On the heels of a GPSA special election addressing UNM Athletics, members of the undergraduate governing body weighed in, supporting a different view. The ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee passed a resolution 3-1 giving support to almost everyone in the Athletics Department – leaving out, but not condemning, Athletics Director Paul Krebs and UNM coaches.
New Mexico high school students might consider buckling down on their day-to-day schoolwork instead of putting all of their college admission eggs into the standardized test basket. On Wednesday, the Student Affairs Committee from the Board of Regents approved a redesigned admissions process that emphasizes high school GPA, additional college preparatory courses and a new grade-point average weighting system.
Students might not know that the 100 tall, blue columns around campus house emergency phones. When the red button on the column is pressed, the phone connects directly to UNM Police Department.
M.E. Sprengelmeyer may be the hardest-working newspaper man on the planet, a man described in a recent New York Times profile as working “to the brink of exhaustion, fueling late-night production sessions with nicotine and caffeinated energy drinks.” Sprengelmeyer owns the weekly Guadalupe County Communicator, based in Santa Rosa.
Two UNM researchers are examining stalagmites to study the link between winter moisture and the glacial climate shifts. Yemane Asmerom and Victor Polyak, researchers in the earth and planetary sciences department, work in two major labs at Northrop Hall.
Albuquerque’s largest universities, the city and the county are working in concert to address parking and transportation ills afflicting the UNM area. The Albuquerque City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday asking UNM, CNM and Bernalillo County to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding and contribute to a study examining alternative transportation possibilities.
The president of one of UNM’s peer institutions is making news by taking a voluntary 4.6 percent pay cut, but President Schmidly contends he’s been there, done that.
Daily Lobo: So are you excited to graduate? Darren White: Yes I’m very excited. DL: Do you know what you’re going to do after graduation? DW: I’m going to backpack Europe for as long as I can and then I’m going to take my LSATs before I go and when I come back I want to apply to law school.
UNM’s most effective and diverse teaching methods will be showcased Thursday in the SUB. “Sharing Best Practices: Culture and Identity” is a first-ever seminar highlighting UNM’s methods in teaching a diverse student body, said Jennifer Gomez-Chavez, director of Title V, an organization co-hosting of the event. “The whole focus of (the seminar) is to really celebrate how we recruit and retain our faculty, students and staff,” Gomez-Chavez said. She said UNM is a national leader in the area of campus diversity. “UNM serves as a national model for other universities, and they look toward UNM to figure out how they can work with their students from underrepresented populations,” she said.
If you don’t recall sending Facebook messages to your friends with links to ‘Get your best body now!’ or ‘Make money today!’ you are not alone. Online viruses have become a common problem on the social networking site Facebook.
Regent Jamie Koch was reappointed to a six-year term to the Board of Regents by the New Mexico state Senate by a vote of 31-5.
Regent Jamie Koch was confirmed for another six-year term to the Board of Regents by the state Senate by a vote of 30-5. Also, the Senate confirmed Regents Gene Gallegos and Emily “Cate” Wisdom by votes of 33-2 and 35-0, respectively.
SANTA FE Legislative bragging rights were center stage via the hardwood on Friday in a fight against cancer. The New Mexico House of Representatives hooped it up against the New Mexico Senate to benefit the UNM Cancer Center.
GPSA’s special election about the UNM Athletics Administration saw a record turnout, and all four questions on the ballot passed by margins of at least 30 percent. “This is an unprecedented number,” said GPSA President Lissa Knudsen.
The Queer Resource Center is one step closer to becoming a reality at UNM. The Graduate and Professional Student Association unanimously passed a resolution Saturday in support of the center. Jeffrey Waldo, a Queer Straight Alliance representative, said UNM is behind its peer institutions — many of which already have a Queer Resource Center.
GPSA’s special election about the UNM Athletics Administration saw a record turnout, and all four questions on the ballot passed by margins of at least 30 percent.
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.
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.
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.
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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