Lissa Knudsen won the GPSA presidential seat for 2009-10. She will take office in mid-May. All eight of the GPSA amendments passed, and the two motions of no confidence in President David Schmidly and Executive Vice President David Harris passed by margins of more than 70 percent.
Construction of two Main Campus parking structures is scheduled to start at the end of the semester. The Board of Regents approved the project at its meeting Thursday. The two structures will cost about $29 million and will be funded by bonds sold in 2007, according to UNM.
Tuition for in-state students will increase by 5 percent next year, and tuition for out-of-state students will go up by 10 percent. The Board of Regents unanimously approved the increases during the Budget Summit on Thursday. Undergraduate students will pay $5,102 in tuition and fees for the 2009-10 academic year, $268 more than last year.
GPSA election results: GPSA President: Lissa Knudsen (55 percent) Council chairman: Danny Hernandez (uncontested) No-confidence in President David Schmidly: passed (73 percent) No-confidence in Executive Vice President David Harris: passed (83 percent)
Special projects at UNM will have to shave their budgets to accommodate cuts from the Legislature and the University. Marc Saavedra, director of Government & Community Relations, said the Legislature cut about 28 percent from funds for special projects, not including ethnic centers such as El Centro de la Raza.
Among the three slates campaigning in the upcoming ASUNM election is Liber, whose platform rests on making student government representative of student needs. The candidates on the Liber slate are juniors Patricia Neddeau, Jessica Nixon, Ruben Pacheco, Sara Saba, Kristen Weil, and sophomore Ben Sugg.
What would you like to see the funds from a tuition increase go toward? Robin Walden Graduate History "Not a rec center, for (a) start. Getting tenure-track positions for faculty. Or anything, actually, to do with education and not athletics and wasting money on various other things, basically.
March 30-April 3 Two cars were burglarized on campus this week. One was parked in South Lot; the other was in D Lot, east of La Posada. A third car was stolen from the UNMH parking structure. March 31-April 4 Fourteen skateboarders were stopped and cited for unlawful use of public property this week.
Alcohol-related deaths, ODs on the rise in NM ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Despite recent success in lowering drunken driving deaths, overall alcohol-related and drug overdose deaths are still rising in New Mexico, leading health officials to call for the state to expand its work to prevent substance abuse to save lives.
Students might see a $100 increase in student fees to fund the construction of an additional recreation center, said Kim Kloeppel, vice president for Student Affairs. Students voted to support the building of a recreation center on campus, according to a survey conducted in February.
UNM Continuing Education's DWI Education program has been working to improve security after a breach in 2007. The program - designed to educate first-time licensees in New Mexico about DWI laws and prevention - operates in conjunction with the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
ASUNM and GPSA share a few initiatives they hope the Board of Regents will fund during the budget summit today. Tuition, scholarships and searching for alternative sources to fund University Libraries and bus passes are four issues the student governments addressed in their budget recommendations to the Board of Regents.
Fourteen recycling bins were removed from the Student Family Housing complex and South Campus two weeks ago. All seven of the bins at SFH were removed, and seven of more than 100 bins were removed from South Campus. Serena Pearson, spokeswoman for Risk Management - which includes sustainability and recycling - said the bins were taken out to make the pickup route more efficient.
Nancy Ridenour said the U.S. health care system needs to shape up. Ridenour, who was appointed dean of the College of Nursing this year, said the system fails to treat patients with chronic diseases and share patients' medical records with providers. She said it could improve by more effectively translating health care research into policy.
GPSA presidential candidates B. Lee Drake and Lissa Knudsen sparred during debates last week, so the Daily Lobo decided to sit down one-on-one with the candidates to talk about their platforms. GPSA elections are being held online through Thursday. Daily Lobo: What things happening around UNM made you want to run for GPSA president? Lissa Knudsen: I really feel like the fact that students' voices need to be heard.
UNM will go tobacco-free on Aug. 1. That means no cigarettes and no chewing tobacco, except within designated smoking areas around campus, said Pug Burge, co-chairwoman of the Smoke Free Environment Committee. The committee has presented its revised campus smoking policy to campus groups, including GPSA and ASUNM, Burge said.
A new, exclusive student organization has joined campus. The Delta Alpha Pi honor society initiated its first members of the UNM chapter at a ceremony Friday. The organization recognizes the academic achievements of students who live with a documented disability and are proud of their academic accomplishments.
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