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PIRG petitions to hire new employees
Staff Report | November 18UNM’s Public Interest Research Group is accepting signatures on a petition asking for student fees to pay for full-time PIRG employees.
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Orchestra has yet to settle contract dispute
Andrew Beale | November 18The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra is on the verge of bankruptcy. David Sherry, NMSO management spokesman, said a decision must be made in the next week or so to determine the orchestra’s fate. “If we don’t reach an agreement with the musicians by Thanksgiving, we will file for bankruptcy.
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Techno Guy settles with SUB over music dispute
Kallie Red-Horse | November 18Techno Guy and the SUB have worked out a deal, but it won’t necessarily bring peace and quiet to campus. English Professor James Burbank led a complaint against the loud music played by Josh “Techno Guy” Arellano outside the north end of the SUB last month. Since then, Arellano met with Ryan Lindquist, associate director of the Student Activities Center, to determine an appropriate volume level to play his boom box. “We had three meetings with Josh to work on his volume out there,” Lindquist said.
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Daily Lobo Spotlight
Pat Lohmann | November 16Daily Lobo: How long have you worked at the SUB welcome desk? Shonnetta Henry: Around a month and a half.
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GPSA: Krebs a poor leader
Pat Lohmann | November 16The Graduate and Professional Students Association will meet next week to discuss a no-confidence vote in Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs. All graduate students are invited to attend the meeting in the SUB on Monday.
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Art students upset over studio hours
Tricia Remark | November 16Fine arts students say they aren’t getting enough studio hours to finish assignments now that security is closing the Art Building at 11 p.m.
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Student with flu symptoms dies, another freshman hospitalized
Pat Lohmann | November 16Raymond Plotkin exhibited flu-like symptoms five days before checking into UNM Hospital, where he died Wednesday with what appears to be the H1N1 virus. Plotkin’s roommate, Esteban Martinez, said the freshman locked himself in his room and stayed away from classes to avoid spreading the illness before he was hospitalized.
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Conference urges drug use education
Andrew Beale | November 16Sean Luce helps patients in Berkeley, Calif., get medical marijuana. Narelle Ellington wants heroin addicts to have access to clean needles. Maria Mercedes Moreno works to secure human rights for coca growers. Advocacy groups from around the world and across the political spectrum converged in Albuquerque for the International Drug Policy Reform Conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center last week. These groups included Luce’s Berkeley Patients Group, Ellington’s Harm Reduction Coalition and Moreno’s Mama Coca, as well as the UNM Health Sciences Center’s Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and dozens more.
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UNM on-campus student with swine flu dies
Pat Lohmann and Kallie Red-Horse | November 13A UNM student and on-campus resident has died from what appears to be the H1N1 virus. Raymond Plotkin, an 18-year-old freshman who lived in the Redondo Village Apartments, died Wednesday night at University Hospital, according to an e-mail sent by Resident Life and Student Housing to all on-campus residents. “Residence Life and Student Housing (RLSH) sorrowfully wants to inform you that a resident of Redondo Village has died,” the e-mail stated.
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'Techno Guy' forced to pause his SUB tunes
Kallie Red-Horse | November 12Students passing the north end of the SUB on Tuesdays and Thursdays will have to find their own beat to walk to.
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Sorority hosts event to boost literacy rates
Kallie Red-Horse | November 12Pi Beta Phi had members of the UNM community twisting their tongues to Dr. Seuss’ rhymes Wednesday in an attempt to fight illiteracy in New Mexico. Competitors in the sorority’s second annual First Book Speed Read paid admission to read books aloud to children as quickly as possible at the Pi Phi house.
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ASUNM supports queer resource center
Mario Trujillo | November 12Five members of the Queer Straight Alliance stood in front of the ASUNM Senate Wednesday to make their case for adding a queer resource center at UNM. But by that time, the Senate was already sold on the idea, said ASUNM Sen.
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UNM provides 40 years of aid to historic district
Ryan Tomari | November 11The historic community of Martineztown, founded in 1823, was threatened by urbanization in the late 1960s. The area, also know as South Martineztown, is east of downtown Albuquerque and north of Grand Avenue.
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New tiles in Johnson Pool cracked, need repair
Tricia Remark | November 11UNM reopened Johnson’s Olympic pool after renovations in March, and the pool already needs repairs. Tiles surrounding the pool are coming up from the floor, and Johnson Center staff taped them down with duct tape.
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Student Health Center faces expected H1N1 vaccine shortage
Tricia Remark | November 10The Student Health and Counseling center only has 50 H1N1 vaccinations to ration between about 25,000 students. Vaccinations for the entire student body of UNM were expected to arrive in early October, but there’s already a month delay and still no clear distribution date in sight, said Beverly Kloeppel, director of SHAC. The H1N1 vaccine shortages are nationwide, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, and New Mexico has received only 0.48 percent of vaccines made in the U.S.
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Group aims to engage students in community
Mario Trujillo | November 10Students erected a Wall of Burning Issues on Monday in the SUB, and student Travis McKenzie recited a poem encouraging the UNM community to participate in the event.
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Taking steps toward shared governance
Kallie Red-Horse | November 10The Provost’s Office is trying to discern faculty members’ opinions on their stake in University governance. Provost Suzanne Ortega announced at the regents’ meeting Tuesday that her office would conduct a survey among faculty — many of whom are concerned about their role in UNM’s shared governance — to collect baseline data on faculty’s views on decision-making roles at the University before any changes are made.
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Question and Answer
Nicole Raz | November 9Senior Sarah Melendez participated in the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program with political science professor Gabriel Sanchez.
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Former governor to speak in SUB on drug legalization
Andrew Beale | November 9Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has favored legalization of marijuana since he held office before Bill Richardson. Johnson, a Republican, was an advocate for drug policy reform and decriminalization of marijuana while he served as governor from 1994 to 2002.
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Locksley incident brings policy shift
Pat Lohmann | November 9UNM President David Schmidly is recommending changes in Human Resources and University Counsel policies in light of the media outcry after head football coach Mike Locksley’s Sept. 20 physical altercation and the investigation that followed. Schmidly sent a letter to Athletics Director Paul Krebs recommending that the HR representative in the Athletics Department report to the University’s Division of Human Resources.
