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Daily Lobo Spotlight: Trevor Ellis
April 12Daily Lobo: Are you from here? Trevor Ellis: I’m from Albuquerque, yeah. DL: That’s a cool backpack.
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GPSA candidates differ in approaches
Andrew Beale | April 12GPSA elections are coming up, and Danny Hernandez has a challenger for the council chair seat. Community and Regional Planning student Megan McRobert is also running for the council chair seat.
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LaPo employee let go for allegedly harassing co-worker
Shaun Griswold | April 12A La Posada Dining Hall manager is no longer employed with UNM after being accused of assaulting a fellow employee.
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Award assists mother of five
Kallie Red-Horse | April 12The Truman Scholarship is allowing one UNM student’s dreams to come true. Cara Valente-Compton, who got the $30,000 award, said she’s wanted to attend the UNM School of Law her entire life, and her award is allowing her to do so. “My plan has always been to attend the UNM School of Law.
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Ortiz y Pino rallies for campaign support
Jeremy Faulkner | April 11UNM faculty and students attended a fundraiser Friday night for Democratic Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s campaign to be lieutenant governor. About 100 people attended the fundraiser’s array of performances in Winrock Mall, which included three Albuquerque bands and poetry readings by UNM student-poets Damien Flores and Hakim Bellamy.
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Question and Answer: Maria Williams
Jeremy Faulkner | April 11Associate Professor Maria Williams’ research incorporates an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and learning about music cultures in Alaska Native indigenous populations.
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Cardenas beats Conway in student organization endorsements
Pat Lohmann | April 11ASUNM presidential candidate Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas received twice the number of student organization endorsements than his opponent.
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GPSA, SBA agree to disagree
Pat Lohmann | April 11Representatives from the Student Bar Association and GPSA met Friday in a last-ditch effort to reconcile the organizations’ differences.
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UNM bids tearful farewell to slain colleagues
Shaun Griswold | April 11On Friday, one month after the death of their colleagues Hector Torres and Stefania Gray, UNM community members gave public condolences during a memorial at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
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Get To Know: Martin Gutierrez
April 8Martin Gutierrez is running for GPSA president. The Daily Lobo talked with him about his campaign focuses, including making GPSA more transparent and reducing graduate student expenses.
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Low voter turnout isn't just a problem for UNM
Mario Trujillo | April 8There is a specter haunting student government elections — the specter of low voter turnout. A president, vice president and 10 senators will be voted into the ASUNM government on April 14.
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Stabbing victim recalls trauma
Pat Lohmann | April 8The victim of the Feb. 15 stabbing on campus has a pretty good idea what she was thinking right after a stranger plunged a knife into her neck. “How do you live through something like this?
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ASUNM candidates stress sustainability, safety
Leah Valencia | April 7ASUNM Candidates had their final chance to speak out Tuesday by answering questions from students and student organizations. ASUNM Election Commission Director Brian Moore said the commission hosted the event — which about 40 people attended — to give students a chance to decide which candidates will best represent them in ASUNM. “Any student can ask a question directly to any of the candidates,” he said.
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Former Iranian prison detainee visits Burque
Pat Lohmann | April 7If you’ve ever considered making a short jaunt to Iran for summer break, Diego Mathieu has a story that’ll change your mind. Mathieu, a Belgian, was hitchhiking through Iran’s Great Salt Desert in September 2009 when Iranian officials arrested him and charged him with espionage. He said he then spent the next three months in an Iranian prison awaiting trial — enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture.
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Popejoy homeless man update
Shaun Griswold | April 7After Arnold Woods, a homeless man, was found sleeping in Popejoy Hall, his mother, Mary, asked the Albuquerque community for help finding her son.
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Get to know: Lissa Knudsen
April 7The Daily Lobo chatted with GPSA presidential candidate Lissa Knudsen about her views on Athletics, research and job hunting after graduation.
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Study to test red-light cameras' efficacy
Kallie Red-Horse | April 7Albuquerque’s streets may soon be cleared of pesky red-light cameras. Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry signed a $36,000 contract with UNM’s Institute for Social Research to evaluate the effectiveness of the cameras in preventing crashes, said T.J Wilham, Albuquerque’s public safety director of communications. “He wants the cameras to be an effective tool to make our streets safer,” he said.
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U News offers a student-run broadcast outlet
Andrew Beale | April 6In the Wild West of UNM journalism, there’s a new gunslinger in town — albeit a friendly one. U News, a Web-based TV station, has been broadcasting once a week starting this semester, said founder and news director Dan Martinez.
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Business plan takes students to Germany
Tricia Remark | April 6Five UNM students are chasing their dreams — all the way to Hamburg, Germany. The group earned one of five spots at the International Supercomputer Conference 2010 in Germany with a business plan they made for a local company, said graduate student Adel Saad.
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Capital projects department to lay off 6 workers
Leah Valencia | April 6UNM Office of Capital Projects is eliminating six full-time positions and cutting six unfilled positions to deal with a lack of funding for fiscal year 2011. “We’ve reduced the size of the organization by almost 50 percent,” said Vice President of Institutional Support Services Steve Beffort.
