Like everyone else, President Schmidly doesn’t know what kind of budget cuts the State Legislature will mandate at its January session. However, he does know how to deal with the cuts when they arrive. At the Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities committee meeting Thursday, Schmidly outlined his priorities in budget reductions and reallocations.
A UNM graduate student is fighting to complete his master’s degree after he was deported in August.Immigration offcials arrested student “Juan Santiago” on campus this summer, Santiago said. Santiago requested his name be changed to avoid repercussions as he tries to return to America. Enrique Lamadrid, chairman of Spanish and Portuguese, said Santiago is not the only student who left UNM because of deportation issues.
Philip Bock protested outside of Popejoy Hall on Wednesday just like he did 40 years ago. Bock, a retired anthropology professor, held basically the same sign and had the same message, while the same performance went on inside Popejoy — Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem.” Forty years ago, Bock said he and a dozen other protesters stood outside the performance hall to speak against the Vietnam War. “We didn’t argue with people,” he said.
Thanks to a design by students for students, the dirt field outside the Centennial Engineering Building will no longer be an eyesore next semester. Tapy Hall housed the civil engineering department until Aug.
The pot pioneers of New Mexico are meeting in Santa Fe on Friday to show support for the Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Program. The DOH is holding the meeting to consider approving new medical conditions, including Hepatitis C, that could warrant patients having a cannabis I.D.
Pre-historic caverns in Carlsbad may have put the small city on the map, but locals are concerned a man-made cavern might take the city off it. Salt mining has left a cavity beneath a main intersection on the south side of town that threatens to collapse any day, said George Veni, member of a city committee working on the issue. “What we have right now is a cavity down below.
In a few short months, students living in the Hokona residence hall will have fresh vegetables growing outside their windows. Alex Borowski, a freshman living in Hokona, planted a garden in the courtyard about a month ago, and he said most of the produce should be ready by March or April. “It used to just be this big patch of dirt.
By the end of this week, the Agora Crisis Center may reach a record 10,000 calls for the year, said Jeremy Jaramillo, ACC director of public relations. Jaramillo said when he first started working at Agora nine years ago, the center received about 1,200 calls per year. “We’ve been increasing steadily,” he said. The Agora Crisis Center is an all-issue hotline that community members can call to talk about issues from everyday stress to suicides in progress.
The launch of the UNM Foundation’s fundraising campaign next fall will coincide with a transition of the organization’s administration. Foundation President John Stropp announced Friday that he plans to retire at the end of this fiscal year, after a replacement is found and trained for his position. In January, the Foundation should launch a nationwide search for a replacement who can take over the campaign, Stropp said. Stropp, 65, became Foundation president in June 2008.
The number of requests for public records has increased more than twofold this year, forcing the University Custodian of Public Records to ask for narrowed searches and extended deadlines. Between 2005 and 2008, the average number of Information and Public Records Act requests was 65.
Daily Lobo: What is your favorite Christmas song? Travis Smith Houston: 30 Days by NeverShoutNever! DL: Who do you celebrate the holidays with? TSH: I did celebrate with extended family, but now my parents live around south Texas.
The Provost’s Office will not outsource the UNM Press warehouse operation, but several employees still aren’t confident that their jobs are safe. Joyce Perz, who works in Accounts Receivable at UNM Press, said a memo sent by the Provost’s Office contains language that makes her question the future of UNM Press’s warehouse department.
Students in ASUNM Community Experience are helping bring holiday cheer to Albuquerque charities. In the middle of the SUB Atrium, ASUNM CE has put up the Giving Tree — a large holiday tree decorated with requests for presents from children and families, said Hallee Kells, Community Experience events director.
Bill Hlavacek, a researcher with the Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, is working on a project that builds mathematical models used to describe cell signaling.
An international protest against the Prime Minister of Italy came all the way to Albuquerque on Saturday. Vito Sparacello and Sergio Tassoni, who are both UNM students from Italy, organized the event in Albuquerque and got attention from passersby as they rallied outside the UNM Bookstore.
Graduate and professional students will have winter break to consider their level of confidence in Athletics Director Paul Krebs and whether they want their student fees to support the Athletics Department. After nearly four hours of deliberation Saturday, the GPSA decided to place four items on the ballot for a vote in a special election that will be held online next semester.
UNM’s race car building team won’t have to skid to a stop after all. The Formula Society of Automotive Engineers is an annual international collegiate engineering competition that allows students to design and build their own race cars.
Patrick Apodaca, University counsel, is leaving UNM for a senior legal and executive position at PNM, New Mexico’s largest electricity provider. Apodaca, a Harvard graduate, served as an associate counsel for President Carter from 1977 to 1981 and served as University counsel since 2006. Apodaca said he expected to work at UNM until his retirement, but then he got an offer from PNM.
UNM didn’t ask Vernon Tile for any past work experience or qualifications before the company completed the tile work at Johnson’s Olympic pool, said Robert Notary, Johnson pool project manager. The tiles around Johnson’s Olympic pool are already coming up and cracking, and the pool remodel was completed in March.
With over 19 Senators and 40 spectators packed into the ASUNM Senate hall to debate a resolution to endorse the DREAM act, Sen.
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