ASUNM passed a resolution against the demolition of the Santa Ana dorms Wednesday night. The possible demolition would displace 177 residents over winter break, who would then be placed in other dormitories. Sen.
Students Paisley Palmer and David Davis said they were excited to vote for their first time. However, just days before election day, they noticed something was wrong when they still didn’t have their voter-registration cards.
By the end of November, Susie McCarthy will move the Star Barber Shop and Salon to her renovated garage from its location on Monte Vista Boulevard.
Start exploring career options at today’s career fair hosted by the UNM Office of Career Services. Jenna Crabb, Career Services director, said fewer recruiters will attend this year’s fair, because employers must now pay registration fees. During the past four years, the United States Office of Personnel Management covered costs, she said. Crabb couldn’t say how many fewer recruiters will be at this year’s fair, but that shouldn’t discourage students from attending the Public Service Career Showcase. “We have some great companies that are coming,” she said. “There are great opportunities that exist within these sectors for students.” Thirty-one employers will be on hand, including representatives from Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Drug Enforcement Agency, the National Security Administration, the American Red Cross and many others. To help students prepare for the career fair, the UNM Office of Career Services hosted workshops designed to improve students’ resumes and interviewing skills. Crabb said many of the companies attending today’s fair will conduct interviews Friday at the Career Services offices in the Student Services Center.
A rumor that has plagued Coronado Hall for years is just that — a rumor, according to UNM officials.
Deion Clark(e) is a junior majoring in journalism, with an eye on broadcast opportunities in the entertainment industry.
In an optimistic atmosphere, New Mexico Republicans watched poll results roll in, and supporters celebrated a national Republican takeover Monday night at the Albuquerque Hilton. Susana Martinez rode national momentum and defeated Diane Denish in New Mexico’s governor’s race. “Tonight we have made history,” Martinez said in her victory speech in Las Cruces.
UNM Hospitals, Information Technologies and the Health Sciences Center will merge GroupWise e-mail systems Friday. The merger will improve communication between UNMH and HSC and faculty and staff on main campus, said Sally Bowler-Hill, program operations director for Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.
Since sustainability became one of its core values in 2008,UNM has pushed for a greener campus, but student apathy has hindered efforts. Mary Clark, program specialist at the Office of Sustainability, said UNM has an award-winning recycling program with a 40 percent diversion rate (the percentage of waste that is recycled). She said students think the department isn’t doing enough to encourage participation in sustainability efforts. “There’s still a lot of work to be done, and a lot of that is because we’re an ever-changing population, and we need to keep educating them,” she said. Linda McCormick, the resource conservation manager, said the recycling program that began in the early 90s didn’t involve students, but she has taken steps to curb the issue.
UNM graduate students are organizing to find another way of tackling budget cuts that have left many uncertain about their jobs. Graduate Student Liza Minno-Bloom is forming Graduate Employees Together, a committee that advocates for graduate and teaching assistants. She said half of all UNM classes are taught by graduate students, and most estimates under-represent their impact.
The renovated and less-falling-apart Pit opened Monday for the first time since the $60 million upgrades were completed.
As thousands flocked to Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity,” Albuquerque had its own. Michele Lupowitz, event organizer, said the point of the rallies was not to point fingers at specific politicians or criticize political beliefs, but to support rational dialogue missing in politics today.
Today will manifest a field of ideas across UNM. Today is for the future. Today marks the campus’ first TEDx event from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in SUB Ballroom C. TEDx, representing technology, entertainment, design and “x” for the unknown, is an international initiative, and the University’s version will offer eight hours packed with talks about issues of social change, said organizer and graduate student Mark Worthy. All speakers are affiliated with UNM. “It’s important, especially at an academic institution of higher learning, for opportunities to exist so people can engage in the assimilation of information,” he said. Worthy, who is studying organizational learning and instructional technology, coordinated the event to seat 100 people. He said he first learned about TEDx lectures when he got an e-mail while living in the Netherlands. “I began to read it, and I viewed some TED talks,” he said. “I was really inspired by the concept of the spreading of ideas — very simple, uncomplicated.”
New Mexico law protects women’s rights to breast-feed in public, but a UNM student and mother said a security guard and employees at the Frontier Restaurant violated that statute.
For Francisco Gonzalez, his custodial job at the SUB is a welcome distraction. “If I wasn’t working, I’d probably go out of my mind,” he said.
The future does not look bright for Santa Ana Hall. As part of a two-phase plan, the University will demolish the 172-student dorm to make room for two construction projects that will add nearly 1,000 student beds to the main campus by fall 2012, said Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate Operations. Murphy said that Santa Ana is more than 50 years old, small and requires improvements that could cost more than new construction.
Mesa Vista Hall renovations may force ethnic centers to start sharing resources. The building, home to the three ethnic centers, hasn’t been renovated since the 1980s, said Veronica Mendez-Cruz, El Centro de la Raza director. She said as part of the renovations, the building would have one centralized ethnic center instead of each having its own location. “I can tell you that I can look in any direction, standing anywhere on campus and find a capital project that needs to happen,” she said.
New Mexico legislators are threatening to close some college campuses to try to reduce spending on higher education. The Legislative Finance Committee met Oct.
It’s not exactly a picturesque outlook for the UNM photography program. Professor James Stone said in an e-mail that the campus-wide funding shortage is forcing the Department of Art and Art History to make tough economic decisions.
In a world gone mad, Douglas Daugherty said, the University needs a “A Day of Sanity.” Daugherty, the event organizer, said violent outbreaks have produced a need for community dialogue. He said what happened Monday at a debate in Kentucky is an all-too familiar reminder. There, a Rand Paul volunteer stepped on a liberal activist’s head after she was tackled. “Sitting on the sideline is a complicit act in socially reproducing the status quo,” Daugherty said. “We must remember there is no such thing as a ‘real world’ out there. The real world is a social construction, and only through the social deconstruction of that world can we begin the long and arduous task of producing a better world for our children and grandchildren and future generations of humanity.”
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