President David Schmidly has imposed restrictions on faculty travel in response to the swine flu. Schmidly said in his Monday morning message that "due to increased risks associated with the H1N1 influenza World Health Organization level 5 advisory and the current Center for Disease Control travel advisory," UNM would immediately suspend all travel to Mexico.
New Mexico saw its first confirmed case of swine flu on Saturday, but many UNM students say they aren't concerned. "I really haven't been paying attention to it, to be honest," said freshman Elyse Jalbert. The New Mexico Department of Health reported on May 2 that an 18-year-old male from Valencia County had the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.
Editor, You lost. Get over it. This letter is directed at Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, among others. I'm not sure if you recall this, but there was a democratically held presidential election in November. We hold one of these things every four years, and we have for more than 200 years now.
Editor, I want to say congratulations to Rachel Hill for becoming the new editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. I have seen genuine improvement in the Lobo over the past year, and I'm hopeful that Hill's guidance will make the paper better than ever. With this change in leadership, this seems as good a time as any to explain one of my pet peeves with the Lobo, one that I think has been getting better recently, but should still be addressed.
Daily Lobo: Did you rip those pants yourself? Eric Schreiber: Yes. Eight dollars at the store. It was a Halloween outfit, but they were just way too comfortable. DL: What were you for Halloween? ES: Not sure exactly. I just put stuff together, like, ripped some clothes apart.
Students can stop by the SUB today to learn how to protect themselves from HIV and AIDS. Lawrence Carreon, a physician's assistant at Student Health and Counseling, said students need to educate themselves about the diseases to stay healthy. "There is not a lot of press about HIV," Carreon said.
Fifteen New Mexico schools are closed, and all athletic, extracurricular and after-school activities statewide are canceled because of concern over the H1N1 virus. In addition to public schools in the Lordsburg and Socorro school districts, Carlsbad High School, Deming Intermediate School and Cottonwood Valley Charter School are closed from May 4-10, per the recommendation of the Department of Health and Public Education Departments.
UNM's 2009-10 budget expenses are about 5.2 percent higher than the previous year, an increase of $106 million, but many branch campuses will get less money. The budget was approved by the Board of Regents on Friday. Regent Jack Fortner said he expects to revisit the budget in the future to make adjustments for further state cuts.
Editor, After reading Daniel Martinez's letter, I had a nice, long laugh at the pure foolishness that he was spewing as what, I imagine, was supposed to be some sort of argument. It absolutely baffles me that people want to somehow correlate a simple formality - a meet and greet - as some sort of demeaning process for the United States.
In the battle of the bats, the visitor took the victory Sunday at Lobo Field. UNLV spoiled the final home game for the UNM baseball team and its seniors. The Runnin' Rebels took the weekend series, 2-1, and won 13-11 in extra innings on Sunday. On Saturday, the Lobos out-hit the Runnin' Rebels 12-8, but UNM walked and plunked too many batsmen.
Change is afoot in the newsroom. Rachel Hill has taken over as Daily Lobo editor-in-chief and plans to change the role of the student newspaper in the University. As the Daily Lobo news editor this academic year, Hill oversaw the coverage of some of the biggest issues that arose on campus - from reporting on the infrastructure of UNM's student governments to digging out investigative stories on President David Schmidly.
Karl Marx once told us that capitalism is "vampire-like," and that it lives only by draining the jugular of labor. A century later, mosquitoes - the bourgeois - are still sucking off oxen - the proletariat - and complaining about the blood quality. On Monday, Vanessa Strobbe wrote a column addressing the uneven distribution of funds among UNM's varsity sports.
A win by UNM senior javelin thrower Anthony Fairbanks broke the gloom of a rainy day at the Don Kirby Memorial Invitational. Three lightning delays halted action for more than an hour and a half at the UNM Track Stadium, but Fairbanks wasn't affected by the distractions.
The UNM Queer Straight Alliance is performing this week to highlight the plight of LGBTQ youth. "Diversity Within" was written in the summer of 2006 in part by Stephanie Yurchyk, a UNM graduate student. The play includes six monologues from characters dealing with issues LGBTQ people sometimes face.
With tax deadlines over, we can breathe a sigh of relief for making it through one more year of incomprehensible forms and stacks of paperwork. Most people can also be thankful for not having to deal with another government system that surpasses the IRS in complexity.
Editor, After numerous months of attempted interpretation, I finally realized what President Obama meant by his campaign slogans "hope" and "change." I heard a professor on TV on Tuesday talking about how the recent stimulus package is exactly what America needs and that, as a result, change is on the way.
Editor, Many of us are deeply concerned about the welfare of this country's health - especially with the arrival of the new strain of flu: H1N1 (swine flu). I am very concerned about my fellow students. Professors, please give students the time off and chance to retake exams if students are presenting symptoms or have been exposed to the flu virus without red tape and superfluous hoop jumping.
April 18 A UNM Police officer was dispatched to the Student Residence Center in reference to a distraught young woman. The officer found the young woman, who reported that a student from another dorm had raped her. The officers went to the man's dorm and took him to UNMPD for questioning.
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