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.
New Mexico’s budding space industry is blasting off, and it’s going to take the work of UNM students with it. Spaceport America, located south of Truth and Consequences and expected to open business to passengers in summer 2011, will host an education launch May 1 with a UNM project on board. Olga Lavrova, faculty adviser for the project, said the educational value of allowing students to work on the project offered a futuristic application of classroom concepts. “This was a great opportunity for them to take what they learned in the classroom as well as see a spaceship take off and land,” she said.
Student fees look, once again, like they’re going to increase by $10.10 to a total of $456.91 next year in order to fund three organizations and a Queer Resource Center. The groups and center were set to losing funding after Cheo Torres, vice president of Student Affairs, asked the Board of Regents not to increase student fees, a suggestion that conflicted with the Student Fee Review Board’s recommendation of a $10.10 increase in February. Torres rescinded the recommendation in a memo addressed to Provost Suzanne Ortega on Thursday.
The UNM Board of Regents may give a new meaning to cutting classes at today’s budget summit. Administrators will meet with several UNM departments in SUB Ballroom C to discuss and approve a final budget for the 2011 fiscal year. Raymond Sanchez, president of the Board of Regents, said that though UNM is facing a 7.7 percent reduction in state funding, he is confident the University is braced to handle it. “It has been a rough year financially and otherwise,” he said.
Campus Briefs UNM Student still doing that thing with his tongue In what area observers are calling “unsettling,” “awkward,” and “just perverse,” the guy in the SUB is still doing that thing with his tongue.
After 121 years, the UNM officially changed its name to the University of Notable Moneysuckers. More than 75 percent of University students petitioned the legislature to change the University’s name to a more appropriate slogan that reflects its mission. Student James Joons, organizer of the event, said he gathered more than 500 pages of signatures in a petition, presented to the legislature, from supporting students, staff and faculty.
I’m a little teapot, Short and stout, Here is my handle. Here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, The bubbles of hate and heat rise violently within me. The pain is overwhelming. I squeal a glottal banshee bleat, A piercing massacre of my state of matter … of my soul. We are all familiar with this teenage emo, diary poetry version of the nursery song “I’m a little tea pot,” but until last Wednesday never has the boiling point it describes been so real.
It’s been four days since UNM repealed its “dry campus” rules, and the Daily Bobo still can’t find a single sober person to interview. “Issshh ‘cuz we’re all- all are celebratin!” said Petey “Taz” Radisson, a drunk student.
Because everyone and everything seems to gravitate toward the Duck Pond, Daily Bobo editor-in-chief Eva Avenue got to wondering what’s at the bottom.
When Marc Smith’s name is mentioned at a poetry slam, the audience is supposed to shout, “Who cares!” So who cares that Smith, said to be the originator of the slam poetry art form, is coming to Albuquerque on Thursday? Albuquerque cares, said Danny Solis, Albuquerque Slam Poet Laureate. “Albuquerque loves poetry and the poetry slam, and Marc Smith is the founder of the poetry slam,” he said.
The Daily Lobo sat in on a conference call with the head of the Democratic National Committee and the head of the College Democrats of America. Tim Kaine, chairman of the DNC, and Katie Naranjo, president of the CDA, held the conference call Tuesday to discuss the new Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. The SAFRA is attached to the health care bill and will make college more affordable for students, Kaine and Naranjo said. Kaine said the bill will free up $68 billion in federal funds, which will go to help lower the cost of student loans. “It eliminates subsidies that are just not in it to private bankers by switching to a system of direct lending for federal student loans,” he said.
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