On Wednesday night, a few UNM students will celebrate their identities through art. About 80 students taking a Freshman Learning Community course will present their poetry, posters and digital artwork at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, said Chicano and Chicana Studies Department Director Irene Vasquez.
Students have signaled interest in starting a bike-share program on campus. According to the results of a recent bike-share survey conducted by ASUNM’s Green Fund Committee earlier this semester, 81.7 percent of respondents said they would like to see such a program on campus. 18.3 percent said they wouldn’t.
Right before Thanksgiving break, property crime on campus was on the rise. UNM Police Department Operations Lt. Trace Peck said that the number of backpack and bicycle thefts increased by more than half the usual number the week before the four-day weekend. But he said the department saw this coming.
Catholic Croats flocked to the capital city Zagreb Sunday to vote on a referendum that would ban same-sex marriage in the Balkan state. Because the Croatian constitution does not define marriage, the referendum seeks to change the constitution to define marriage as a “union between a man and a woman,” Agence France-Presse reported.
The bell rang and the second round began. Alpha Tau Omega member Callen Lovett got fired up. Noticing that his opponent, Sigma Chi member Jeff Doerr, wasn’t guarding his head enough, Lovett delivered a massive blow to Doerr’s face. Doerr’s leg jiggled.
Ginaveve Pepin, a freshman studying architecture at UNM, said she was charged by the University for a summer class that she didn’t have to take. When she went to the financial aid One Stop office at Mesa Vista Hall to clear up her account, she said she felt uneasy.
For Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, the future of that nation’s economy depends on investments in technological infrastructure in his community. “Navajo residents live in a remote area,” he said. “Their roads are bad, they have very poor connectivity. When someone gets hurt, they call 911, and by the time the person gets there, the person is gone.
Craig Kief munched on a slice at a pizza party in the headquarters of UNM’s Configurable Space Microsystems and Innovations and Applications Center Tuesday night. As the clock struck 6 p.m., Kief’s and other attendees’ gaze stayed frozen on a large screen.
UNM and PNM Resources, Inc. have teamed up in their search for an efficient and low-price energy systems. The two organizations announced last week that they would collaborate on the Cloud-based Energy Resource Scheduling (CERES) Initiative.
The Traditional Winter Spanish Market is coming to Old Town this weekend in celebration of 25 years of traditional arts and entertainment. The event, typically held in Santa Fe Plaza, will be held for the first time in Albuquerque and is an offshoot of the larger Summer Spanish Market.
UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association Lobby Committee is working to pass new state legislation that would give recent graduates a leg up on funding for their in-state businesses. The Statewide Entrepreneurial Economic Development (SEED) Act would create an appropriation for investments on behalf of the state by using a portion of funding from the state
Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour passed a law on Sunday that outlawed public gatherings of more than 10 people without government permission in an effort to limit protests in the country. The new law requires protesters to request a protest permit three days in advance
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico senate passed an emergency resolution on Wednesday concerning the Lottery Scholarship. In a full senate meeting, ASUNM senators enacted a resolution that calls for Gov. Susana Martinez to give a special message that recommends all legislation on the Scholarship to be considered during the state Legislature’s 30-day session. The legislative session begins in January.
UNM might be able to continue development of Innovate ABQ for much cheaper by next month. Mesa del Sol developers have offered the Aperture Center, a 78,000-square-foot building in east Albuquerque, to UNM for $4.5 million as part of the University’s push for a two-site Albuquerque business and innovation hub.
As the debate whether to prioritize students’ merit or need when it comes to the Lottery Scholarship continues, some state lawmakers have officially refuted raising the grade point average requirements for the scholarship.
Protesters in black lined up along the sidewalk outside the Bernalillo Public Schools District Office in a rally Wednesday as part of a statewide movement by teachers and other education employees to protest a new teacher evaluation system.
UNMH will not negotiate with a union of employees that filed a complaint regarding mandatory flu vaccines for hospital staff last month, according to a counter-statement filed by the hospital. In the counter-statement to the UNM Labor Management Relations Board on Monday, UNMH argues that “the union wholly fails to demonstrate that the union or its members will suffer irreparable injury by implementation of the policy”
Convicted serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection, according to CNN. The execution was delayed because of court appeals. Franklin, a reported white supremacist, was sent to death row for the murder of Gerald Gordon
On Nov. 14, the parent of a UNM student called the UNM Police Department with regard to a possible larceny. A 2006 Hummer, which the student borrowed from her parent that day, was missing a spare tire valued at more than $1,000, according to the report.
Albuquerque voters snubbed a citywide ordinance in the city’s runoff election Tuesday that proposed to prohibit late-term abortions. Voters took to the polls to weigh in on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance, which would have banned abortion after 20 weeks, excepting situations in which the mother’s life is endangered by the pregnancy.
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