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.”
The Faculty Senate endorsed a printing resolution that encourages professors to reduce class printing requirements Tuesday. ASUNM president Lazaro Cardenas and ASUNM Attorney General Jaymie Roybal presented the resolution to the Senate two months ago.
The American Cancer Society gave a UNM researcher $360,000 in hopes of bringing fresh blood to the fight against cancer. The society awarded $360,000 in research funds to Michelle Ozbun, UNM cancer biologist and virologist, over the next three years. The funds will go toward budding researchers at the University, with the one stipulation that research be done on cancer.
The Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities Committee approved $400 million worth of investments, construction and repairs Tuesday.
Organizers and supporters of an annual adult film festival were trying to promote freedom of sexual expression.
The UNM Veterans Resource Center hosted the Stand Down and Project Hand-Up 2010 to assist homeless veterans. The project helped more than 400 homeless veterans with VA claims, counseling, food, health, showers, free haircuts and provided a warm breakfast and dinner, VRC Director Elise Wheeler said. “We can offer a hand to those who have raised their right hand,” she said.
If its latest legal maneuver is any indication, UNM would rather endure potential costly court proceedings than enter into settlement discussions with former wide receivers coach J.B.
UNM is inching closer to receiving an exempt waiver that would allow it to sell alcohol at The Pit, University Stadium and the SUB.
About 80 protestors lined the streets downtown Friday to call attention to the number of APD officer-involved shootings this year. Andres Barros organized a protest in response to the mid-August death of his friend Enrique Carrasco.
Eight cars were burglarized two weeks ago in South Lot, adding up nearly $2,000 of stolen property and damages, according to UNMPD. On Oct.
Brenda Sanchez and her 10-year-old daughter waited in line for 20 minutes to receive a free flu shot without ever having to step out of the family minivan.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta saw increased attendance for a third straight year. The fiesta had more than 811,000 visitors, nearly 50,000 more than last year’s event, said Kathie Leyendecker, a balloon fiesta spokeswoman.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion launched a campaign aimed at making victims and witnesses of hate crimes feel comfortable coming forward.
A proposed recreation center could increase student fees, but while ASUNM mulls over the idea, they’ve committed to cutting costs elsewhere. Johnson Gym is not accessible enough for students, said Vice President for Student Affairs Cheo Torres at ASUNM’s Wednesday meeting. “We teach courses there during the day, and in the evenings we run out of space,” Torres said. Funds for this planned center would likely come from student fees, said Tim Gutierrez, associate vice-president of Student Affairs, and would require about $117 student fees increase per semester. “It’s a lot cheaper than joining the fitness center,” Torres said. ASUNM President Lazaro Cardenas said the recreation center should not be funded through student fees. ”Students don’t have that much money,” Cardenas said. “I don’t want that to be a barrier to them obtaining some type of education. It’s tough to even think, in my mind, of raising student fees. I don’t support a rec center at the current time.” Sen. Terence Brown supported the center.
UNM is an ideal campus for bike-riders, but even more so for bike thieves. From Jan. 1 to Oct. 4, 118 bikes have been reported stolen, said UNMPD spokesman Lt.
When Roberto Robledo was only 13 years old, he made his first pair of “sicodelico” style boots in his father’s boot shop in Juárez, Mexico. “In Mexico, if a family owns a boot shop, it means everyone in that family knows how to make shoes and boots, especially my parents are from León Guanajuato,” Robledo said.
Family Studies junior Deanna Tompkins came to UNM from Denver on a Daniels Scholarship, which she said is hard to get. She works in African-American Student Services (the Afro) and mentors girls by building their spirits and teaching them how to set goals and put community events together. She said the Afro feels like a home away from home. “I don’t have any family here. I just have myself and whatever friends I’ve acquired along the way,” she said. Tompkins has been in the foster care system since she was 8 years old, but now she’s movin’ and groovin’ to the song of her own independence. It’s where she gets her passion for social work.
The Lobo Village real estate office is accepting applications from students and faculty interested in leasing a Lobo Village apartment. The complex opens August 2011, and the real estate office is hosting a kick-off event today at 10 a.m.
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