Students may have to wait nearly three months to get an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis and prescription from Student Health and Counseling.
The Athletics Department has almost four times more advisers per student than UNM undergraduate degree-granting colleges, and athletes enjoy access to clinical psychologists, learning specialists and student services.
UNM Battle of the Bands is not a win-at-all-costs affair, but an avenue for creating alliances. The battle showcases up-and-coming students who have less performance opportunities than established bands, said Bryan Jurus, director of Student Special Events.
UNMH reviewed its security policy after a Jan. 4 shooting incident, but the hospital didn’t make changes to its policy.
Someday, UNM Professor Derek Hamilton hopes to eliminate fetal alcohol syndrome. Using lab rats for his research, Hamilton studies the effects of prenatal ethanol consumption because many children suffer with a moderate version of FAS that can go undetected for years. “What you might see in a textbook about fetal alcohol syndrome, that’s full-blown FAS, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
In spring 1953, 600 people at the site and another 15 million television viewers watched an atomic bomb explode in the Mojave Desert. UNLV professor Andrew Kirk said scientists coordinated the atomic explosions to demonstrate the eerie effects on a house and the mannequins set up inside it. In the UNM alumnus’ lecture, “Doomtown: Picturing Home on the Nevada Test Site,” Kirk said the test site was thought to be nothing more than an empty space in Nevada, but in reality, hundreds of thousands lived there, including the Paiute and Western Shoshone tribes. “The West is a complicated place,” Kirk said. “What appeared to be blank spots are full of history. Empty landscapes, supposed waste lands, are loaded with human history of forgotten people and forgotten stories.” The day of the demonstration, Native American tribes protested at the site’s gate, but the scientists proceeded.
Ever since he was young, Jake Wellman was groomed for responsibility — and that doesn’t seem to be changing. The recently appointed student regent said having a seat on the board gives him a chance to be a “servant leader.” He said he was a Boy Scout in middle school, and that experience motivated him to take on leadership roles. “I learned the rewards of helping other people and doing a job that I had to get done well,” he said.
Patricia Caballero, GPSA Presidential Candidate, Community and Regional Planning Daily Lobo: What do you see as the biggest issues facing the graduate community? Patricia Caballero: How do we come together as a unified body, how do we identify goals and priorities, and how do we go after them strategically?
UNM regents spent eight hours listening and discussing, but not approving, budget proposals during Monday’s budget summit. The regents heard University members discuss tuition increases, department decreases and consolidation, instructor salaries and student services.
Organizers called for “emergency” protests in cities across the country to oppose the recent bombings in Libya, and Albuquerque was no exception. About a dozen members of the local chapter of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) met in front of the UNM Bookstore for Saturday’s protest.
A former general manager at KNME filed a lawsuit last week claiming the University terminated her for asking too many questions about why the station was missing more than $4 million. The plaintiff, Joanne Bachmann, claims that starting in 1992 UNM funneled millions of dollars from federal agencies and donors intended for the public TV station.
DL: What do you see as the biggest issues facing the graduate community? JD: One of my biggest concerns is about the direction of the University and what our focus is going to be.
After eight hours of deliberation at Saturday’s council meeting, GPSA approved proposed amendments to the GPSA constitution. Council Chair Megan McRoberts said 30 representatives worked to perfect the graduate student governing body’s constitution.
Daily Lobo: What do you see as the biggest issues facing the graduate community? Katie Richardson: Graduate research funding is a big one.
Student Chris Fullerton went to UNM president David Schmidly’s office March 23, hoping to talk about his flooded dorm. Instead, three UNMPD police officers escorted the student from Scholes Hall. Fullerton’s dorm flooded Jan. 3, after a pipe burst over winter break. Not satisfied with the University’s response, Fullerton said he decided to talk to Schmidly about the problem, but every time he asked to set up a meeting, he was told Schmidly was in a meeting, on vacation or at an appointment, he said. “I called about 15 or 20 times,” Fullerton said. Fullerton took matters into his own hands. He said he called Schmidly and told the office that he was Walt Miller, the vice president of Student Life. “They put me right through to him, and Schmidly answered 20 seconds later,” Fullerton said, Fullerton then told the president he was not Miller and asked to set up a meeting. Schmidly, Fullerton said, told him he was late for a doctor’s appointment and couldn’t meet.
The Board of Regents will discuss raising tuition costs, covering employee retirement benefits and work toward approving a 2011-12 operating budget during an open meeting today in the SUB Ballroom. On the table is a 5 percent tuition increase, on top of a 3.1 percent mandated by the State Legislature.
Traffic congestion will increase dramatically in the University area by 2035, according to a multi-county governmental agency’s projections. The Mid-Region Council of Government is accepting feedback on the 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan, said Terry Doyle, MRCOG Director of Transportation.
DL: What do you see as the biggest issues facing the graduate community? JC: The two issues that directly impact graduate students the most are the availability of research funds at the institutional and state level as well as the cost of attendance and the employment opportunities available to graduate students in New Mexico once they complete degrees. It hasn’t really been discussed by this University that graduate students here leave with more debt relative to their peers nationwide and encounter fewer employment opportunities in the state.
The odds a nuclear reactor will explode in Japan are minimal, and citizens there face slim chance of radiation side effects, according to the UNM section of the American Nuclear Society. “Everything indicates that the efforts to keep the reactors and spent fuel cool using sea water are succeeding,” ANS representative Margaret Root said.
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 30-foot tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 — and the aftershocks are affecting people as far away as UNM.
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