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Scientists eye White Sands for Mars tech testing ALAMOGORDO (AP) - NASA scientists need a place to practice for more explorations of Mars and, after a visit to New Mexico, three of them think they may have found just the spot to test their theories: White Sands National Monument.


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Youth department celebrates officers

The Children, Youth and Families Department of New Mexico honored juvenile officers earlier this month during National Probation and Parole Officers Week. The CYFD hosted a banquet to recognize the more than 200 officers who work with New Mexico's youth.


Lambda Theta Phi fraternity members Peter Estrada, left, and Gian Chaves hang a banner for a July 25 banquet at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
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UNM fraternity receives award

The UNM chapter of Lambda Theta Phi fraternity recently received an award from its national headquarters for chapter of the year. Lambda Theta Phi was founded in 1975 and was the country's first recognized Latino fraternity. In 1998 the UNM chapter was chartered on campus.


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Regents vote to change public records policy

The Board of Regents voted Aug. 12 to change University policy to comply with the Inspection of Public Records Act, ending months of deliberation on the issue. The IPRA is a state law that says all documents created by a public body such as UNM are eligible for inspection.


Student Zachery Watkins was recently named a Fulbright Scholar and will travel to Germany to be a teacher's assistant in a high school English class.
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Two more Fulbrights for UNM

Albert Palma and Zachery Watkins are the latest of more than a dozen Fulbright Scholars to come from UNM in the last five years. The Fulbright Scholar Program has promoted international exchanges at UNM since the program was founded in 1946. Watkins was awarded the grant in order to travel to Germany to be a teacher's assistant in a high school English class.


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Library moves to 24-hour schedule

Starting Aug. 25, students will have a place to study 24 hours a day, five days a week. The Parish Memorial Business and Economics Library, located north of Zimmerman Library, next to the Anderson School of Management, is extending its hours at the start of the fall semester.


Rueben Marcias guides Jorge Aragon's backhoe during construction on the campus water system.
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UNM giving campus a face-lift for the fall

You may hear a constant pounding sound when you return to campus this fall. Don't worry - it's not all in your head. UNM is working to upgrade its water system and give the campus a face-lift by the end of this semester. Two large construction projects will upgrade the campus water infrastructure and Castetter Hall in the coming months.


Student veteran David Valdez works in the Veterans Office in Student Services. Valdez said he hopes more student veterans will take advantage of the new GI Bill.
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New GI Bill extends veterans' benefits

Congress approved a new GI Bill in July, which will take effect in August 2009. The bill includes changes that will add more benefits for veterans who want to go to college. Darrin Kowitz, a graduate student who established a support group for veterans at the University last year, said the new GI Bill is long overdue and has almost double the funding of the previous one.


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The Year in Review

Sept. 17 Turan O'Henry Johnson, a 34-year-old transient from Chicago, is charged with battery and held without bond in a mental health unit at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. Johnson was charged in the case of attacks on more than 20 male Indian students on and around campus.


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Regents to vote on records spat

The University administration and faculty will try again to address proposed policy revisions designed to comply with the Inspection of Public Records Act at the regents meeting on Aug. 12. President David Schmidly sent an open letter to the UNM community July 24, after the IPRA Compliance Working Group proposed revisions to three policies concerning the Act.


The racecar designed by UNM engineering students is tested during the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition.
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Students place well in auto competition

UNM engineering graduates are impressing international automotive companies with their competition-winning race car designs. In this year's Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition, the UNM team placed eighth in acceleration, 17th in design and 24th overall out of more than 80 teams from across the globe.



Melynda Byers processes DNA as part of a study at the Mind Research Network's new neurogenetics lab.
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Domenici pushes for neurological research funding

Sen. Pete Domenici has long been an advocate for mental health, and the Mind Research Network considers him a pioneer for its cause. "We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Pete," laboratory manager Marilee Morgan said. Domenici and a few researchers from Los Alamos National Labs founded the MRN a decade ago.


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Electronics plant could stimulate NM growth LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A Taiwanese electronics manufacturing plant just south of the Mexican border could be a major catalyst for economic growth in southern New Mexico, state officials say. Construction began this past week in San Jeronimo on the first phase of the sprawling complex, that, when completed in three to four years, will employ 20,000 people.


Sen. John McCain speaks during a town hall meeting July 16 at Hotel Albuquerque. McCain's speech focused on Iraq and Afghanistan and rising tuition costs.
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McCain speaks on war, tuition costs

In a visit to Albuquerque on July 16, Republican presidential candidate John McCain discussed U.S. involvement in the Middle East and suggested students should join the armed forces or the Peace Corps to pay increasing tuition prices. Before giving the floor to audience members for questions, McCain spoke about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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Spotlight: Dhara Shah

Junior Psychology Daily Lobo: Are you from Albuquerque originally? Dhara Shah: Yeah. DL: How do you like it? DS: I like it. I miss it. Like, the nature and the hiking and you can see everything around you, because I live during the school year in DC. I go to college there.


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Border arrests down in El Paso area Las Cruces (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico and two west Texas counties, has apprehended 25,466 illegal border crossers nine months into the current fiscal year, 58 percent less than this time last fiscal year.


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Alford caught in controversy

Last week, UNM men's basketball coach Steve Alford got caught between the athletics department and Sheriff Darren White, who is running for Congress. White's campaign released invitations to an event hosted by a UNM lobbyist, advertising photos with Alford for a $1,000 donation.


Walter Rohloff holds a sign in protest as the Year 5 Coalition pays a fine for property damage which occurred during protest over spring break.
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Protesters pay for vandalism cleanup

On Friday, anti-war protesters from the Year Five Coalition met on campus to march a $200 reimbursement to the Student Activities Center. The payment was for campus property damage that occurred during a spring break protest. Over spring break, protesters left red handprints on UNM signs, sidewalks and streets near the Public Policy building on Sigma Chi Road.


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