Susan McKinsey, UNM’s director of communications, has spent decades working for and with the media. Her impending retirement has now made her the subject of the news, which she said feels odd. “I don’t like the idea of me being the news,” she said.
A handful of nickels may not save the world, but it adds up. The Staff Environs Committee’s Change for Trees program collects spare change to keep UNM green. The program began three years ago when UNM took pruning shears to the landscaping budget. “Keeping the campus green is important to us,” said Karen Wentworth, co-chair of the Staff Environs Committee. “As a committee, we were really bothered by how battered the campus looked, and we thought more trees were the answer. There’s a lot of concrete on campus, and we thought that if we could plant more trees and get them to grow, that would at least provide shade.”
The UNM Board of Regents on Tuesday officially adopted the University’s Consolidated Master Plan, a 10-15 year development plan intended to help UNM accommodate a projected 10-year state population growth of more than 1 million people. The plan includes increased on-campus housing and a proposed recreation center that would be located along Central Avenue and connected to Johnson Gym via an elevated walkway.
The UNM Alumni Association will celebrate the grand reopening of Hodgin Hall, now the UNM Alumni Center, with an evening of music, food and history. Nearly 120 years ago, Hodgin Hall was the entirety of UNM. It stood isolated on a hill two miles from downtown Albuquerque and housed classrooms, faculty and administrative offices.
Time changes everything: technology, fashion, transportation, the way people think and university campuses. A lot can change in 100 years, but UNM’s 1908 graduating class preserved pieces of their world in a time capsule.
Last week, The Daily Lobo surveyed more than 100 students regarding which buildings on campus they thought were the most poorly maintained. Ortega Hall topped the list with 23 percent of the vote, followed by the Art Building with 17 percent and Marron Hall with 15 percent.
Recent budget cuts have left graduate students with fewer options for student employment and loans, but a UNM initiative aims to help them counteract these setbacks. The Graduate Student Funding Initiative (GSFI) offers nearly 50 educational sessions to help students identify sources of funding, prepare résumés and build budgets.
While dozens of on-campus skateboarders roll by pedestrians on their way to class every day without incident, occasional accidents do occur.
Local author and historian Orlando Romero, who spoke at UNM last week, told students they would do well to take a lesson from activists of the 60s.
The UNM community, along with the rest of the nation, watched in shock 10 years ago as terrorists attacked the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on Sept. Classes were canceled and students crowded around television screens at the Frontier Restaurant and Saggios, according to the Sept. 12, 2001 issue of the Daily Lobo. “It’s hard to offer the University’s reaction to Tuesday morning’s events, but I think everyone feels the same way — this is one of the most enormous human tragedies ever in our history,” said the former-UNM President Bill Gordon the day after the attacks.
The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is nearly upon us, and the tragedy’s profound effects on our national psyche still linger. Among the most pronounced of these, I think, is the collective negative opinion our country has of Islam. This phenomenon is evident every day on the 24-hour news stations.
Some UNM students say websites like ratemyprofessor.com (RMP) are useful for helping them choose which instructors to take classes with, but faculty argue that the system isn’t as useful as it seems.
Despite stores such as Borders and Newsland closing up shop, UNM’s Zimmerman Library still has plenty of chapters left in an increasingly digital world. UNM Libraries associate dean Nancy Dennis said that 1.8 million people visited UNM’s four libraries last year, and Zimmerman topped the list. “We’re already seeing gate counts here in Zimmerman of over 6,000 people a day,” Dennis said. “It’s a little bit more than last year, but it’s a very busy place.”
A Sept. 4 Albuquerque Journal article entitled Interim Provost Chaouki Abdallah’s efforts to reorganize the Provost’s Office a “cost saving plan” that had “backfired,” but Abdallah said his plans have worked as he expected. Abdallah sent out a University-wide e-mail Wednesday in hopes of telling his side of the story.
An Anderson School of Management class turned itself into a real-world marketing firm for students to gain hands-on experience while simultaneously serving the community.
Students who wish to obtain graduate degrees face more competition and more challenges since last year when applying and attending graduate school. Terry Babbitt, UNM vice president for enrollment management, said he estimates graduate applications have increased nearly 2 percent and registration for new graduate students has increased nearly 5.5 percent since fall 2010. But at a time when graduate degrees are becoming more important, students are facing more rigorous admissions tests and a political climate where funding for education is dwindling. In August, the Education Testing Service announced changes to the Graduate Record Examination General Test (GRE), which is a critical component to many graduate applications.
The homeless population in the UNM area has led some students, faculty and staff to feel unsafe, but City and University officials said policies and programs exist to keep the campus secure and take care of those in need. UNM student Joshua Niforatos sent the Daily Lobo a picture on Aug. 29 of a homeless man, whom he said was drunk, urinating on the side of the Communication and Journalism building that faces the bus stop.
ASUNM heard a proposal last Wednesday that encourages reducing the number of Lobo Basketball tickets available to each student. Kim Goodson, business manager for UNM Ticketing Services, said each year students can pick up tickets on scheduled distribution dates. Each student is allowed four tickets, provided he or she has a valid student ID and can verify he or she is enrolled in at least six credit hours. UNM Associate Director Brad Hutchins said the measure, which would reduce the number of sales to two per student, would ensure more students have a chance to get tickets.
The UNM Art Building is slowly sinking. The three-story building, which is home to the art department’s faculty, staff, labs and classrooms, has experienced worsening structural problems for nearly two years, according to art professor Adrienne Salinger. “The Art Building doesn’t appear to be structurally sound,” she said. “Several of the workers who insisted on anonymity were shocked that we are still occupying the building in this condition when I spoke with them over the last couple weeks.” Salinger said the building is dangerous to students and staff.
Las Cruces — Experts in economics, health care, national security, technology and education converged at the fourth annual Domenici Conference where they painted a bleak future for America.They worked with students from UNM and three other state schools to explore critical problems facing the nation and ways to fix them.
Solutions by The State News
