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March 2Authorities say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly bringing a BB gun onto an elementary school campus in Albuquerque.
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Employees could foot $6.2m health care shortfall
Miriam Belin | March 2UNM employees may have to foot a projected multi-million dollar shortfall in the University’s health plan.
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Fee reserve loses funding plan
Nathan Farmer | March 2The account the Student Fee Review Board uses to fund one-time allocations to student organizations has no way of generating new funds.
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ROTC protocol bans flying Pan-African flag
Avicra Luckey | March 2In past years the Air Force ROTC raised the Pan-African flag in front of Scholes Hall every morning during the month of February to celebrate Black History Month
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Photo Essay: Swing dancers
March 1Sophomore architecture student Brandon Gassaway has been swing dancing for three years. A swing course at UNM piqued his interest and he decided to pursue it as a hobby in 2009.
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Ariz. bans ‘Bless me, Ultima,’ NM students take action
March 1An Arizona law that effectively shut down ethnic studies programs at K-12 schools across the state in 2010 has spurred UNM students to build an underground library of banned books.
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Students risk torture, jail to pursue education
Megan Morris | February 29UNM student Flora Kiyan earned a degree in Iran by taking classes in living rooms and basements.
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Continuing Ed rife with learning
Gabriel Segovia | February 29Whether you’ve always wanted to learn how to prepare East Indian cuisine or navigate rapids in a kayak, UNM Continuing Education has a wealth of courses in which both students and nonstudents can participate.
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Show me how to: Donate eggs
Avicra Luckey | February 28Women interested in egg donation can earn up to $4,000 and help individuals struggling to conceive said Sheila Delelles, in-vitro fertilization coordinator at the Center for Reproductive Medicine of New Mexico.
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Jury finds in favor of UNM in $1.5 m lawsuit
Luke Holmen | February 28UNM professor Sharon Warner lost her $1.5 million breach of contract lawsuit against the University on Monday.
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MWC bus trip fuels charity work
Nathan Farmer | February 28For the third year in a row, Lobo fans have the chance to support their basketball team, give to a local charity and take an affordable vacation.
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Greek Week aids local youth
Keila Gutierrez | February 28In honor of Greek Week, UNM’s Greeks organized drives and fundraisers to benefit Albuquerque’s youth — but students don’t have to be Greek to help.
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Protest turns violent
Elizabeth Cleary | February 27A talk hosted by the UNM Israel Alliance on Thursday turned violent, and footage from the incident has gone viral on YouTube. In the video, a group of protesters stand up and start chanting in the back of the anthropology lecture hall, where pro-Israel activist Nonie Darwish was in the middle of giving a talk.
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Renewed Yale Park occupation leads to arrests
Luke Holmen | February 27Four members of (un)Occupy Albuquerque were arrested shortly before 3 p.m. on Sunday after they refused to leave Yale Park. In a video posted by (un)Occupy members, protesters can be seen being arrested.
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NMPIRG: more fees needed
Miriam Belin | February 27If the Student Fee Review Board’s recommendation is approved by the President’s Strategic Budget Leadership Team, the New Mexico Public Interest Research group will endure a funding cut that NMPIRG representatives said will cripple the group’s ability to function.
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(un)Occupy protesters removed from Yale Park again
Staff Report | February 24(un)Occupy Albuquerque members attempted to reoccupy UNM’s Yale Park today, but about a dozen UNM police officers forced the group move to the sidewalk of Central Avenue.
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(un)Occupy students attacked during protest
Staff Report | February 24A group of UNM students, many of whom are members of (un)Occupy Albuquerque were physically assaulted after they protested during a lecture Thursday night. The group “mic checked” Nonie Darwish, author, human rights activist and daughter of Egyptian Army Leader Lieutenant General Mustafa Hafez while she was speaking on Israel’s involvement in the Arab Spring Movement.
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UNM Crime Briefs
Christopher Bartlett | February 24On Feb. 16, a UNMPD officer went to UNMH in response to a combative patient, a police report states. The patient was standing on the southwest corner of the ER entrance smoking a pipe.
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Driver who hit student speaks
Luke Holmen | February 24The driver of a truck that hit UNM student Wolfgang Scott-Cohen said police promised to keep him updated on Scott-Cohen’s condition. But, the driver said, he never received any notifications, not even after Scott-Cohen died.
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Club preps students for societal collapse
Nathan Farmer | February 24One UNM professor says a world without electricity and ravaged by natural disaster might not be too far off, and the UNM community needs a plan.
