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Regents approve main campus housing
Chelsea Erven | February 15The Board of Regents approved main campus housing plans Tuesday, ushering in a two-year period of dorm demolition and renovation.
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Duplicate text alerts confuse students
Hunter Riley | February 15The University tested its emergency alert system, LoboAlerts, on Monday, but students said they were confused by the multiple texts and e-mails they received about the test. Student Brandon See said he received the first text message three times saying that the alert was just a test.
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Bill: Voters must bring picture ID to polls
Shaun Griswold | February 15After a heated debate, the House Voters and Election Committee postponed a vote that will determine if New Mexicans should be required to show photo identification at voting polls on Election Day.
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Music-makers hit right note for a century
Alexandra Swanberg | February 15A good pair of lungs is required to sing for a century, and the UNM Choral program has 400 of them. It started in 1910 with 26 men and women and grew to 400 members.
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Structure’s ‘efficient lighting’ dims night sky
Alexandra Swanberg | February 15Lights glowing from the Yale Parking Structure make it difficult for University astronomers to search the skies from a nearby observatory. Professor Rich Rand, faculty overseer for the observatory, said parking structure lighting has made it harder to see the stars in Albuquerque. “When they built the hospital that was bad enough, but this source is much worse,” he said.
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Area construction results in shuttle detour
Barron Jones | February 14The City of Albuquerque announced construction plans that will force UNM’s south lot shuttle to use an alternate route. Beginning Feb. 21, all traffic on Yale Boulevard between Avenida Cesar Chavez and Lead Avenue will shut down as crews begin ripping up concrete in order to install a drainage system under the road.
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Random acts of kindness help students connect
Kallie Red-Horse | February 14Warm your heart by acting kindly this Valentine’s day. Today marks the first day of Random Acts of Kindness Week, and UNM is celebrating with donation drives for the Albuquerque Rescue Mission and Cuidando los Niños. An act of kindness is something as simple as walking a friend’s dog, Kimmerly Kloeppel, Interim Dean of Students said.
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Senator proposes 16-month window for Lottery
Shaun Griswold | February 14The House Education Committee will debate today the feasibility of extending students’ time to apply for the Lottery Scholarship. Opponents of the bill, including ASUNM, said tinkering with the Lottery Scholarship fund is unwise because the fund is facing financial implications that could gut the program. Legislation says high school graduates must immediately enroll in college in order to qualify for the scholarship, but the bill, if passed, would allow students a 16-month period to enroll in college after graduating high school. The measure’s sponsor, Rep.
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ASUNM votes for free condoms
Ruben Hamming-Green | February 11ASUNM voted to install free condom distribution points around the campus in an effort to promote safe sex. Sen. Greg Golden said the resolution reminded him of his freshman year at UNM. “They used to have more access to condoms,” he said. “I remember when I was a freshman they were, well, everywhere.” ASUNM Sen. Jaimee Perea, a community health major, introduced the resolution to have condom distribution points at the Student Health Center, at registers in the SUB and in the SRC commons. Perea said the distribution goal is to help curb the prevalence of STDs.
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WebCT victim of phishing scam
Chelsea Erven | February 11by Chelsea Erven cerven@unm.edu E-mails that appear to be from UNM may be from an imposter “phishing” for personal information. Physics Department Information Analyst Tom Hess sent the department an e-mail Feb.
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Egyptian student: Don’t forget protesters
Hunter Riley | February 10Student Randa Elbih said she wishes she could join her family members who have taken to the Egyptian streets.
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Judge: Professor can keep money
Shaun Griswold | February 10A district judge rejected a University attempt to take back $11,000 in unemployment pay from former English professor Joy Harjo, ruling that the administration effectively forced the Native American author to leave her post.
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Sharpton to talk about labor, civil rights
Elizabeth Cleary | February 10Famed racial justice and human rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton will give a free and open-to-the-public speech today at the SUB to advocate for the labor movement. Sharpton’s speech, “The Role of Government,” is sponsored by African-American Student Services and serves as the kick-off event for New Mexico’s African-American Day on Friday.
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Snowpocalypse could be costly
Chelsea Erven | February 10Because of bone-chilling weather, UNM kept its doors closed much of last week, but repair expenses and employee overtime will cost the University some cold, hard cash. Physical Plant Director Mary Vosevich said the University should determine the costs of the freeze early next week.
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Senator: Grad students deserve benefits
Shaun Griswold | February 8The Senate introduced a bill that would grant graduate assistants employee status and allow them full benefits, but the bill’s sponsor said he doesn’t think the state is in a financial position to pass it. SB 400, sponsored by Sen.
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C&J students looking for a seat
Kallie Red-Horse | February 8Just as journalists nationwide are scrambling for jobs in a changing market, UNM journalism students are scrambling for class spots in a transitioning department. Fewer faculty members, an influx of students and accreditation requirements are straining required class availability for journalism students.
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Saturday parking meters go unenforced
Kallie Red-Horse | February 8Parked at a city parking meter on a Saturday? If you keep your quarters, no one will ticket you. Even though Albuquerque meters instruct drivers to pay 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Housing reps search for input
Chelsea Erven | February 8Sign-in sheets show that fewer than 40 students attended Lobo Development Corporation’s open-housing forums held since March, prompting officials to try a different approach. The University created a housing blog that allows students to track housing updates, ask questions and communicate more effectively, since just 112 people attended the LDC’s 17 forums, according to documents obtained from the Office of the Custodian of Public Records.
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Show’s casting call sets bar too high
Elizabeth Cleary and Shaun Griswold | February 8“America’s Next Top Model” might have walked the catwalk at the SUB Atrium on Monday evening — if she was tall enough to reach the stage. More than 80 women auditioned for the hit reality series at the casting call hosted by Albuquerque’s local CW affiliate, but dozens of others who showed up were told they didn’t measure up.
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Student can finally tell about being gay in military
Andrew Beale | February 7Before she was honorably discharged, Leasa Medina would go out with her girlfriend and tell people about her “cousin” in the military. Her “cousin’s” experiences serving in the Middle East were really her own, since before the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was repealed, service members were prohibited from being openly gay. “Up until recently, it’s considered a dishonorable discharge if you’re found to be gay in the military, which is the equivalent of a felony, and any money you owe the military, like any tuition assistance, you have to pay back,” she said. Medina is now finishing the last semester of a psychology degree at UNM, and she works at the Women’s Resource Center on campus, where she recently started a Women’s Veterans group with the center’s support. “There’s a lot of abuse that goes on with women when they’re deployed.
