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No joke: Alford leaves UNM for UCLA
J.R. Oppenheim | March 30Yeah, it’s true. It wasn’t an early April Fools Day joke. Steve Alford has been hired as the new men’s basketball coach at UCLA
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Lobo Motorsports prepares for upcoming tournament with autocross competition fundraiser
Ardee Napolitano | March 29UNM’s motorsports team is gearing up for the largest collegiate engineering competition in the world. Lobo Motorsports is sponsoring an autocross competition Saturday at UNM’s G parking lot to fundraise for the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition to be held in June.
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GPSA presidential candidate profiles
John Tyczkowski | March 29Gias laid out a five-part platform for his GPSA campaign, which covers interdisciplinary research collaboration, graduate funding, community outreach, campus safety and diversity.
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Show Me How To: Pull April Fools’ Pranks
Antonio Sanchez | March 28Pranksters everywhere, unite. April Fools’ Day is just around the corner and the Daily Lobo has compiled a list of tips for this holiday of tricks.
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CNM reinstates Chronicle staff, returns newspapers to stands
Ardee Napolitano | March 28The CNM Chronicle will resume its production and impounded newspapers will return to newsstands this week now that the CNM administration has backed down from its decision to suspend the student newspaper.
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UNM moves one step closer to an Asian American Studies major
Jamillah Wilcox | March 28Julie Shigekuni has worked at UNM as the director of Asian American studies and said now is the time for a major change in student diversity on campus.
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Elizabeth Cleary | March 26On Tuesday, CNM administrators, in a ruthless and authoritarian display of censorship, stripped students of some basic constitutional rights.
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UNM Faculty senate hears arguments for diversity requirement
Tanya Prather | March 26Undergraduates may face another core curriculum requirement. UNM’s Division for Equity and Inclusion laid out its plan Tuesday afternoon at a Faculty Senate meeting for a proposed three-credit University-wide requirement.
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UNM Crime Briefs
Alexandra Swanberg | March 26At some time between March 13 and 18, an unknown suspect stole a UNM-issued Apple laptop from a UNM professor’s office.
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Lobo Spotlight: Jeffrey Knockel
Antonio Sanchez | March 26UNM graduate student Jeffrey Knockel has a penchant for solving difficult homework assignments. In high school, he programmed his TI-83 calculator to do his calculus homework. And in 2011, he was tasked with finding out how China is using Skype to spy on its citizens.
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UNM Labor Coalition petition attempts to address low faculty, staff and student pay
Rebecca Gonzales | March 26Richard Martinez has been on UNM’s custodial staff for seven years and has only seen a pay raise once.
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Latest vice president of research and economic development candidate offers sequester solutions
John Tyczkowski | March 26UNM’s latest candidate for a VP of research and economic development brings experience about how departments can weather sequestration cuts. Richard Billo is the second candidate for the position and spoke at an open forum Thursday.
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GPSA presidential hopefuls square off
Antonio Sanchez and John Tyczkowski | March 25GPSA presidential candidates Sharif Gias and Priscila Poliana debated for the final time this weekend before the April 1-4 elections.
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Lecturer: Men can end violence against women
Tanya Prather | March 25Men and women united Tuesday night for a lecture on how men and boys can be the solution to ending violence against women and girls. “Why Good Men Are Silent” was given by Ted Bunch, co-founder of A Call to Men.
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Race for GPSA president touches on campus safety
John Tyczkowski | March 22GPSA presidential candidates Sharif Gias and Priscila Poliana discussed on Thursday how they would have responded to the recent incidents of sexual battery and racism on campus.
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Lobo Men’s basketball coach Steve Alford awarded a 10-year contract, longest in UNM’s history
J.R. Oppenheim | March 21UNM and Steve Alford have reached an agreement for a new 10-year contract that will keep the men’s basketball coach at the school through 2023, the University announced Wednesday.
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Lobo Men’s basketball coach’s quarter-million dollar raise creates questions about faculty pay raises
John Tyczkowski | March 21UNM awarded a 10-year contract on Wednesday to men’s basketball head coach Steve Alford with a $240,000 salary increase, but some faculty are wondering about their own pay.
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First round of debates for GPSA candidates tackles graduate research funding, protection of minority groups on campus
John Tyczkowski | March 21Both candidates to be president of UNM’s Graduate and Professional Students Association agree that graduate students need more funding, but their differing academic backgrounds made for different approaches at the forum on Wednesday in the SUB atrium.
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UNM Crime Briefs
Alexandra Swanberg | March 20On March 6, a UNM student reported to UNMPD that three of his car tires had been punctured and flattened while the vehicle was parked near Hokona Hall.
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Board of Regents approves deal for developing three plots of South Campus land near the Pit
Tanya Prather | March 20Land on south campus is ready for business. After one-and-a-half years of deliberation, on March 11 the UNM Board of Regents approved a 74-year lease of land near The Pit.
