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UNM works to reduce health insurance costs

Tricia Remark | January 29

With no national health care plan in America’s immediate future, the Student Health and Counseling Center is working to reduce insurance costs for students. The UNM Student Health Insurance Committee met Tuesday to discuss how to make health insurance affordable with benefits. Beverly Kloeppel, Student Health Center director, said students need health insurance because health care is expensive without it.

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Senator: Cut top 20 highest salaries

Pat Lohmann | January 29

State Sen. Eric Griego is taking time from his hectic schedule to send a message to UNM President David Schmidly: “In a bad economy where we’re asking students to pay more tuition, how do you justify two or three hundred thousand dollar salaries for 20 folks?” Griego introduced “Good Fiscal Judgment for UNM Salaries” to be voted on by the New Mexico Legislature.

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Hokona gardener loses his project

Candace Hsu | January 28

The Hokona Garden will no longer grow on the UNM Campus. “Our school has the six core fundamental principles, and the sixth one is sustainability.

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Holocaust anniversary keeps us vigilant

Andrew Beale | January 28

The Holocaust will never be forgotten, but Rudi Florian wants to make sure people don’t ever forget its lessons. National Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz prison camp, was Jan.

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University adjusts to fit more students

January 28

Student enrollment increased 7.3 percent for the 2010 spring semester over last year, according to the Division of Enrollment Management. Total student enrollment at UNM is now 26,148.

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Peace prize open for nominations to UNM community

Rita Jo Gutierrez | January 26

UNM community members who feel they’ve made the world a more peaceful place should consider nominating themselves for the Paul Ré Peace Prize. Candidates must be UNM students, faculty, staff members or retirees, and their work should promote or demonstrate their commitment to  inner and global serenity, Ré said. “Peace is just a kind of health … a mental and emotional and spiritual health.

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Committee: UNM, NMSU funds need evaluation

Pat Lohmann and Andrew Beale | January 26

The New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee is putting New Mexico’s largest universities under the magnifying glass.

Students Jasmine McDonald, right, and Jennifer Vaca gather their paper and plastic to-go containers in La Posada Dining Hall on Monday. Students tossed out thousands of disposable utensils and plates couldn’t be used due to pending inspection.

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LaPo's 'green' dishwasher generates paper waste

January 26

An illegal dishwasher at La Posada forced residents to eat their food on disposable plates, cups and plastic utensils.

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Daily Lobo Spotlight

Pat Lohmann | January 26

Daily Lobo: How many classes are you taking? Robert Moya: I’m only taking two right now. DL: What are they? RM: I’m taking an art studio class and an art history class. DL: Why are you taking them? RM: I was planning on pursuing an undergraduate degree in architecture, but I decided to go with undergraduate art and pursue a master’s in architecture later on. DL: So have you just started? RM: No, I’ve been sort of going to UNM on and off for three years or so.

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PIRG seeks student fees to hire professional staff

Kallie Red-Horse | January 26

UNM’s Public Interest Research Group is asking for student funds to assist them in recruiting statewide students for their organization and becoming a part of the larger PIRG community.

Student Kayla Lyall prepares to dance flamenco at the Roundhouse Rotunda in Santa Fe on Monday. Fearing budget cuts, representatives from UNM traveled to the capitol as part of UNM Day to highlight programs, departments and services offered at the state’s flagship university.

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University lobbies at Capitol for UNM Day

Leah Valencia | January 26

SANTA FE — New Mexico legislators were greeted Monday with a visit from several University departments and organizations for UNM Day. Fearing harsh budget cuts, the University put on its first-ever presentation to exemplify the value of the work done and opportunities provided at UNM.

Minerva Cook speaks with a client at Butt, Thornton & Baehr Attorneys at Law on Monday. Cook graduated from the UNM School of Law in 2007. The School of Law is celebrating its 60th anniversary and is accepting nominations for memorable people, historic laws, events, legal cases or civic solutions.

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Book commemorates 60 years of law

Tricia Remark | January 26

It has been 60 years since the first class of UNM School of Law students graduated. To celebrate, the school is creating a colorful book recognizing 60 special people, accomplishments or legislation, named 60 for 60. “It’s more than just a book,” School of Law archivist David Myers said.

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Athletics fights for majority of student fees

Kallie Red-Horse | January 25

The UNM Athletics Department requested more than $1 million of student fees at the Student Fee Review Board hearing Saturday, but the Department could not outline how the money would be allocated.

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Buying between the lines

Nicole Raz | January 25

Starting a new chapter each semester doesn’t have to be so expensive. Representatives from Samees’s Textbooks said they have been selling UNM textbooks for less than the UNM Bookstore since 2008. Students from CNM and UNM have bought books from Samees’s Textbookssaid Brian Yu, Samees’s Textbooks manager, but he refused to say how much his sales have increased.

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GPSA urges participation in Athletics election

Pat Lohmann | January 25

Graduate and professional students have the next four days to share their opinions about the UNM Athletics administration. The GPSA decided in late-December to have a “no-confidence” vote in Athletics Director Paul Krebs and his handling of the Sept.

Eva Dameron is the new Daily Lobo editor-in-chief. She started on Sunday.

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New editor encourages openness, originality

Staff Report | January 25

Being bitten by a viper in Barcelona over the summer left Eva Dameron with a 30 percent chance to live. If she can handle that, she can handle being the new editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. She showed up on the first day in her bathrobe to encourage a fun and comfortable working environment. “I didn’t want to worry too much on my first day, so my bathrobe is to remind me to not panic and that everything will work out,” she said. The Publications Board appointed Dameron as editor-in-chief Friday.

A wall of photos in the Holy Innocents Center for Life depicts women and their newborn babies.

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Not all centers created equal

Tricia Remark and Kallie Red-Horse | January 22

About six months ago, a female UNM student walked into Care Net Pregnancy Center on Candelaria Avenue expecting to get a pregnancy test.

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Officer kills mentally ill veteran in parking lot

Andrew Beale | January 22

On Wednesday, Jan.13, Iraq war veteran Kenneth Ellis was killed in a confrontation with Albuquerque police officers.

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Policymakers to decide Regent Koch's fate at UNM

Pat Lohmann and Leah Valencia | January 22

On top of wrestling with the budgetary deficit during the legislative session, New Mexico policymakers need to find time to confirm Regent Jamie Koch for another six-year term. Staff Council President Elisha Allen said Koch’s reappointment is probable.

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Break-ins raise issue of records' security

Pat Lohmann | January 21

Two break-ins in a month at the Student Support and Success Center resulted in thousands of dollars in damage, and the alleged thieves had access to confidential student information. Kathleen Sena, the University registrar, said academic transcripts and other documents containing sensitive student information could potentially have been left on the printer and in open bins in their printer room, which was visited by thieves during a break-in Dec.