Recipients of honorary degrees from UNM no longer have to attend commencement to get their degrees, according to an agreement reached at the Board of Regents meeting Tuesday. The University awards honorary degrees to people who have made significant contributions to a certain field but don’t have the ultimate degree in that subject area.
After months of negotiations, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Player’s Association has finally ratified a contract, but the musicians still might not be ready to play a happy tune.
Registration can be a stressful time, especially with finals right around the corner. Thankfully, there are some things students can do to make the process less traumatic. Students can check their own personal registration date by signing into my.unm.edu.
Daily Lobo: Do you know what you want to major in? Cid Fairbanks: Media arts. I’m transferring from the Art Center Design College. DL: Why are you transferring over? CF: Well, it’s cheaper and I always wanted to go to UNM since I was little.
No stall doors in restroom potential health and safety standard violation Male students and employees are paying for “illicit sexual activity” that occurred a dozen years ago in the men’s bathroom near the north entrance of Popejoy Hall. The Physical Plant Department administration removed stall doors from the bathroom in the late ‘90s after reports of criminal sexual activity, said Gary Smith, associate director of Environmental Services at PPD. “The reason the doors were taken down was because of the illicit sexual activity that took place in there,” he said “The new art building is the same way because apparently (the) same things happened there.”
I went to Peru over Thanksgiving break from Nov. 21-29. The country is beautiful, with mountains that make the Sandias look like speed bumps.
Mute for nearly three months, Shannon Garbiso is no longer tongue-tied about her role in investigating a Sept.
Steve Elardo is a UNM graduate student doing research at the Institute of Meteoritics. He came to the institute after completing undergraduate research related to rocks on Mars at Stony Brook University on Long Island, N.Y.
UNM students are aligning with a national organization to correct a minor deformity that plagues children worldwide. Students organized the UNM chapter of Operation Smile, a national non-profit organization that helps kids with cleft palates and lips get corrective surgery.
What starts as a candlelight vigil might become a public debate about health care. On Thursday, Democrats from the Albuquerque area are gathering at Nob Hill to honor Americans who have passed away because they didn’t have health care.
Two armed security guards greeted UNM students as they walked into their Peace Studies class on Tuesday. Although the scene was unfamiliar to students, it has been all too familiar for the guest lecturer, Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. “We had two death threats before coming in,” Weinstein said.
A former colleague of Shannon Garbiso is speaking out about what she says her friend feels she cannot. Maria Garcia, a former Human Resources consultant, attended the Nov.
If you weren’t one of the 350 people who heard about the free H1N1 vaccines, take it up with the Student Health and Counseling Center. SHAC did not advertise — except on Cornell Mall — that the vaccines would be available on Friday and Monday for anyone under the age of 24, said SHAC Director Beverly Kloeppel.
Daily Lobo: So, what languages do you know so far? Homero Montoya: Right now, I’m working on French, English, Chinese and Spanish.
Graduate students will have a chance to voice their opinions about UNM athletics and two University administrators in a GPSA vote. After two hours of deliberation during its meeting on Monday, the Graduate and Professional Students Association decided to hold an online election to give graduate students a chance to vote no-confidence in Athletics Director Paul Krebs and Vice President of Human Resources Helen Gonzales.
Hundreds of on-campus students skipped dinner at the dining hall last Tuesday to help New Mexico’s less fortunate.
The case of the “Coronado Creeper” is closed. UNMPD had a suspect in the alleged breaking and entering and criminal sexual contact of three women in Coronado Hall that occurred Oct.
Maggie Seeley, Sustainability Program lecturer, is an expert in third world community development and working with small organizations in India, Nigeria and Brazil.
Seven members of the Bridge slate filed a contest of election on Friday, but on Sunday they rescinded their complaints. “We think as a slate that any infraction should be addressed … and if it is not addressed, in the future it is not corrected,” said Travis Maestas, a Bridge slate member. Yet Maestas said the Bridge slate wouldn’t have had enough evidence to present a strong case against the BAM!
Inspectors find food stored at unsafe temperatures by Andrew Beale At their last inspection, three restaurants near campus received at least four health code violations. Perico’s on Yale received an “immediate closure” notice, but the burrito restaurant’s permit was reinstated the same day.
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