Many people found it difficult to access websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit on Wednesday after more than 500 websites “blacked out” in protest of SOPA and PIPA.
Greg Jackson, owner and head coach of Jackson-Winkeljohn Mixed Martial Arts, travels the world teaching martial arts to U.S.
Occupy New Mexico protesters greeted Gov. Susana Martinez with chants and jeers Tuesday as she stepped up to give her State of the State Address at the Roundhouse.
One UNM dean’s winter break vacation in Mexico ended with a life-threatening spinal cord injury. Jim Linnell, interim dean of the College of Fine Arts, was rushed to the UNM Trauma Center to undergo surgery Dec.
Robert Frank becomes UNM’s 21st president on June 1, and he said he plans to spend the first 100 days of his presidency listening to suggestions from the UNM community.
Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-Albuquerque) is a retired social worker serving his second term as a state senator. He serves the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as much of the UNM area. The Daily Lobo talked to Ortiz y Pino about how a bill becomes a law.
After several years of cuts, UNM may finally see a budget increase during this year’s legislative session. UNM is expected to receive a $9.9 million increase to its budget after the New Mexico House Appropriation Finance Committee selects a higher education budget recommendation on how the increased funds should be used.
New Mexico’s 50th legislative session begins today and will focus primarily on the state’s budget.
All the talk of politics gets complicated pretty fast, so here’s a rundown of the most common terms encountered in legislative talk.
(un)Occupy Albuquerque protesters set out on foot for Santa Fe early Saturday morning and arrived at the state Capitol yesterday evening, just in time for the first day of the legislative session.
The UNM Board of Regents unanimously selected Robert G. Frank on Jan. 4 to replace David Schmidly as the next president of UNM, but the decision elicited mixed responses from the UNM community.
The UNM Chess Club competed in its first intercollegiate championship in December and checked back into New Mexico with a Division III title.
The University of New Mexico Board of Regents unanimously selected Robert G. Frank to replace David Schmidly as the next President of UNM.
Presidential Finalist and UNM alum Robert Frank said Monday that he supports living wages for graduate and teaching assistants, even though he refused to support collective bargaining for graduate assistantships at Kent State University, where he is provost.
Presidential finalist Douglas Baker said during his on-campus forum Wednesday that recent NAACP complaints about discrimination against African Americans at UNM reflect bigger problems at the University. “From what I read, the frustration of African-American students, faculty, and staff seems to be a subset of an inability of the organization to talk about hard stuff,” he said.
This isn’t presidential finalist Meredith Hay’s first time as a top five finalist in a UNM presidential search, but she says she’s better prepared for the job this time around. In 2007 she made it to the final five in the presidential search that ended with President David Schmidly’s appointment. Hay said during her on-campus meet and greet with students and staff Tuesday that now she’s better suited to being UNM’s next president after helping the University of Arizona manage a $180 million cut in state appropriation during her tenure as provost there.
UNM presidential finalist Elizabeth Hoffman said during her campus visit Friday that she learned a lot from her controversy-ridden tenure as University of Colorado president, which ended in 2005.
The ASUNM Student Court found the 10 former ASUNM Senate candidates accused last month of misreporting campaign expenses guilty of all charges.
Ever wonder about the results of the end-of-semester professor evaluations students fill out? University officials said students will never know.
The Daily Lobo Photo Issue is a showcase of our photographers’ work. This semester our freelancer photographers each found one person in Albuquerque to focus their cameras on.
Solutions by The State News
