NM GOP spouts about spending
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 13During the Republican candidate forum last week, the message was clear: Our systems are in debt, and uncontrolled government spending is the culprit.
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.
The UNM Parking and Transportation Services is launching a program to make alternative transportation more accessible. Danielle Gilliam, program coordinator for the Transportation Demand Management Programs, said UNM is considering implementing bicycle boulevards on campus, likely dropping the speed limit to 18 mph. “Parking and Transportation are advocates for bicycles on campus.
The Provost’s Office issued a Sept. 1 travel advisory in the wake of Mexico’s escalating violence. Provost Suzanne Ortega encouraged students planning to visit Mexico to educate themselves about possible dangers in the areas and to have emergency contacts.
The Anthropology Annex basement flooded with gray water Sept. 1, leaving several archaeology labs ruined, graduate student and faculty labs unusable, and a basement ceramics class without a classroom.
Albuquerque native Scott Carreathers has been the director of African American Student Services, or the “Afro,” as the students call it, for eight years.
For the first time in its history, UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning has a woman as its new dean. Geraldine Forbes Isais, the architecture program director since 2005, was promoted to dean at the end of spring 2010 semester and assumed her role this summer. She succeeds Roger Schluntz, who served as dean for UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning for more than a decade.
Gov. Bill Richardson introduced a $50,000 Recovery Act fund Aug. 24 to encourage low-income households to shop at farmers markets.
Career Week at the Anderson School of Management, an event to meant to help students jump into the work force, began Tuesday and will run through Sept.
Behind Quarters restaurant at Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Boulevard, a storage shed exploded and damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton. Dan Harmeyer, who was working in an office building in front of the shed at the time of the explosion, said he heard a loud boom and saw drywall flying before running out of the building to call 911. “The storage shed back there just blew up.
He had a high spirit and was inclined to help others. Now, John Robert Anczarski will be remembered with a memorial “ghost” bike, just a few feet away from the pavement where a motorist struck and killed the young man June 22. The 19-year-old died after a motorist struck his bicycle in Laguna, N.M., along State Highway 124. “The driver and the bikes were headed west.
Behind Quarter’s restaurant on the corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Blvd. a storage shed exploded, sparking a fire that damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton.
Faculty members in the Psychology Department housed in Logan Hall have started the semester with a shortage of offices, labs, computers and furniture, in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 flood that left 35 rooms unusable. Trish Aragon-Mascarenas, a Psychology Department administrator, said other faculty members have offered space to those who lost offices while construction is ongoing.
ASUNM’s first meeting of the school year commenced Wednesday evening, with senators tackling subjects including printing costs and new student housing. Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate, discussed new student housing projects on main campus.
The Board of Regents Finance and Facilities Committee faced the looming possibility of University-wide budget cuts, new construction and increased tuition during its Wednesday morning meeting.
UNM central administration and faculty routinely quarrel, and a survey released Wednesday proves there is discontent over budget and communication issues between the two parties.
Research done by the Mind Research Network is having such an impact that it now has to be published online more than once a year.
The room was packed, as a large contingent of architecture and planning students, along with others not attending UNM, listened intently to Duane Blue Spruce speak Monday evening in the Pearl Hall Auditorium. People sat on the descending stair walkways, notebooks in hand, hoping to learn about a relatively unexplored subject: modern Native American architecture.