increase is not covered by the NM Lottery Scholarship. The regents have until April 30 to tweak the increase, but if it stands, tuition and fees will be about $5,505 per undergraduate student per semester.

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News

Pink Floyd has crossed the magenta line

Shaun Griswold | April 5

The name on his driver’s license says Lawrence Floyd, but he introduces himself as Pink while strumming an air guitar and humming his favorite Pink Floyd song, “Comfortably Numb.” Floyd is one of the hundreds who will sleep on the streets of Albuquerque tonight.

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Opinion

Civil rights no match for U.S. politix

April 5

On Saturday morning, I was driving down the highway, in some busy section of town by R.E.I., and I saw two young men dressed in suits, standing on the highway meridian.

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Sports

Switching up from backfield to secondary

Ryan Tomari | April 1

As if he was sitting in his favorite recliner, A.J. Butler was cozy at the tailback position on the UNM football team his freshman year in 2009. Now his role on the Lobo football has taken an uneasy turn, but maybe not for the worse. “I got so comfortable at running back, and I made good plays last year,” said Butler, who carried the ball 50 times for 177 yards and a touchdown.

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News

Students to send their work to space

Kallie Red-Horse | April 1

New Mexico’s budding space industry is blasting off, and it’s going to take the work of UNM students with it. Spaceport America, located south of Truth and Consequences and expected to open business to passengers in summer 2011, will host an education launch May 1 with a UNM project on board. Olga Lavrova, faculty adviser for the project, said the educational value of allowing students to work on the project offered a futuristic application of classroom concepts. “This was a great opportunity for them to take what they learned in the classroom as well as see a spaceship take off and land,” she said.

Senior Devin Most signs a thank you letter to UNM President David Schmidly in the SUB on Thursday. PIRG was circulating the letter after the administration rescinded its recommendation to cut the group and several others instead of raising student fees.
News

Regents weigh hike in student fees

Pat Lohmann and Mario Trujillo | April 1

Student fees look, once again, like they’re going to increase by $10.10 to a total of $456.91 next year in order to fund three organizations and a Queer Resource Center. The groups and center were set to losing funding after Cheo Torres, vice president of Student Affairs, asked the Board of Regents not to increase student fees, a suggestion that conflicted with the Student Fee Review Board’s recommendation of a $10.10 increase in February. Torres rescinded the recommendation in a memo addressed to Provost Suzanne Ortega on Thursday.

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News

UNM will approve budget at summit

Leah Valencia | April 1

The UNM Board of Regents may give a new meaning to cutting classes at today’s budget summit. Administrators will meet with several UNM departments in SUB Ballroom C to discuss and approve a final budget for the 2011 fiscal year. Raymond Sanchez, president of the Board of Regents, said that though UNM is facing a 7.7 percent reduction in state funding, he is confident the University is braced to handle it. “It has been a rough year financially and otherwise,” he said.

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