Mike Locksley has jokingly likened himself to former Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight, and they’re starting to mirror each other in reputation as well as appearance. To date, Locksley has more legal troubles than wins. The list includes a pending sexual harassment lawsuit and, now, allegations of battery.
Key members of the GPSA voted Saturday to follow the New Mexico Open Meetings Act to the letter. The Graduate and Professional Student Association, meeting as a committee-of-the-whole, voted in support of a constitutional clause that would require members to follow all provisions of the state law that requires legislative bodies to open their meetings to the public.
On top of preparing for the Rio Grande rivalry this weekend, the NMSU community had to deal with a bomb threat and a drive-by shooting. The drive-by shooting on Monday started near the Doña Ana branch of NMSU and moved on campus.
A small fire broke out in the basement laundry room of Hokona Hall late Friday morning, damaging at least one dryer and causing smoke to circulate throughout the building. Dorm residents and staff evacuated the building, and no one was injured, said Kerry Horton, Albuquerque Fire Department battalion commander. “It looks like (the dryer) probably just overheated,” he said.
A small fire broke out in the basement laundry room of Hokona Hall late Friday morning, damaging at least one dryer while smoke circulated throughout the building. Dorm residents and staff evacuated the building, and no one was injured, said Kerry Horton, Albuquerque Fire Department battalion commander.
Lobo Louie might be in the doghouse after his apparent fling with a pin-up girl from Route 66 Casino. The pair performed in two commercials released about a month ago, and Lobo Lucy isn’t the only one upset about it. The ads, filmed in partnership with UNM’s exclusive gaming sponsor, depicts the casino’s billboard beauty in a cherry “Lobos” midriff top, skimpy spandex shorts and bright red stilettos. In one ad, the camera focuses on the woman bent over with her cleavage showing while she blows a kiss in the mirror.
About a dozen students marched into President David Schmidly’s office on Thursday to deliver a petition calling for an exception to the smoking ban. The petition, which had 415 signatures, requests a lift of the smoking ban outside the dormitory areas for the next two years.
UNM is preparing for an H1N1 outbreak. The Student Health and Counseling Center, Provost’s Office and University Hospital, among others, are working together to combat the virus.
“Sardines in a tin” is not a phrase people want to associate with dorm life. But in August, 90 students moved in to triple-student dorm rooms. Now the Lobo Development Corporation and the Board of Regents are working to provide more on-campus housing for students, said Kim Murphy, UNM planning officer. The Master Plan includes a new residence hall for upperclassmen, which would likely be built on south campus, he said. “This is part of an overall strategy to add about 2,000 new beds to our inventory of on-campus housing,” he said.
The Office of Enrollment Management wants to raise requirements for admission. UNM’s current entrance requirements for freshmen are a 2.25 GPA and completion of 13 college preparatory classes.
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.
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