UNM and Bernalillo County have kicked off renovations to the UNM North Golf Course. Maggie Hart Stebbins, chair of the Bernalillo County Commission, said reconstruction on the golf course started Monday.
UNM students showed up in force to voice their displeasure at what they believed was a lack of representation regarding the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s solvency issue at Wednesday night’s Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate meeting.
For the second time this semester, police are investigating racially motivated graffiti in the dorms. On Feb. 5, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to Coronado Hall in reference to a report of criminal damage to property. According to the police report, “unknown offenders etched ‘fuck white people’ along with possible gang symbols resembling Sureños 13
By next week, UNM’s School of Engineering will seek new leadership. This week, UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah said he had decided to relieve current engineering Dean Catalin Roman of his position. “I decided to replace him due to a divergence of opinions on changing direction for the school of engineering,” Abdallah said.
On Friday afternoon, police responded to a call regarding potential misconduct, said UNMPD Public Information Officer Tim Stump. A female student was studying in Mesa Vista Hall, when an East-Indian man came up to her and asked for directions. After she gave them to him, he held out his hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
A UNM organization insists that the use of the term “illegal” in reference to people offends certain students on campus. Ramiro Rodriguez, “our-storian” and finance chair for MEChA de UNM, said he is opposed to people using the term “illegal” when referring to undocumented immigrants.
Despite a delay with the regents’ vote on Innovate ABQ at a meeting in December, the project continues to progress. At the first UNM Board of Regents meeting of this semester Tuesday, UNM Director of Real Estate Thomas Neale told the regents that project leaders and various city institutions are setting up an environmental agreement deal with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
On Feb. 2, an officer was dispatched to the Chama building in the Casas del Rio complex in response to a reported burglary. Roommates living in a double room told police that they had left their room door open slightly while one was taking a shower and one was in the bathroom.
The distribution of cards by the Associated Students of New Mexico during UNM Day in the state legislature last week is the cause of complaints among students and members of a local organization. Virginia Necochea, a UNM graduate student and member of the New Mexico Coalition of Equity and Justice, said the cards misrepresented the UNM student body’s support
A new survey suggests drug and alcohol use among New Mexico college students isn’t as high as it was five years ago. The New Mexico Higher Education Prevention Consortium released the results of an annual survey measuring the prevalence of alcohol and drug use among the state’s university students.
Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senator Shayla King said the undergraduate student senate could use more minority members. “At this point, I feel there is a fair amount of diversity,” she said. “I feel like we can use more. I feel like we should have at least another male African American senator. That would help a lot.”
Due to changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, the UNM Hospital has decided to extend the availability of the UNM Care Program for another year. At a UNMH Board of Directors meeting on Friday, UNMH CEO Steve McKernan said thousands of New Mexicans were affected by the Affordable Care Act.
The graduate student government made a case for re-blocking tuition on Thursday. At a UNM Board of Regents’ Academic Student Affairs and Research Committee meeting, Matthew Rush, chief of staff of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, presented a recommendation to provide fixed tuition rates for students taking 12 credit hours or more.
The Copenhagen Zoo put down Marius, a healthy two-year-old giraffe, on Sunday in front of an audience to prevent inbreeding of giraffes in the facility. Zoo staff killed Marius using a bolt pistol and skinned him in front of the crowd before feeding his carcass to the zoo’s lions, according to the Associated Press.
Freshman Rebekah Bibb is no stranger to moving. Raised in an Army family with four other siblings, Bibb lived in Virginia, Alabama, Washington, Oregon and several towns in New Mexico before her moved to Santa Fe, just in time for her to enter kindergarten.
Now that the deadline for introducing new legislation has passed, state legislators must now begin debate on a large number of bills. Below is a breakdown of four bills relating to higher education, transparency and economic development, including their sponsors, topics and locations in the legislative process.
Cinnamon Burton had just finished doing her laundry in the Laguna 2 dormitory last Friday. She had no idea that upon returning to her dorm, she would see that someone had scrawled a racial slur on a white board on one of her suite-mate’s doors.
SANTA FE – The last senate bill to be introduced in this year’s legislative session reached the New Mexico Senate floor by the end of UNM Day. And it came in time to address a statewide higher education issue.
Three men and a woman were arrested with more than 350 bags of heroin on Tuesday evening in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
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