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.
Young professionals and students from UNM flocked to meet and mingle with city and state politicians at the Banque Lofts in downtown Albuquerque on Friday night. More than 100 guests attended the young professionals fundraiser for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt.
The legalization bus is coming to town, and Albuquerque is getting ready to hop on. Students for Sensible Drug Policy president, Marcus Lucero, is helping to host a protest/party at the Duck Pond today on 4/20 in honor of marijuana reform day. Lucero said this is the first event the organization has held on April 20. “The war on drugs disproportionately affects minorities than it does white people,” Lucero said.
GPSA presidential candidate Martin Gutierrez ignored the GPSA council’s recommendation to disclose all of his campaign funding and expenses by Monday at 5 p.m. On Sunday evening, Gutierrez said GPSA should be focusing on issues that matter to students, such as tuition — not where campaign funds are coming from or how much he is spending.
A new UNM program is hosting a national security event on campus today to discuss “challenges and opportunities” in the field of national security. The National Security Colloquium takes place in the Southwest Film Center in the lower SUB today.
The GPSA Council Chair was elected on Saturday, but some council representatives called the results into question only an hour later. Graduate student Megan McRobert got 12 votes and current GPSA Council Chair Danny Hernandez received nine.
Employees being laid off from the UNM Office of Capital Projects said the budget shortfalls are caused by a combination of mismanagement and hard economic times. Alec Mottershead, an OCP architectural draftsman, said jobs could have been saved if it weren’t for bad management decisions.
Thanks to the efforts of Project Share, Inc. hundreds of people that would otherwise go hungry can eat every week.
Timothy Graham, director for the Institute of Medieval Studies, specializes in medieval manuscripts.
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