WASHINGTON — Take a hard look now. A new agency that consumers were promised would make bankers, credit card companies and mortgage lenders treat them fairly will never look as strong again. Legislation to establish President Barack Obama’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency cleared a key hurdle this week.
Editor, I can’t believe that the voters in this state are seriously considering electing Diane Denish given how badly her administration has handled the budget in Santa Fe.
Daily Lobo: What do you study? Galen Billings: I’m a freshman, man. I haven’t really gone in any direction right now, but I’m thinking journalism. DL: I’m studying journalism myself.
Nonprofit organizations around New Mexico may soon see a boost in funding — even in hard economic times. Faculty, staff and students are teaming up for the annual UNM and United Way campaign called “UNM Lives United,” which began Monday. United Way is a national nonprofit organization that raises funds for issues such as education and health care. This year, UNM’s goal is to raise $1 million for the organization.
Graduates from Albuquerque high schools are increasingly attending UNM rather than schools out of state and simultaneously choosing to live off-campus, according to data provided by the offices of Enrollment Management and Student Housing. Ten percent more Albuquerque high school graduates — including high schools in Rio Rancho — have attended UNM since the beginning of the recession, according to Enrollment Management.
Harvest season is winding down, but students can still buy local food and support the local economy. Nolina Bryant, owner of Nolina’s Heavenly Organics farm, said purchasing locally grown foods is better for everyone all around. “Most produce is shipped far to be available in the grocery store,” she said in an e-mail.
Suspense is the scariest part of the film “Paranormal Activity,” which follows the supernatural happenings of a young couple. Katie Featherston has been haunted since she was 8 years old but recently noticed an increase in strange nighttime activity.
Editor, This is an open letter to David Harris, UNM executive vice president and former UNM interim, aka “acting” president: Dear Dave, Given the fiscal crisis at the University, I’ve been batting around some ideas about cost cutting and fundraising over the next year or two.
Editor, As a Religious Studies major who happens to be Muslim, I recently signed up for classes related to my religion of choice: Islam.
On Sunday, volunteers around the country united to participate in the largest community service effort in the nation — Make a Difference Day.
UNM’s chapter of the Lambda Theta Phi Latin fraternity spent the weekend giving bicycles to children who need them. About 15 members of the fraternity volunteered to help the Community Bike Recycling Program.
UNM and its peer institutions are finding themselves with an influx of students who need advisement, but the universities don’t have the money to hire more advisers. UNM’s University College student-to-adviser ratio of 770-to-1 is the highest of 16 peer institutions that had data readily available, and it is more than twice the last recorded national average.
A group of environmentally-conscious students have organized to promote recycling in the dorms. Eco-Reps — a collaborative effort between UNM Recycling, Residence Life and Student Housing and a service learning class — is a group of students who want more recycling opportunities on campus, said Elyse Jalbert, the group’s president. “Eco-Reps are elected student leaders who basically encourage sustainable living and recycling in the dorm,” Jalbert said. Since 2004, UNM Recycling has attempted to install permanent recycling bins near the residence halls — including a 30-yard bin between lower Johnson and Santa Ana residence halls — but they have been placed sporadically and are removed without notice, said Linda McCormick, president of UNM Recycling. McCormick said the bins were moved to south campus and there are no plans to return them closer to the dorms. “They were moved out of there for a variety of reasons and they are now located on the south side of the Pit,” McCormick said. There are several cardboard recycling bins near the dorms, and McCormick said students should use them until more substantial bins are provided. “The ones that I put near the dorms — they can put bottles and cans in a bin and they can also put cardboard or paper or anything else in the other bins,” McCormick said.
All preliminary evidence points to one thing: Right now, the UNM football team is as malleable as soft-serve. It’s too bad the Lobos don’t play on Sunday, because they would go well with hot fudge.
Subtracting head coach Mike Locksley from the mix didn’t add up to a win for the UNM football team.
The Lobo Football team is supposed to be in the winning business. But judging by the first seven games, business ain’t a-boomin’. With the 34-17 loss to UNLV, the Lobos join the ranks of only four other teams who remain winless in Division I football this season. “Definitely, when you go 0-7, there is disappointment in the team,” linebacker Carmen Messina said.
The UNM volleyball team went toe-to-toe with No. 25 Colorado State on Saturday at Johnson Gym. Despite junior outside hitter Taylor Hadfield’s career-high 21 kills, the Lobos dropped a 3-2 — 25-18, 18-25, 25-20, 20-25, 15-11 — heartbreaker. The outcome brought tears of disappointment from several UNM players, but the hard-fought match drew a standing ovation from more than 2,000 fans in attendance. “We battled for it,” head coach Jeff Nelson said.
Editor, As a former student member of the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers program, I was dismayed and outraged to find out that it’s at risk of being discontinued.
Editor, The recent Daily Lobo article on the construction of a new parking lot has drawn attention, yet again, to the University’s problems with traffic in and around the campus area.
Editor, This is the first letter I have written to the newspaper because there has been nothing I felt so passionate about until now.
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