SANTA FE — The governor signed an Executive Order last week that some lawmakers say mirrors Arizona’s immigration policies. Gov.
UNM researchers and students are setting up radio telescope stations across the state that will open a window to unexplored parts of the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The Long Wavelength Array in the San Agustin Plains, the first of the stations, will be completed at the end of next month, Executive Project Director Lee Rickard said.
This weekend’s natural gas shortage may have impeded gas service in Taos, but Greater World Earthship Community residents had nothing to worry about.
Gov. Susana Martinez declared a State of Emergency in New Mexico because of a lack of gas, but some UNM classes faced a state of emergency of their own: a shortage of students. Sophomore Tristan Burman said at least a quarter of the students in her classes were absent Thursday following the two snow days, and she would have preferred staying home. “It was super cold when I woke up,” she said.
UNM canceled classes for the remainder of Thursday afternoon after a statewide gas shortage left residents throughout the state without heat. The University will remain closed through Sunday. At 2:30 p.m. Thursday, University Communications sent out an alert saying UNM was closed the rest of the day, after Gov. Susana Martinez declared a state of emergency. In an executive order, she called for “executive departments and agencies under the Office of the Governor, statewide, effective immediately, to release nonessential personnel in order to reduce energy demand on their facilities” through the end of the day.
UNM officials canceled classes for the remainder of the day and issued a two-hour delay for Friday’s classes due to weather concerns.
As Tuesday night’s temperatures in Albuquerque dropped to the lowest they’ve been in decades, the city’s homeless shelters were filled to capacity with people looking for a warm bed.
UNM students have come up with an energy-reducing plan to save the University nearly $600,000 per year.
For some student veterans, navigating through a crowded campus is stressful. Joey Diaz, Student Veterans of UNM president, said he knows a student veteran who refuses to walk across Smith Plaza. “Most people don’t see anything wrong with walking through a crowded area,” he said.
When it comes to New Mexico’s film industry, state legislators are tough critics. Gov. Susana Martinez said in her State of the State speech Jan.
Students may have gotten Tuesday off, but hundreds of UNM employees were shoveling sidewalks, clearing roads and preparing UNM’s buildings to withstand icy winds and bone-chilling temperatures.
SANTA FE — More than 80 UNM students rode the Rail Runner to the Roundhouse with a message: University students cannot sustain further tuition increases.
University Counsel ruled the Open Meetings Act does not apply to the Student Fee Review Board process, according to a counsel memo sent to ASUNM President Laz Cardenas on Jan.
GPSA unanimously passed a resolution to support the elimination of the word “illegal” in reference to people. The El Centro de la Raza presented the resolution at Saturday’s GPSA Council meeting and asked members to endorse the “Drop the I” campaign.
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — More than 400 people from the U.S. and Mexico met at the border fence Saturday in a display of solidarity with people affected by violence in Juárez.
UNM students will join activists from around the state to protect undocumented-resident access to driver’s licenses and higher education.
Two Board of Regents positions remain available after Gov. Susana Martinez rejected a regent selection process proposed by the UNM Faculty Senate.
The opportunity for students, faculty and staff to lobby lawmakers about tuition hikes and other University-related issues is fast approaching.
ASUNM senators will be out in force to lobby against the tuition credit and funding cuts at Monday’s UNM Day at the Legislature.
Under the buildings, walkways and tennis courts of UNM lays a maze of underground tunnels University officials avoid speaking of. Officially known as “the Ford Utilities steam distribution tunnel system,” UNM Utilities spokesperson Jeffrey Zumwalt said the Physical Plant Department keeps the tunnels a secret because they pose a security concern.
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