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.
After more than a year of discussion, UNM Hospital has yet to settle on a solution to its high occupancy rate. William Sparks, executive director for communication and marketing at UNM Health Sciences Center, said UNM officials began to focus on the issue late in 2011. He said the debate began because the occupancy rate at UNMH exceeds typical levels.
Local pornography film festival Pornotopia will be showing off the best in independent pornographic flicks after being stalled out for nearly four years, said Molly Adler, co-owner of Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center and co-founder of Pornotopia.
After decades, UNM’s art arena reopens to showcase student projects, and to vie against each other for prizes. Paintings, photographs and other artworks were displayed in the John Sommers Gallery in the Art Building Friday night as part of a juried art exhibit.
UNM slipped two spots on an annual best universities list, but some university officials have shrugged off the ranking. U.S. News and World Report ranked the University as number 181 in the 2014 edition of its Best Colleges Rankings.
For about two decades, Jerome Romero has been raising awareness of the dangers of consuming alcohol during pregnancy. As program manager for UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, Romero focuses on preventing fetal alcohol syndrome,
On Sept. 14, the Associated Student of the University of New Mexico organized a summit in which state and student officials convened at the Student Union Building to discuss possible solutions to the Lottery Scholarship solvency issue. If you could attend a similar summit, what ideas would you suggest?
Red balloons floated over a parallel parking space filled with chairs and tables Downtown as UNM students converted the space into a seating area last week.
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