Student groups expressed concerns to the Student Fee Review Board (SFRB) about the dates for the board’s funding hearings after the board decided to hold those meetings during winter break.
UNM staff member Isabella Oms drove away from the east parking lot at Woodward Center on Nov. 15 and noticed her car was driving “weird.” According to the UNMPD report, Oms discovered both tires on the right side of the vehicle were cut and flat.
The New Mexico Legislative Lottery Success Scholarship is expected to run out by Fiscal Year 2014, and members of the University said changes should be made to the program to ensure scholarship funding remains available.
Student organizations that host events in the SUB cannot bring in their own food. According to the SUB’s Room Reservation Policy for chartered on-campus organizations, only Chartwells Catering and Campus Dining Services can provide food for events held in the building’s meeting rooms.
For the first time since 2009, two UNM students were selected as finalists for the Rhodes scholarship. Kandis Wright and Student Regent Jacob Wellman had their final interviews a week ago in Colorado Springs, Colo., where award recipients were announced.
Today, UNM students will have an opportunity to weigh in on the University’s proposal to address the solvency issue of the New Mexico Legislative Lottery Success Scholarship.
UNMPD was dispatched to George Pearl Hall on Nov. 6 in response to a theft in the drafting department. According to the police report, UNM student Samuel Escoto left his laptop locked in a desk at 3:15 p.m. that day, and when he returned for it at 4 p.m., he discovered the lock had been pried open and the laptop was stolen.
UNM President Robert Frank looks to change the University’s budget model to a system that would require each department to depend on the money it generates.
As part of his goals as the new president, UNM President Robert Frank plans to establish a College of Public Health that will offer undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees to students.
UNM honors professor Chris Holden said he looks to video games as a teaching tool. Holden is an advocate for education through video games and mobile games and has held discussions with students and faculty members throughout the semester about games in the classroom.
UNM President Robert Frank, who earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from UNM, is the first University alumnus to serve as president.
Pro-Palestine protesters rallied Friday in opposition to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, chanting “Palestine will live on forever.”
Organizations that request funding from the Student Fee Review Board will have to make their cases at hearings held over winter break.
The Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) passed a resolution calling for the University to require a three-credit diversity course be added to the requirements for an undergraduate degree.
Robert Frank will be inaugurated on Sunday as the 21st president of UNM. Frank’s inauguration ceremony will take place along with the unveiling of a giant U in front of Hodgin Hall. Michelle McRuiz, managing editor of the UNM Alumni Association’s magazine “Mirage,” said the statue was a gift from the association in an effort to strengthen campus pride.
Freshmen who begin attending the University in fall 2014 may be required to take a U.S. and global diversity course.
Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mesa Review Nora Hickey said that in the publication’s 29 years, its annual issue never went without a print edition, until now.
With winter break just a month away, students may be going home or on vacation, but airfare can be expensive during the holidays. And when you tack on baggage fees, it takes an even bigger toll on your wallet.
The ASUNM Senate welcomed six new members Wednesday night. The RISE slate, the only slate to run this semester, dominated the race. Nine out of RISE’s 10 candidates won a seat.
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