Congress ground to a halt Tuesday morning, but a UNM official said campus life should carry on as usual. UNM Interim Vice President of Human Resources Jewel Washington said the effect of the shutdown on the University is dependent upon how long it lasts.
Students will not be able to cast their ballots on campus in this year’s mayoral election on Tuesday. Walter Miller, associate vice president for Student Life, said students can usually vote during elections in the Student Union Building.
UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association is working to make applying for the grants it offers easier for Spanish-speaking students. GPSA has been working on a project to translate grant-related documents into Spanish and may eventually enable graduate students to apply for grants in the language.
On Sept. 20, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to Coronado Hall regarding students smoking marijuana. According to the report, a resident adviser told the officer upon arrival that during a hallway check, she smelled the odor of marijuana outside a certain room.
Having cycled through powerful wind gusts for one week now, Davis Tucker says he’s learned that men should not be too afraid to seek aid from others. “The last three days I’ve spent three feet off the back of the mechanic’s van,” he said.
Shortly before presenting Innovate ABQ to the University’s Board of Regents, UNM President Robert Frank traveled out of state to gather inspiration for the proposed business and research hub. On Sept. 3, Frank took a day trip to Scottsdale, Ariz. to examine Arizona State University’s innovation center, SkySong.
UNM alumnus and former Lobo basketball player Michael Cooper received the Living Legend award from the University’s Black Alumni Chapter Friday night at the Centennial Engineering Auditorium. After playing for UNM from 1976 to 1978, Cooper was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers where he started his path to become a legend.
A tall, smartly dressed man crosses his left leg over his right as the woman next to him begins to play a cover of “Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” by Jason Webley on her ukulele. The first few chords play, and the man lifts his microphone and begins to sing the lyrics to a crowd of about 120.
For the first time in the televised Albuquerque mayoral election debates, candidates’ attentions flowed to the issue of water resources and drought in the city. The final televised debate of the mayoral race was hosted Monday night by New Mexico PBS.
UNM placed no. 181 in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of best colleges this year, down from 179 from last year. How do you feel about this?
Abortion was the hot topic of the second of three televised Albuquerque mayoral candidate debates of the season. In a debate hosted by KOB Sunday morning, candidates discussed whether they support the late-term abortion ban that is going to be on the ballot in November’s runoff elections.
When Priscila Poliana assumed the presidency of UNM’s graduate and professional student government in May, she already knew she wanted to do something about the website of the bursar’s office. At a GPSA meeting Saturday morning, Poliana outlined issues with the site and reported on the progress she had made with the University administration to fix them.
Keeping up with yearly fluctuations in numbers, the number of motor vehicle thefts and burglaries reported in 2012 has changed yet again. According to the UNM Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released by UNM’s Police Department last week, there were 38 reported cases of motor vehicle theft in calendar year 2012.
Those nice women in purple who have been injecting anti-flu vaccines in students’ arms are not just doing it for fun. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, flu season can start as early as October.
Gold and silver stars made of metallic paper twinkled near the ceiling of the SUB Atrium as UNM kicked off Homecoming Week on Monday. The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico’s Lobo Spirit Committee planned the annual weeklong fete.
UNM student Tanley McMullan spent the past week tending to buckets of mealworms in her living room, taking her duck Daisy for leashed walks and campaigning for UNM’s homecoming queen. “It’s just so fun,” she said. “It’s fun, fun, fun.”
Student representatives have devised an easy way for students to speak to their student government. At an Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate meeting Wednesday night, the Outreach and Appointments Committee outlined its plan for the Student Input Forum
On Sept. 13, UNMPD received a call from a woman who lives near the UNM area about a black sport utility vehicle “driving erratically” on the grass west of Ortega Hall. According to the police report, the woman saw the van hit an “unknown fixed object.”
Members of UNM’s Women’s Resource Center gathered in a tent at Smith Plaza Wednesday morning amid a crowd of homecoming king and queen wannabes. But WRC members were not there to ask for people’s votes.
The testosterone will flow at this weekend’s UNM Friends of Dance Alumni concert. Though the cast of the performances is an even balance between men and women, each piece was choreographed by men alone.
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