Ever since professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray were killed on a quiet Sunday in March, students, family, friends and colleagues have been tackling the issue of domestic violence.
The Coalition for Immigration, Race and Social Justice is sponsoring a summit Saturday to focus on understanding and educating students on immigration issues. Christopher Ramirez, the project assistant for the Office of Equity and Inclusion, said a variety of people are affected by issues that will be covered at the Back2School Summit, even if they don’t realize it. “Immigration, race and social justice impacts all of us.
Statistics released by the Dean of Student’s office show some surprising numbers: While the number of punished cases of academic dishonesty is going down, the number of unpunished cases is going up. From 2000 to 2005, a student faced disciplinary action in only slightly more than 10 cases per year on average.
The Office of Capital Projects said UNM has seven construction projects underway on main campus, all set to be completed in October. Will Turner, director of the Office of Capital Projects, said there are 23 construction projects have been approved on main campus. “There’s more work out there to be done than we can ever finish,” he said.
Julian Blair, a former defensive back on the UNM football team was involved in the Aug. 25 robbery of teammate Brandon Lewis, according to UNMPD officials. Detective Chris Crespin, the lead investigator in the case, confirmed that Blair is a suspect in the robbery of $1,800 worth of electronics from Lewis’ room. Blair was not named in the Aug. 25 police report, but was dismissed from the team during preseason for an unspecified violation of team rules, an Athletics spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
A proposed buyout plan encouraging older UNM faculty to retire was recently ended because of questions about its financial viability.
Studying at a prestigious foreign university could cost a UNM student slightly more than regular tuition.
New Mexico Public Interest Research Group held a kick-off meeting to discuss its upcoming campaigns. ASUNM senator Melissa Trent said she became involved in PIRG, a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan outreach advocacy group for environmental, consumer and democracy issues, to ensure the student issues are heard. “It’s time to reform, and young people need to be heard in the debate,” Trent said. NMPIRG President Breanna Hastings heads the New Voters Project, a campaign designed to increase voter participation.
Hispanic Business Magazine has named UNM’s Anderson School of Management the nation’s sixth best graduate business school for Hispanic students for the second year in a row.
The Board of Regents discussed the University’s fate in the face of grim 3.2 percent budget cuts at a meeting in the SUB Tuesday.
A 19-year-old man, recently released from the UNM Mental Health Clinic, was shot twice by police when he approached officers and refused to drop a knife Tuesday morning, Albuquerque Police Department Chief Ray Schultz said in a statement.
In celebration of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence Day, UNM libraries will exhibit a collection of photographs from Juarez and protest art based out of Oaxaca, Mexico, starting Wednesdsay and running through Oct.
The person who stole UNM football player Brandon Lewis’ belongings Aug. 25 confessed to the act, and, as a result, that player was dismissed from the team shortly after the incident occurred, an Athletics spokesman said Monday. UNM sports information director Frank Mercogliano said that one player, who is not named in the UNMPD report, was booted off the team during fall training camp because of the incident.
UNM Information Technologies (IT) released LoboMobile, an application that allows student to access UNM information from their cell phones.
A New Mexico law that allows for undocumented immigrants to receive state-issued driver’s licenses has come under fire with bipartisan support to reverse the law.
During the Republican candidate forum last week, the message was clear: Our systems are in debt, and uncontrolled government spending is the culprit.
With a clipboard in hand, student Spencer Cousins stands fixed near the water fountain in front of Northrop Hall early Tuesday afternoon.
If you’ve ever wanted to join in a giant puppet parade or put your mark on a piece of a 1,000-foot canvas, the We Art the People Festival this Sunday is your chance. The festival, organized by OFFCenter Community Arts, will feature the parade and collaborative canvas, as well as about 100 local art vendors and performances by local groups like Le Chat Lunatique and Joe Daddy and Hoodoo Jeff’s Swamp Fried Duo.
UNM football player Brandon Lewis’ room was broken into Aug. 25. Lewis informed police that a teammate told him that freshman defensive back Ravonne Carter said he intended to steal from Lewis’ room the same night, according to a UNMPD report. Police collected a silver knife with fingerprints believed to have been used in the break-in, and they are sending the knife to a lab for testing. The investigation is ongoing.
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