The Anderson School of Management is hosting Career Week, beginning today, to help students get a job after college. Career Week, which ends Sept.14, attempts to prepare students for ASM’s Sept. 16 Career Fair through mock interviews, résumé workshops and other events.
Senior Emily Haynes was so overcome with emotion when she received the first-ever Phyllis Perrin Wilcox Scholarship that she could only use sign language to express her gratitude.
ASUNM sent a resolution that would allow the UNM community to take Veterans Day off back to committee during its first meeting Wednesday. Sixteen senators voted in favor of sending the vote back and four voted against.The same resolution passed during the Graduate and Professional Student Association meeting Saturday.
Architecture Dean Roger Schluntz announced his plans to retire next year after a decade overseeing UNM’s School of Architecture.
David Brancaccio is host of NOW, a weekly news and analysis program that airs on PBS. In April, Brancaccio and his team were awarded the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Coverage.
Information Technology Services has changed the way students and community members access Lobo-WiFi.
A campuswide e-mail sent out Aug. 27 gave some students the impression that the Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention would be disclosing the locations of DUI checkpoints. “As a service to everyone, COSAP will be sending you notices of upcoming checkpoints throughout the year,” the e-mail stated. Jill Anne Yeagley, COSAP program manager, said the message was misinterpreted. “The e-mail in question wasn’t a lot different from e-mails we have previously sent to students, so I was surprised that it would be interpreted to mean we were going to provide checkpoint locations,” Yeagley said in a follow-up e-mail the next day.
The tobacco-free campus policy went into effect over a month ago, but designated tobacco-use areas are still being marked. Of the 12 smoking areas on campus listed on the UNM Smoke Free Campus Web site, four are not physically marked.
A man police suspect of stealing five bicycles valued between $2,250 and $12,500 was arrested on campus July 24. UNMPD said Charles Gutierrez has been sawing through protective chains and cables to steal bicycles and pawn them for at least two years.
Daily Lobo: Why are you majoring in education? Genell Burns: That’s a good question. DL: Why are you carrying a gallon of water? GB: I get thirsty sometimes. DL: How many gallons of water do you think you drink a day? GB: Um, less than one.
UNM Mailing Systems has suspended the policy that prevented Ph.D. candidate Nina Lanza from getting her tango shoes delivered at work. Debra Fondino, associate director of University Services, said the entire Mailing Systems policy manual — including Section 6340, which prohibits personal mail from being delivered through the University — is under revision and has been for the past six months.
Today is Monday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2009. There are 122 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Aug.
NMSU was ranked more than 40 spaces higher than UNM in a recent report listing America’s best colleges. The Center for College Affordability and Productivity ranked UNM No. 239 and NMSU No. 193 in its second-annual list published Aug. 5 in Forbes Magazine.
A report published by an American studies class attempts to strengthen relations between UNM and the city that surrounds it. The “Report on Community Engagement and University of New Mexico Campus Development” was published Aug.
KUNM volunteers passed a motion Aug. 26 to have a legalistic clause, added by the University, struck from their procedures manual. They also resolved that they have no confidence in the UNM administration and sent a letter stating as much to President David Schmidly’s office.
Six Republican politicians visited campus Thursday, helping students register to vote and sharing their platforms with passersby. UNM College Republicans brought the group — including possible Republican candidates for governor Allen Weh, Doug Turner and Janice Arnold-Jones — to the Duck Pond during the annual Student Organization Day.
Daily Lobo: I was just looking through your issues that you have posted online, so I’m going to ask you a couple questions based on that.
Richard Romero has worked in Albuquerque for the last 35 years, serving as a legislator in the Senate and as a teacher and principal in local high schools.
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