Guest lecturers crossed the country to discuss green design with UNM students, faculty and community members this weekend. The School of Architecture and Planning presented "The Benefits of Green Design," a symposium centered on Aldo Leopold's "land ethic" and its use in architecture and planning.
The UNM women's tennis team won three straight matches this weekend to close out its regular season. After two 7-0 victories against Wyoming and Air Force on Thursday and Friday, the Lobos rallied to a 5-2 win over Colorado State on Saturday at the UNM Tennis Complex.
The ASUNM slate Rise hopes to make UNM more accountable, sustainable and safe. The staples of the slate's platform are decreasing the adviser-to-student ratio, advocating environmentally friendly alternatives, starting safe-ride services for students, and increasing student government transparency.
Daily Lobo: What makes this ASUNM election so important? Brian Moore: The economic situation in the state means that UNM is facing a lot more budget cuts than it has in the past, and that can have a really direct impact on students. In the past, ASUNM has been all about just making sure things are OK and cruising along.
Editor, My name is Evan Harris and I am an independent candidate for ASUNM vice president. My previous letters to the Daily Lobo were published on March 31 and April 3 and should be available online. Today, I will focus on some of my ideas for improving ASUNM lobbying efforts.
While Lobo safety Ian Clark is still recovering from off-season shoulder surgery that has kept him from participating in spring practices, it hasn't stopped him from pumping up his teammates, especially on Wednesday at University Stadium. Clark was at the back of the north end zone at University Stadium doing his best to maintain the intensity of the defense, in particular the secondary he will lead in the fall.
What would you like to see the funds from a tuition increase go toward? Robin Walden Graduate History "Not a rec center, for (a) start. Getting tenure-track positions for faculty. Or anything, actually, to do with education and not athletics and wasting money on various other things, basically.
Among the three slates campaigning in the upcoming ASUNM election is Liber, whose platform rests on making student government representative of student needs. The candidates on the Liber slate are juniors Patricia Neddeau, Jessica Nixon, Ruben Pacheco, Sara Saba, Kristen Weil, and sophomore Ben Sugg.
Special projects at UNM will have to shave their budgets to accommodate cuts from the Legislature and the University. Marc Saavedra, director of Government & Community Relations, said the Legislature cut about 28 percent from funds for special projects, not including ethnic centers such as El Centro de la Raza.
Editor, I was surprised and troubled by the lack of statistical detail used to justify the proposed new recreation center in yesterday's article, "Construction of new rec center could raise fees." More than 3,200 students responded to the survey on the proposed recreation center, but how many students were solicited for responses, and what could this number tell us about how important the proposition really is to students? If the proportion of responded to solicited surveys was low, I'm sure our administrators would love to say, "Oh, most of the students were surely too busy furiously studying intellectual subjects.
GPSA election results: GPSA President: Lissa Knudsen (55 percent) Council chairman: Danny Hernandez (uncontested) No-confidence in President David Schmidly: passed (73 percent) No-confidence in Executive Vice President David Harris: passed (83 percent)
To say the UNM football team's offensive line weighs a ton wouldn't be far off. The Lobos' line started off the year weighing a little more than 1,500 pounds altogether. But due to the nature of head coach Mike Locksley's system, they might shed a few pounds before the season is done.
Tuition for in-state students will increase by 5 percent next year, and tuition for out-of-state students will go up by 10 percent. The Board of Regents unanimously approved the increases during the Budget Summit on Thursday. Undergraduate students will pay $5,102 in tuition and fees for the 2009-10 academic year, $268 more than last year.
Editor, This is an outrage: $120 million dollars for a gym next to a gym. I am a struggling undergraduate student, and I cannot afford $200 more a year. I have a child on the way, and my child should not have to pay for the gym when he or she is a student at UNM in 20 years.
It was March 25 that all of Middle Earth was set free from the One Ring of power. In memorial of that, J.R.R. Tolkien fans celebrated international Tolkien Reading Day with UNM Hobbit Society members. President Megan Abrahamson said the Hobbit Society tabled on campus two weeks ago to celebrate Tolkien Reading Day by reading passages from the author's works out loud to passing students.
Editor, The right to vote is absolute and shall not be restricted in any manner whatsoever. Christopher Ramirez had no right to remove three questions from the ballot when the council voted to include them in the election. Limiting speech through manipulated elections is unacceptable and should not be tolerated.
Editor, As an anthropology undergraduate student concentrating in human evolutionary ecology at UNM, I feel fortunate to attend an institution where the faculty and administration do not write off the contributions of undergraduates or the possibility of undergraduate research.
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