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Dust triggers false fire alarm
Shaun Griswold | October 7Fire trucks drove onto campus Wednesday around noon as students evacuated the SUB after a false fire alarm.
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Backstage: Adult Rehabilitation
Junfu Han | October 7Six months ago, Leo Rosas walked into the Roswell City Probation office with a confession to make. “I told them that I’m dirty.
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SHAC: Come get your head checked
Barron Jones | October 7UNM Student Health and Counseling is offering free mental health screenings today. Mental health professionals will screen students for depression and related illnesses such as bipolar and eating disorders, generalized anxiety and post-traumatic stress. UNM student Melanie Buck, who attended the event in 2007, said the screening helped her pinpoint and address issues related to the deaths of loved ones. “Mental health is very important for succeeding in life,” she said. “If you are not OK with yourself, how you can expect to be OK with everything else?”
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Budget cuts keep marching band home
Sean P. Wynne | October 7The UNM Spirit Marching Band will not be going with the football team to Las Cruces for Saturday’s rivalry game against New Mexico State because of budget cuts. Chad Simons, director of the Spirit Marching Band, said the marching band’s budget has been cut by about $25,000. “Financially, we have some real challenges.
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Errors found in student planner
Chelsea Erven | October 7The UNM Day Planner, given to freshmen at orientation and sold at the UNM Bookstore, has inaccurate information.
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Students split over whether fiesta still an event to behold
Shaun Griswold | October 5It’s the largest North American event of its kind, and more than 25 million photos are shot each year, making it as the most photographed event in the world, according to Kodak.
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HR to audit eligibility of insurance dependents
Ruben Hamming-Green | October 5UNM Human Resources is requiring all employees with department health insurance to complete audits verifying dependents’ eligibility on their plan.
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Crime Briefs
October 4On Sept. 19, UNMPD responded to a domestic dispute at the 900 block of Buena Vista Drive S.E. A female subject told police that her boyfriend had been verbally and emotionally abusive for several months.
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Yale structure open for parking
Laurel Brishel Prichard | October 4The parking strain for students, faculty and staff may decrease with Monday’s opening of the Yale parking structure. Robert Nelson, associate director for UNM Parking and Transportation Services, said the garage adds 780 parking spaces to campus, which go for about $425 a year for students and can range up to $698 for faculty and staff depending on their salaries.
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Medical clinic seeks student volunteers
Tricia Remark | October 4Casa De Salud is looking for volunteers who want to gain hands-on experience in the medical field. The medical clinic in Albuquerque’s South Valley area serves more than 11,000 patients each year, focusing on those without insurance in low-income areas. The clinic now has 20 student volunteers, but is looking for more, said spokesman Zane Maroney. “You’re actually learning medicine,” he said. “Doctors bring you in to watch procedures and explain them step-by-step.” Scholarships and work-study are also available to many volunteers, Maroney said, and volunteers should work six hours per week for a year and speak Spanish proficiently.
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PIRG hosts deadline-day voter signup
Shaun Griswold | October 4Voting is a very important obligation for such an easy registration process, or at least that’s what an on-campus organization is trying to prove.
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PPD: We are not 'water wasters'
Sean P. Wynne | October 4UNM’s water usage is down thanks to new waste-reducing measures, according to Physical Plant Department representatives.
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Under Exposed: Teaching Assistant
Jakob Schiller | September 30Brian Hendrickson has a presence in the classroom. Earlier this week, hands flew into the air as anxious students waited to contribute to the larger discussion he led as part of his English 101 class.
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Zip around UNM for cheap
Chelsea Erven | September 30Zipcar offers UNM students the freedom of owning a car without associated costs and hassles, yet some students are unaware that the service is available.
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ASUNM supports online salary book
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 30After contentious debate, ASUNM passed a resolution by a 10-9 vote Wednesday encouraging UNM administrators to make the salary book available online.
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Students: Porn Nation biased
Sean P. Wynne | September 30Students criticized an on-campus Christian organization for being unable to spark a comprehensive discussion on the effects of pornography during an event Wednesday. UNM student Elizabeth Boyle said an event on Wednesday called Porn Nation, sponsored by the Campus Crusade for Christ, also known as CRU, lacked diverse perspectives on the topic of pornography. “The fact that it’s a biased view from a strictly Christian perspective is kind of a turn-off.
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Weaving new traditions in with old
Andrew Lyman | September 30An exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will help visitors weave through Mayan community traditions. Mary Beth Hermans, Public Programs director, said the exhibit displays how clothing changed dramatically over the last two generations because of entrepreneurship and mass production.
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Flood cleanup halts research
Chelsea Erven | September 30Graduate students and faculty in the Anthropology department have been in class-and-research limbo, while crews work to repair the basement after the Anthropology Annex flooded Sept.
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Locals chat up Obama at South Valley farm
Shaun Griswold | September 29President Barack Obama discussed education initiatives that will help college students, answered questions about veterans’ benefits and his religious faith, and attacked Republicans for supporting tax cuts that benefit the top 2 percent of Americans during a “backyard chat” in Bernalillo County Tuesday.
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Group unites in fight against blood cancers
Sofia Sanchez | September 29Every four minutes a person is diagnosed with blood cancer, and every 10 minutes someone dies from a form of blood cancer, according to Lobos against Leukemia’s website.
