In fall 2008 UNM Housing spent $206,000 of student rent money to install a card-swiping system at Redondo Village, but it remains offline nearly three years later.
The verdict is in. The Mountain West Conference on Monday suspended five UNM and four BYU baseball players after a heated exchange between UNM’s Quay Grant and BYU’s Chris Capper escalated into a bench-clearing brawl at the conclusion of Saturday’s matchup in Provo, Utah. The MWC reviewed tape of the brawl over the weekend before meting out discipline.
How do you beat UNM’s average football game attendance from 2010? Have an Easter bash at Lobo Stadium.
GPSA has a new council chair, Megan O’Laughlin. It was a tight race between candidates Shannon Crowley, Victor Lopez and O’Laughlin.
Data compiled by the city finds housing some of Albuquerque’s homeless is cheaper than leaving them on the streets.
UNM President David Schmidly will not return to the University when his contract expires. Schmidly announced he will not renew his contract Thursday morning in a University wide e-mail.
Students played with garbage during UNM’s third annual Sustainability Expo. As part of the expo, UNM Recycling hosted a trash-sorting competition.
Jaymie Roybal is the ASUNM president for the 2011-12 school year. Roybal, who ran on the Now slate, received 883 votes in the Wednesday’s election, 62 more than her opponent, Tim Mousseau, who ran on the New Day slate.
Beer and wine might be available for some fans attending UNM football and basketball games next season.
For the first time at UNM, two American Studies graduate students were awarded prestigious Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowships.
Carmen Alvarez-Brown is leaving the University to accept a vice president position at Cleveland State University. Brown begins her employment July 1, Cleveland State announced in a news release Wednesday.
Information Technologies will see roughly $2 million cut from its budget next year, but no one is getting fired. Instead, the department won’t hire replacements after full-time employees retire or quit.
What do you get when you combine advertising, public relations and marketing? Strategic communication is a new major in the communication and journalism department and will be available to students in the fall.
Provost Suzanne Ortega will resign from her position in June, and a committee to find her temporary replacement will publicly interview applicants starting next week. President Schmidly announced in his April 4 Monday Morning Message that Ortega opted out of a renewed contract with UNM to take a job offer back East. Schmidly appointed Faculty Senate President Richard Wood to chair the internal search committee for an interim provost. Wood said the committee will replaceme Ortega with a UNM faculty member. He said a joint effort between faculty and administration is crucial to the selection process. “That’s a really important improvement in shared governance of the University — to have the faculty and administration deeply connected as we look for a new provost,” he said.
The ages of sexual assault victims in New Mexico range from as young as 6 weeks to 90 years old, according to data compiled by the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico, and one in four women in the state will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
A Business and Economic Development report provides hard data that proves UNM’s significance to the state economy.
The UNM Police Department is reaching out to the community for leads in the only unsolved murder in campus history. Lisa Wortman’s body was found in a manhole June 1994 near The Pit.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution last week to create a harsher disciplinary system for faculty who violate University policy. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood announced the measure at the Board of Regents Audit Committee meeting Thursday.
ASUNM has a new chief of staff as of Wednesday night. The ASUNM Senate passed a measure 18-1-1 to replace former Chief-of-Staff Michael Thorning with freshman Christopher Romero.
Fifth-graders at Monte Vista Elementary school raced mini, balloon-powered racecars Thursday designed with the help of UNM engineering students.
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