Though politics can make some red-hot with frustration, the Democratic Party of New Mexico wants to show UNM students why it can be cool to go blue. The DPNM will host Campaign Blue today from 11 a.m.
The UNM student group Conservative Republicans hosted a forum Thursday for only the most bona fide, through and through Republican primary candidates. Unlike the College Republicans, who generally support any Republican candidates, the Conservative Republicans only support candidates whom they deem unequivocally conservative, said Donald Gluck, president of UNM Conservative Republicans. “We advocate for conservative principles as stated in the Declaration of Independence, as codified in the Constitution and as practiced by Ronald Reagan,” Gluck said in an e-mail.
Tuition increases paint a bleak picture for many students in the 2010-11 academic year, but UNM’s Parent Association is offering a life vest for students drowning in debt.
UNM undergraduate research on lightning is creating a spark in the scientific community. Students at the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations & Applications Center (COSMIAC) are designing instruments that will be used to study ionospheric activity.
About 1,000 people woke up before 10 a.m. Saturday for the ASUNM Community Experience’s Spring Storm event. Spring Storm, which coincides with the Fiestas event every year, is a community-service initiative that sends UNM students all over town to work on various projects. “Different groups around campus, as well as individual groups, sign up to do projects for us throughout the day, and we find 50, 60 projects throughout the Albuquerque area for them to do,” she said. Jennifer Hill, who participated in the event, said she was impressed by the number of people that showed up. “I think they said it was over a thousand.
GPSA President Lissa Knudsen was re-elected to her second term as president. She received more than 50 percent of the vote, and her opponent, Martin Gutierrez, got almost 43 percent. However, Gutierrez is asking for an independent entity to examine the elections process from beginning to end, citing several glitches from the GPSA Elections Committee and Internet Technologies. “The current administration and elections committee have not been transparent about this process,” Gutierrez said in a statement.
Elvis Presley’s voice suddenly blasted from of a boom box in the SUB Friday, as clusters of students began dancing in unison. Student Lauren Clinger said she felt thrown in the midst of a Popejoy production. “It wasn’t expected, which was really neat — kind of like a musical only in real life,” she said. UNM ballroom dance classes planned this “spontaneous” show, performing all over campus including the SUB, Zimmerman courtyard and by the Duck Pond to advertise the showcase on April 28.
Booth fee: $500 Round trip gas from Canada to Albuquerque: $850 Hotel: $350 Participating in the nation’s largest powwow: priceless.
GPSA President Lissa Knudsen was re-elected to her second term as GPSA president. She received more than 50 percent of the vote, and her opponent, Martin Gutierrez, got almost 43 percent.
The opening ceremony for White History Week was not what you would expect, even if you already knew the event’s name was misleading. White History Week promotes understanding across racial barriers by encouraging discussion of white privilege.
Though working with a smaller staff, the APD Party Patrol will still in full force this summer. APD reduced the Party Patrol’s number of officers from about 18 to 12 in October because of budget cuts.
Teaching diversity in a classroom is one thing, having the opportunity to experience it in your own backyard is something else entirely. The Gathering of Nations is the largest powwow in North America, according to the event website, which boasts nearly 50 million visitors.
The UNM Residence Hall Association wants to find the greenest dorm. To do so, they have conducted an almost month-long competition to see which dorm can reduce its energy consumption the most.
UNM programs will celebrate Earth Day with the second Annual Sustainability Expo. The Sustainability Expo will promote eco-friendly living and products to UNM students.
A revision to UNM housing contracts will no longer give sororities and fraternities exemption for mid-year release. Residents wanting to relocate to a sorority or fraternity house may still do so after the fall rush period, said Lauren Haggerty, Greek Life adviser, but spring “rushees” will have to wait to move in until the subsequent fall term. “The exemption had been worked out a long time ago with the residence halls, but I think that housing is going through a lot of changes currently,” she said.
Today the polls close for the GPSA presidential election, but Council Chair Danny Hernandez wants to call the whole thing off. Hernandez cited three errors that occurred throughout the election process as reason to scrap the results and start anew. “There have been too many irregularities in this election,” he said in an e-mail. Early Wednesday morning, the GPSA Elections Committee realized that 180 of 5,500 graduate and professional students were not invited to vote in the election.
The UNM Physical Plant Department received results from a state lab on Tuesday, but it didn’t reveal any harmful substances in the discolored UNM well water.
GPSA Presidential Candidate Martin Gutierrez has received $500 in campaign donations so far, according to data he posted on his website Tuesday evening. Gutierrez posted the information more than 24 hours after the GPSA council passed a resolution encouraging candidates to submit a list of campaign contributions and expenses. He said the report was late for three reasons: First, he said he didn’t receive notice from the council about its recommendation until Monday.
She woke up around 6 a.m., snapped on her fanny pack and when she reached for the cabinet to make a bowl of oatmeal, promptly died, slumped over her walker. Inside the fanny pack were three pictures of her favorite dogs, several revoked driver’s licenses (she was legally blind) and a taped-up card, its lamination peeling at the corners. “My body has been donated to the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico,” the card reads.
Discolored water prompted the UNM Physical Plant Department to shut off UNM’s well-water source Tuesday and use city water instead.
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