On 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.
Martin 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.
There 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.
The 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?
ASUNM 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.
If 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.
After Arnold Woods, a homeless man, was found sleeping in Popejoy Hall, his mother, Mary, asked the Albuquerque community for help finding her son.
The Daily Lobo chatted with GPSA presidential candidate Lissa Knudsen about her views on Athletics, research and job hunting after graduation.
Albuquerque’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.
In 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.
Five 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.
UNM 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.
Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas is running for ASUNM president on the Full Circle slate. The Daily Lobo sat down to talk with him about printing, parking, security and the differences between his opponent and himself.
Mayor Richard Berry wants the Anderson School of Management’s help in rejuvenating Albuquerque’s economy. In his three-prong plan, Berry announced a partnership with the school to educate the next generation of Albuquerque business people. Dean of the Anderson School of Management, Doug Brown, said Berry’s business background gives him the skills to restructure the economy. “Economic development is clearly a high priority for Berry.
Students are helping refugees make the transition to life in America. The Refugee Well-being Project, a class offered through the psychology and anthropology departments, gives students the opportunity to work with refugees who are resettling in New Mexico.
Poets paced in the Outpost Performance Space courtyard on Saturday night reciting poems one last time before the competition. It was a contest between 10 of Albuquerque’s top slam poets to determine the four that would make the national team. Chicago-based slam poet Tim Stafford emceed.
David Conway is running for ASUNM president on the Wolfpack slate. The Daily Lobo sat down with him to talk about free tickets for athletic events, security and the difference between his opponent and himself. Daily Lobo: Athletics isn’t a necessary part of the educational atmosphere of UNM, so if anything has to be on the chopping block, shouldn’t it be something that is nonessential like free student tickets? David Conway: We have to be sure that we are still building a community at this University.
Researchers and students at UNM are building one-of-a-kind telescopes that may reveal secrets of the universe.
The Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fees by $405, and $64 of that increase is not covered by the NM Lottery Scholarship. The regents have until April 30 to tweak the increase, but if it stands, tuition and fees will be about $5,505 per undergraduate student per semester.
The name on his driver’s license says Lawrence Floyd, but he introduces himself as Pink while strumming an air guitar and humming his favorite Pink Floyd song, “Comfortably Numb.” Floyd is one of the hundreds who will sleep on the streets of Albuquerque tonight.
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