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The Howl: Feb. 22 episode
February 22Here's this week's episode of The Howl, the Daily Lobo's weekly news webcast.
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Scholarship safe for 2 more years
Ardee Napolitano and Chloe Henson | February 21Despite the last-minute passage of a solution for its solvency issue, student governments statewide feel confident about the compromise that will allow the Legislative Lottery Scholarship to continue.
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West campus to offer complete degrees
Mychal Miltenberger | February 21Beginning this fall semester, UNM West will offer degree programs that can be completed in their entirety at the UNM West campus. This will be the first time UNM West, which opened in 2008, will offer this opportunity to students.
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Some students lament 15-hour requirement
Antonio Sanchez | February 21UNM student James Long, a biochemistry major, opened last semester taking 16 credit hours at UNM while working as a server at Applebee’s. By the end of the fall semester, Long’s grades dropped. He quit his job, and he lost his Legislative Lottery Scholarship.
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Legislative Lottery Bill passes, increases credit hour requirement
Ardee Napolitano | February 20Three minutes before the state Legislature declared sine die, lawmakers were able to pass a solution to the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s solvency issue.
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Bill would increase required hours
Ardee Napolitano | February 20After an all-nighter on the eve of the state legislative session finale, lawmakers will have to issue a final solution to preserve the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s future. Legislators will have to pass a lottery bill by noon to prolong the Scholarship’s existence.
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County donates to Innovate
Chloe Henson | February 20The Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners decided to pitch in $1 million to Innovate ABQ last week. Bernalillo County Commissioner Lonnie Talbert said he proposed contributing the money because he wanted to help the people of Albuquerque take advantage of a centralized innovation center.
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Nation briefs
Chloe Henson | February 20Tens of thousands of residents have failed to register their guns with state police, according to CBS Local News. The gun owners are in violation of a gun law that requires citizens to have registered their weapons by Dec. 31 of last year.
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PhD fellowships funded
Chloe Henson | February 19A national foundation has awarded UNM $800,000 to help some graduate students complete their dissertations. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the five-year grant to UNM in order to fund 20 dissertation completion fellowships.
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Minimum hours cut to 120
Chloe Henson | February 19Undergraduates will now need to take fewer credit hours in order to graduate. The UNM Faculty Senate cut the minimum number of credit hours required to graduate from 128 to 120 at a meeting at the end of last month.
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Food bank will help students make ends meat
Ardee Napolitano | February 19Starting Thursday, some UNM students may be able to ditch the instant ramen diet at least once a month. The University has cooperated with the Roadrunner Food Bank to launch the Lobo Food Pantry, a mobile food warehouse that would provide free healthy food to UNM students monthly.
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UNM Crime Briefs
February 19On Feb. 15, an officer was dispatched to the UNM Psychiatric Center in response to an agitated and combative man tearing up one of the rooms, according to a police report. The medical staff told the officer that the patient had damaged the door to the holding room and punched a hole in the wall;
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ASUNM asks students to opine on scholarship
Ardee Napolitano | February 18As this year’s state legislative session enters its last week, UNM community members continue to voice grievances about increasing the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s GPA requirements. About 100 people gathered in the Student Union Building ballrooms for a Scholarship forum Monday afternoon.
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Children’s choir brings love from Uganda
Mariam Ajala | February 18Children in brightly colored gomesis sail seamlessly across the stage. The kids leap, sing and chant to a crowd of more than 100 people in a small church. The Watoto Children’s Choir, an evangelist group from Africa, dances and sings to raise awareness of orphaned children in Uganda.
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Lobo Spotlight: Dorothy Baca
Zachary Pavlik | February 18True to the various colorful personas she has assumed in the past, UNM professor Dorothy Baca proves to be a master of disguise. “I got into television; I did a lot of early rock and roll-like music videos. My brother and I were at one point designing for Bette Midler’s world tour, ‘Divine Madness,’” Baca said.
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Chillz suspends business due to theft, vandalism
Chloe Henson | February 17A local frozen custard joint was robbed Saturday night of money and valuables. Justin Carson, the owner of Chillz Frozen Custard located on Central Avenue in the University area, said he got a call Sunday morning from an emergency operator informing him that the door to his establishment was open.
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Students may lose say in fees
Ardee Napolitano | February 17Student leaders are striving to ensure that their constituents will continue to have a say in the majority of student fee allocations in the future. Officials from the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and the Graduate and Professional Student Association have teamed up
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November ballots fill Senate vacancies
Zachary Pavlik | February 17After various Associated Students of the University of New Mexico slates played their best cards in November’s senate election, fate would have it that the assembly got reshuffled.
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World briefs
Ardee Napolitano | February 17An explosion on a tourist bus in Sinai on Sunday killed three people, including the Egyptian bus driver and two South Korean tourists. According to Reuters, another 24 people were wounded by the bomb after it detonated inside or near the bus, security officials said.
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The Howl: Feb. 15 episode
February 15Check out this week's episode of The Howl, the Daily Lobo's news webcast.
