A group of UNM advertising students said they weren’t satisfied with the opportunities available to them at existing advertising firms, so they decided to create one of their own.
A debate over per diem rates for traveling UNM faculty and graduate students ended last week when the Board of Regents approved the “split check” policy. The policy allows travelers to claim federal per diem rates of up to $71 per day for meal reimbursements, but only part of that reimbursement will come from state-appropriated money.
Peace Studies professors in collaboration with Occupy Albuquerque protesters will hold teach-in sessions next week designed to give the community an idea of what Occupy Albuquerque stands for. Organizers held the first teach-in, “Intro to the Occupation,” on Tuesday. Desi Brown, who is pursuing a graduate degree in the Peace Studies program, helped coordinate the event.
The Board of Regents ruled Tuesday that employees making less than $50,000 per year will be eligible for a bonus. Employees haven’t been eligible for a recurring pay raise in three years, and this year saw a 1.75 percent decrease in what they’re required to pay into their retirement funds.
GetEQUAL, a grassroots organization that works to change anti-LGBTQ sentiments, protested Chick-fil-A on campus outside the bookstore on Tuesday.
Oct. 1 — Occupy Albuquerque protesters marched along Central Avenue in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
Protesters still occupied campus grounds as of late Monday night, Police showed up at midnight Sunday and told protesters they had to leave.
The sound of drums echoed across campus Monday as UNM’s Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group celebrated “Indigenous Day.” NASIRG co-chair and student Alyssa Begay said the group organized Indigenous Day events as an alternative to the nationally recognized Columbus Day.
At least 20 UNM and state police officers showed up at midnight Sunday with plastic zip handcuffs and canine units and informed the 30-40 Occupy Albuquerque protesters on campus they would have to leave the University.
Protestors outside UNM Bookstore on Saturday chanted “Tax the rich, end the war” in honor of the tenth anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan war.
Twenty-five runners braved the cold Saturday morning to participate in the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity’s first annual Autism Awareness Run at Tiguex Park.
Lobo Development officials told ASUNM they hope to drastically increase UNM’s on-campus housing. Lobo Development Board members Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and Walter Miller spoke to the senators about why they think on-campus housing benefits UNM students during a Sept. 28 ASUNM meeting. “We have to increase on-campus student housing because studies indicate that students do better if they work and live on campus,” Torres said.
UNM’s Student Health & Counseling services have begun a campaign encouraging students to get the flu shot before flu season hits.
UNM administrators released a statement to the media Wednesday telling Occupy Albuquerque protesters to apply for a permit to occupy main campus, but protesters said the administration didn’t inform them.
“Occupy Albuquerque” protestors braved the wet weather Tuesday night as they continued to protest in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, but UNM officials said protesters must get a permit before noon today if they plan to stay.
The amount of students attending Albuquerque Public Schools that don’t graduate is 37 percent and, of those, many have trouble earning their GEDs, getting jobs or attending college, GED Preparatory Program officials said.
The beginning of a new semester brings a high incidence of larcenies and thefts, UNM Police Department officials said. “It is a big problem,” UNMPD spokesman Lt. Robert Haarhues said.
Vernier Software & Technology awarded UNM $10,000 worth of choice chemistry equipment for a mobile laboratory that delivers scientific tools to middle and high schools. The UChem Teach Mobile lab brings chemistry lab equipment to eighth- through 12th-grade classrooms across New Mexico, and UNM chemistry teaching assistant Paul Hunt said the equipment grant will help update the labs. “The chemistry teaching labs were in dire need of renovation,” he said.
One of the Internet’s latest social networking sites, dimmi, is a mixture of Facebook and Match.com for people with mental illnesses or those acquainted with them to connect with others in the same boat. “Dimmi” means “tell me” in Italian, and the site, launched in January 2011, is being marketed to college students, project manager Caio Peluffo said.
UNM’s 3.4 percent budget cut for fiscal year 2011-2012 was approved in April 2010 but has only been in effect for the past three months. Now, departments across the University are starting to feel the strain. The University’s state funding has been cut $8.5 million across main and branch campuses.
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