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Nano step in cancer cure
Zach Gould | March 1The UNM Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories have taken one small step in the fight against cancer — a very, very small step.
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Grads want ASUNM to pay more for Times tab
Kallie Red-Horse | March 1GPSA tabled a proposal at Saturday’s meeting to co-sponsor a program aimed at providing students with free copies of the New York Times. ASUNM representative Greg Golden, who presented the co-sponsorship opportunity Feb.
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February Fireworks
Staff Report | February 28Flames and fireworks shoot from an unidentified car on Redondo Drive on Friday night, in this screen shot taken from a YouTube video. Student David Bjorklund said at 9:30 p.m. Friday he saw fire trucks and a flaming car near Redondo Drive. Five minutes later, he said green fireworks flew out of the car’s window, and later the trunk exploded with flames and fireworks. “It was ridiculous. It was like a whole car on fire,” said student Ethan Kellogg. Student George White recorded the incident and uploaded it to YouTube. The video had 308 hits as of 6 p.m. Sunday, and it can be accessed by searching for “UNM car fire” on YouTube.com
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SFRB chips in two cents on student fees
Hunter Riley | February 28The Student Fee Review Board is recommending that students keep their pocket change. The board recommended a 31-cent decrease over last year’s fees of $486.80 and will submit those recommendations to President David Schmidly on March 1. At Thursday’s meeting, the board voted to fund the nine recurring organizations with the same amount they received last year.
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Sustainability chair receives ‘highest honor’
Alexandra Swanberg | February 28The Board of Regents selected the endowed chair of a program designed to educate students on sustainable food and agriculture. The W.K.
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Dems: No funds for DUI blood tests
Shaun Griswold | February 28Gov. Susana Martinez witnessed another one of her legislative priorities fail Saturday in committee. House Bill 49, designed to prosecute individuals arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, would have allocated more funding for law enforcement officials to draw blood samples from those suspected of being under the influence of drugs.
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Future students may lose out on Lottery
Kallie Red-Horse | February 24The Lottery Scholarship fund could run dry, and if the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee’s prediction is correct, funds will dry up by 2014. The Lottery Fund continues to finance more students and pay more for each student because of tuition hikes.
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Senator: Make synthetic pot illegal
Shaun Griswold | February 24One state senator wants to outlaw synthetic marijuana in New Mexico. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort (R-Sandia Park) introduced a bill that would ban synthetic cannabinoids and fine anyone caught using or selling it. Beffort said children’s safety is at stake. “(Parents) might not know that their children are getting high on harmless-sounding products like incense, potpourri and bath salts,” she said.
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Faculty: Create dental dept.
Chelsea Erven | February 24The Faculty Senate unanimously approved a proposal to create a dental medicine department at UNM. UNM’s dental medicine programs are under the Health Science Center’s Department of Surgery but have grown large enough to need their own department, the proposal said. Most University Health Science Centers already have a dentistry department, UNM Chief of Dental Services Gary Cuttrell said. “We’re just bringing UNM’s health sciences up to the standard of most health science centers with a department of dentistry,” he said. Faculty Senate President-elect Tim Ross said UNM should have a dentistry department because dental hygiene programs don’t belong under a surgery department. “There’s already a dentistry sciences program, and for years it’s existed under the Department of Surgery at UNM …,” he said.
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SHAC reduces student counseling sessions
Barron Jones | February 24Student Health and Counseling placed tighter limits on services last month in order to meet increased demands on a stagnant budget. SHAC slashed counseling and psychiatric sessions available to students in a 12-month period from 20 to 12.
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Q&A session with flotilla raid survivor
Chelsea Erven | February 24Huwaida Arraf, an activist onboard one of the ships seized by the Israeli Defense Force in the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, spoke at the SUB on Tuesday.
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‘An overwhelming, calming sensation’
Kallie Red-Horse | February 24Student veterans have the chance to reduce their stress one pinprick at a time. The Veterans Acupuncture Clinic, a free service for UNM and CNM student veterans and their loved ones, holds sessions Tuesdays at 4 p.m.
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Grad student group suggests cutting admins, Athletics
Andy Beale | February 24A group of about 70 students, faculty and staff came together Wednesday to plan ways to force UNM’s administration to “focus on the University’s core academic mission.” Graduate Employees Together, or G.E.T., organized the meeting, which featured information on the University’s funding. The University’s tuition revenue has doubled in the last decade, because of tuition increases and a rise in enrollment, according to G.E.T.
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Students tell SFRB how to spend fees
Hunter Riley | February 22Students at Monday’s Student Fee Review Board town-hall meeting chatted with board members about how they want their fees allocated. SFRB member Heidi Overton said rising student fees are a cause for concern.
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Governor appoints two regents
Shaun Griswold | February 22If all goes according to plan, UNM’s Board of Regents will have two new members. On Tuesday, Gov.
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City: Neuter your pets to help ‘epidemic’
Chelsea Erven | February 22New Mexico’s animal shelters launched a spay-and-neuter initiative Tuesday to help combat animal overpopulation and euthanasia. Every day, 66 pets enter New Mexico shelters, Public Safety Director Darren White said during the Spay Day event at Albuquerque’s Eastside Shelter.
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Senate to confirm student regent
Shaun Griswold | February 22UNM will soon have a new member on the Board of Regents. Gov. Susana Martinez appointed Jacob Wellman to the student regent post Monday.
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Guv proposes slash in remedial funds
Alexandra Swanberg | February 22Gov. Susana Martinez proposed a $4.9 million cut in remedial education funds from the state’s colleges in order to focus on problems in the K-12 system that make remedial courses necessary.
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Web access receives high marks
Shaun Griswold | February 22UNM is at the top of its game in cyberspace. UNM’s web access and presence was ranked 76th out of 12,000 universities worldwide and 62nd out of North America colleges. UNM Website Administrator Matthew Carter said the quality of a university’s electronic content can factor into a student’s decision to attend UNM. “The ranking represents UNM has a fair amount of scholarly content and makes it readily available,” he said. Webometrics Rankings of World Universities, an initiative of Cybermetrics Lab, conducted the analysis of global universities’ web content.
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SFRB holds separate hearings
Hunter Riley | February 20Student Fee Review Board members couldn’t agree over whether a video camera should be allowed to record applicant hearings, so undergraduate and graduate members held separate sessions over the weekend. ASUNM board members met in one room of the College of Education Building, while GPSA board members deliberated next door.
