State legislators passed $240 million worth of tax increases Wednesday after a heated debate on the House floor. The measure, an essential component in completing the state budget, passed the House by a vote of 38-28, after being debated for nearly three hours. The bill will now go to the Governor’s desk for executive approval.
UNM’s fraternities and sororities are shaking off the winter blues with some old-fashioned philanthropy. This year’s Greek Week is Disney-themed and benefits Best Buddies New Mexico, Watermelon Mountain Ranch and the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo. Alex Roark, organizer of the event, said the week provides an incentive for Greek collaboration. “Greek Week is just one of the only times out of the whole year where the entire Greek community gets together to do several events,” she said.
The second contender for the School of Engineering’s dean was on campus Monday to outline his intentions for the school, whose dean stepped down in July. Patrick O’Shea, University of Maryland’s chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering, held two forums with students, faculty and staff. O’Shea said he would focus on increasing the department’s exposure to attract donors and increase national ranking. “The key thing when it comes to department ranking is simply making sure department chairs respect and recognize the things that are going on,” he said.
If you can’t get a Subway sandwich after dark, blame the city’s crime rate. The Subway at the corner of Girard Boulevard and Central Avenue has stopped accepting cash after 8 p.m., because it has been robbed twice since the beginning of the year, store owner Leticia Bernal said.
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Legislature reconvened Monday for the Special Session with only one thing on the Governor’s Proclamation — the state budget. Though House and Senate leadership came to an agreement last week, there is still hard opposition from both parties.
UNM Police officers responded to a report of a gunman near the Communication and Journalism building shortly after 5 p.m.
A steaming slice of pizza wasn’t the only thing on students’ minds at lunchtime on Monday. ASUNM hosted a student forum, or town hall, to give students the opportunity to voice their opinions to student leaders in the SUB at noon.
Daily Lobo: So what it is you study at UNM? Emily McMaster: I am studying printmaking. DL: How did you get into printmaking?
More than 360 Albuquerque teens went hungry this weekend to fundraise for a national nonprofit organization. The teenagers stopped eating after lunch on Friday and went without meals until 6:30 p.m.
Republicans had the opportunity to raise their hands and voices Saturday in a public forum with Republican gubernatorial candidates.
Six UNM doctors returned home after providing pediatric, surgical and obstetrician care to earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.In collaboration with the National Emergency Medical System, the New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team sent a team on its first international deployment.
Marking the 400th anniversary of the first major European ethnic cleansing, an international, bilingual conference speaks of cultural unity. The “Moros, Moriscos, Marranos y Mestizos: Alterity, Hybridity Identity in Diaspora” continues this celebration Friday and Saturday to remember Spanish history and learn from it. The issues addressed in the conference are still applicable in today’s world, said Enrique Lamadrid, the director of Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies. “Things that happened 400 years ago are still very much with us,” he said.
Students will soon have the chance to voice concerns to ASUNM senators about everything from campus lighting to new dorms. The undergraduate student government will host a town-hall meeting Monday in the SUB Atrium.
In response to the Feb. 15 stabbing, about 70 students, faculty and staff traipsed about campus Thursday looking for safety hazards. The Office of Student Affairs and Student Affairs vice president Eliseo “Cheo” Torres organized a campus safety walk.
UNM is responding to the Feb. 15 student attack by holding a campus safety walk tonight. Students will meet in front of the Saggio’s in the SUB at 6 p.m.
The search for the next School of Engineering dean has narrowed to three final candidates, each of whom will visit campus over the next two weeks. Daniel Fleetwood, Patrick O’Shea and Gregory Washington will each have the opportunity to present and conduct an open forum with students, faculty and the community before the Provost makes a final decision. Fleetwood, chair of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, was the first of the three to visit UNM.
The Arts and Sciences Advisement Center is moving to a bigger and better location this week. The center will be closed until Tuesday to complete the move from Ortega Hall to the Student Services Building, according to an e-mail sent to all Arts and Sciences students on Tuesday.
The reporters at the New Mexico Independent were happy to hear that the special session of the New Mexico Legislature was postponed for five days. Having spent hundreds of hours liveblogging the torturous 30-day legislative session, the staff of the online news source kept New Mexicans informed about how their officials were spending tax dollars.
Computers in one of UNM’s largest departments were hacked last semester, disabling hundreds of terminals and shutting down online services for a week. But no personnel or student information was stolen, said Chris Vallejos, Institutional Support Services spokesman. “I don’t believe it was a virus.
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