Over a dozen student groups organized a demonstration at Smith Plaza Wednesday in an effort to get student signatures in support of the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act would grant young, undocumented immigrants the ability to further their education, so long as they have graduated from a U.S.
The University offered community members another opportunity to comment on campus development plans on Monday. The Office of Institutional Support Services held two Master Plan open houses in the SUB — one for faculty, students and staff and one for the surrounding neighbors — to get input on the plan’s framework before the Master Plan is up for approval at the Sept.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Bookstore will host a group of UNM faculty authors for a talk and book signing at 2 p.m.
The UNM Queer Straight Alliance has seen about a 300 percent increase in membership since last semester. Ralph Baylor, a QSA member, said that about 10 people attended meetings last year, but now there are about 50 attendees at each meeting. QSA spokesman Jeffrey Waldo said a member from a San Francisco chapter was impressed when she visited a meeting at UNM.
Daily Lobo: Are you pre-med? Steven Gates: I’m hoping. I haven’t really decided. I’m pretty sure I’m going to go for my master’s and be a graduate student.
The University is a step closer to having an external audit, per the UNM Faculty Senate’s request last semester. The UNM Board of Regents Audit Committee met Friday and made a recommendation of how the state auditor should examine the University’s finances. Senate President Doug Fields said the regents should consider the faculty’s mistrust of the administration before making their recommendation. “Why can’t we just ask internally how the Rio Rancho Campus is being funded?
More than 60 smoking areas have already been removed from UNM’s campus — or, at least, 60 stenciled signs for a “UNM Designated Smoking Area.” Pug Burge, head of UNM’s Smoke-Free Environment Committee, said the red spray-painted signs appeared around campus after the Aug.
Robbery, burglary and arson are on the rise around campus, according to the UNM Police Department’s 2008 crime statistics. Drug law violations increased the most, with 10 more incidents than in 2007. UNMPD spokesman Lt. Robert Haarhues said most crime numbers from 2007 showed increases in the single digits for 2008. He said one crime that has been noticeably on the rise is arson. There was only one incident of arson in 2006, but that jumped to five in 2007 and eight in 2008.
Abdullah Feroze, a UNM pre-medical student and ASUNM senator, is one of 10 finalists in the essay contest “World Briefing: Telling the Malaria Story,” which is sponsored by the nonprofit organization Malaria No More. Feroze contracted the parasitic disease on a visit to Ghana in 2008. If his essay receives the most votes on MalariaNoMore.org, he will travel to the Pan-African Malaria Conference in Kenya.
UNM is paying former Mexican president Vicente Fox $25,000 to speak on campus today, to the dismay of some students and faculty members.
National researchers and UNM students are teaming up to conduct interdisciplinary experiments that could advance the field of biology and improve your life. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, gave UNM, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories a $14.5 million grant for interdisciplinary research, said Bridget Wilson, co-director of the Center for Systems Biology. Wilson said that thanks to the grant, more than 50 biologists, mathematicians and engineers will participate in projects at the center focusing on a wide variety of projects, including creating microscopic robots, over the next five years. “If you break it down to its parts, it has scientific goals, recruiting goals, training goals and outreach goals,” she said.
Thirteen parking spaces in Albuquerque became miniature parks Friday as part of nationally recognized Park(ing) Day. Park(ing) Day was first celebrated in 2005 by San Francisco art collective Rebar.
As of Wednesday, both the undergraduate and graduate student government bodies support having Veterans Day off at UNM.ASUNM passed the Veterans day resolution during Wednesday’s senate meeting, after the Graduate and Professional Student Association passed the same bill Aug. 31. In the final ASUNM vote, 10 senators were in favor of the redrafted resolution, four were against, and there was one abstention.
A fire destroyed a vacant bedroom in the Telos House complex on campus at about 2:50 a.m. Thursday. The house, formerly known as the Lambda Chi house, is at the intersection of Las Lomas Road and Yale Boulevard. In the last 14 months, four fires have damaged the Telos House complex.
Albuquerque’s Oct. 6 mayoral election is fast approaching, and the non-partisan election has become a competition between Mayor Martin Chávez, Richard Romero, and Richard “R.J.” Berry.
The number of national scholars at UNM has more than doubled each year since 2007, according to the UNM Admissions Office.There are 77 national scholars enrolled at UNM, which is up from 38 in 2008 and 14 in 2007. “National scholars” is an umbrella term that covers National Merit Scholars, National Hispanic Recognition Scholars, National Achievement Scholars and National American Indian Scholars.
Stephen Wills is not pleased with UNM’s anti-smoking policy, and he let the UNM Smoke-Free Environment Committee know it at their meeting on Wednesday. “My grades dropped because of this,” he told the committee at an emergency meeting. The meeting was organized to discuss the Northrop Hall smoking area, which faculty say is sending smoke into the building itself.
On Friday, Sept. 25 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., a glance at downtown Albuquerque will deliver a startling view of people rappelling down the side of the 203 foot tall, 14 story New Mexico Bank & Trust Building. But don’t be alarmed by such a sight. It’s only a creative fundraiser for the Special Olympics.
The UNM School of Architecture and Planning recognized Travis Price, published author and founder of a successful firm, as their distinguished alumnus of the year. Price received the award at the school’s 9th annual Honors and Awards Convocation Ceremony, and almost a dozen students were awarded scholarships of up to $2,000. Price said developing his own architecture firm, Travis Price Architects, was already in the works before he graduated from UNM.
Gov. Bill Richardson got major applause early in his speech at Dane Smith Hall yesterday. “Full disclosure: I am for getting rid of the embargo,” he said.
Solutions by The State News
