A week after New Mexico-based attorney Dennis Montoya filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on behalf of former wide receivers coach J.B.
Let the legal showdown begin. As promised — and expected — former UNM wide receivers coach J.B.
The New Mexico-based attorney for former wide receivers coach J.B. said in a phone interview Tuesday that his client was given the right to sue by the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, after an investigation into the physical altercation between UNM head football coach Mike Locksley and Gerald. Dennis Montoya, who represents Gerald, added that the 90-day clock requiring Gerald to file his lawsuit within the outlined parameters has already started and that, while Gerald has until Sept.
An amendment in the state Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act went into effect July 1, furthering efforts to prevent fraud in the Indian art market.
Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from assistant culture editor Andrew Beale’s blog about his self-funded travels in Mexico.
A law that went into effect July 1 allows some New Mexicans to carry concealed weapons into restaurants that serve beer and wine. The state has always allowed people with concealed weapons licenses to bring weapons into restaurants that don’t serve alcohol, said George Munoz, the senator who introduced the bill, but there are still no weapons allowed in restaurants with full liquor licenses. Munoz said the law shouldn’t affect any restaurants because one term of the concealed weapons license states that it’s illegal to drink when carrying a gun. “When you have a conceal and carry license, you’re not allowed to consume alcohol.
New Mexico legislators are at the forefront during the regular legislative session each winter, but what is happening in the roundhouse between sessions?
Back-to-school traffic and parking around UNM’s main campus can be unpredictable, but this August there will be an added complication. Road construction in the Yale Boulevard and Las Lomas Road area for the new Yale parking structure will restrict traffic through August 31. The construction will affect Northbound Yale Boulevard between Lomas Boulevard and Las Lomas Road, as well as both lanes of Las Lomas Road between Yale Boulevard and Stanford Drive. Parking and Transportation Services recommends that drivers find alternate routes for getting around campus.
New Mexico’s medicinal marijuana program is running dry. The state has only 11 growers to satisfy the demand of the 2,000 patients prescribed cannabis for chronic illness.
Only about 42 percent of UNM students graduate within six years. But there may be several underlying reasons for the less-than-impressive graduation rates, said Wynn Goering, vice provost of Academic Affairs. “One of the things we’ve learned about our students is that they have far more off-campus obligations than students in similar places,” Goering said. UNM students have far different lives compared to students at peer institutions, including the universities of Arizona and Colorado at Boulder, Goering said. According to fall 2009 surveys conducted by UNM, 43 percent of incoming freshmen care for a dependent, compared with only 19 percent of students at other schools.
Technology Days are upon us again. The conference, hosted by the Office of Information Technologies and the Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be held on July 22 and 23 in the SUB. Vanessa Baca, IT spokeswoman, said the event is designed to help the IT department and students network.
Abuse victims may be more likely to come forward and ask for help as a result of Tuesday’s deadly shooting at Emcore, an Albuquerque fiber optics company. Summer Little, Women’s Resource Center program manager, said high profile events like the one at Emcore tend to draw a spike in the number of abuse victims who seek help. “Events like this can be a trigger for people who have experienced abuse or are experiencing abuse,” she said.
The Mid-Region Council of Governments held two kick-off meetings at UNM on July 14 to gauge public interest in alternative means of transportation to UNM and CNM.
Questions about a deadly shooting spree Tuesday morning at a local Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer are now being answered.
Daily Lobo: So what brings you to UNM today? Amanda Velarde: We just came because of the nice weather.
Some Hispanic immigrants and families may soon call Albuquerque their new home. As a result of Arizona’s “draconian” new immigration law, undocumented immigrants and legal Hispanic citizens are looking to escape the state, said Ralph Arellanes, director of New Mexico’s League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). “They’re leaving Arizona because of fear — fear of being racially profiled and arrested,” he said.
The Raza Graduate Student Association is asking the UNM community to put its money where its mouth is through a boycott of Arizona. The RGSA hosted “To Boycott or Not to Boycott: UNM Community Responds to Arizona Boycott,” on June 30, a forum more than 35 students, faculty and community members attended.
The Women’s Resource Center is hosting “Traditional Medicine Without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico” for the program’s 10th year this summer, lending insight into traditional and modern medicine.
The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division will now have to abide by a federal law and provide voter registration to people who apply for or renew state licenses.
The National Center for Research Resources awarded the Clinical and Translational Science Award to the Health Sciences Center, a $21 million award. The goal of the prize is to improve health care by enabling superior clinical and translational research, an area into which UNM HSC has already put considerable work, according to a press release from U.S.
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