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Gov. Bill Richardson talks to Dale C. Alverson, medical director for the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research, about New Mexico's future use of the LambdaRail system after a press conference at UNM's Media Arts Center on Friday.
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UNM to benefit from high-speed network

It won't help students watch YouTube videos or download music faster, but LambdaRail will attract research scientists to UNM and improve distance learning, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS. Gov. Bill Richardson announced his support for the $5 million network connection Friday at UNM's Media Arts Center.


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Tara Aran Freshman Planetary sciences "It's a bad idea. War is something you can't necessarily ask for public opinion on, but I think he had a personal agenda. It seems like he takes revenge on the country as a whole and can't isolate the real party that was responsible." John Ogren Junior ...


Students Maren Marshall, left, and Yuliya Sofronova look for U.S. history class books Thursday at the Bookstore.
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Convenient but expensive

Student Leif Rotsaert said he spent about $450 on textbooks at the Bookstore last fall semester, but he hasn't tried to sell them back. "It's like pennies," he said. "It's not worth it." Rotsaert said he didn't pay as much this semester but still spent about $300. "Those (publishing) companies just want to make money off us," he said.


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Firm: UNM image still has a ways to go

UNM needs to work on its image, said Richard Kilmer, a principal of Kilmer and Kilmer, a brand consulting firm. Beginning in the fall semester, the company examined how the University represents itself at the request of the Board of Regents Advancement Committee.


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Overloaded server crashes MyUNM

The MyUNM Web site crashed Tuesday morning because about 2,500 students tried to login at the same time, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS Computing. "The system is appropriately designed to handle what we expect with concurrent users," she said. "But when everybody hit the login screen concurrently, that piece choked."



Student Mary Fortuin looks at mouse feces in her Coronado Hall dorm room Friday.
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Dealing with mice in Coronado

Student Mary Fortuin's room in Coronado Hall was occupied by unwelcome guests over winter break - mice that littered her room with feces. "It just makes my skin crawl," she said. "I know the mice aren't going to kill me, but their diseases might."


Atheist lobbyist Lori Lipman Brown, right, talks to student Finesse Mali Grant before a presentation she gave in the SUB on Tuesday.
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Atheism has its advocate

When Lori Lipman Brown began her job in 2005 as director and lobbyist for the Secular Coalition for America, she was worried about criticism. "I was fearful that everybody would hate me, and I would go from being a semi-beloved Nevada politician to a hated representative of atheists," she said.


Student regent Dahlia Dorman, center, laces up her skates with her sisters Dohnia, left, and Darcey on Saturday at the Outpost Ice Arena on Tramway Boulevard. Although Dorman doesn't compete anymore, she still enjoys figure skating with her sisters.
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New student regent chosen; awaits Senate confirmation

Law student Dahlia Dorman said she'll be practicing to be a lawyer by being an advocate for students when she becomes a member of the Board of Regents. Gov. Bill Richardson appointed Dorman to the student regent position Dec. 21.


History professor Jake Spidle looks at a reference book in the reopened reference section in Zimmerman Library on Tuesday. The east wing of the library reopened Tuesday for the first time since the fire in April.
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Library's east wing reopens after fire

Teresa Neely, director of Zimmerman Library, said she has been eager to reopen the east wing of the library since the fire in April. "We're very, very happy to open up this much larger space," she said. Fran Wilkinson, dean of University Libraries, cut the yellow caution tape blocking the east wing Tuesday. Neely said faculty and staff had to share offices for the last year and were grateful for the reopening.


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Suspected car thief nabbed by UNM police

Staff Report UNM Police arrested a suspected car thief Jan. 10 behind the Golden Pride restaurant at 1830 Lomas Blvd., said Lt. Pat Davis, UNM Police spokesman. When police tried to pull over Saul Puma, 21, he crashed a stolen vehicle into another vehicle driving down Lomas Boulevard.



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Smoking banned at Health Sciences

The Board of Regents Finances and Facilities Committee approved a resolution to ban smoking at the Health Sciences Center at a meeting Dec. 21.


Buffalo Soldiers Society of New Mexico members from right, Charles Summerset, Harold Pope and Van Sanders wait before the beginning of a parade in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday on Redondo Drive.
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Hundreds gather to honor MLK

About 500 people gathered Sunday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to march down the street that bears his name. Van Sanders, president of the Buffalo Soldiers Society of New Mexico, said King's vision should be kept alive. "All groups have to be a part of the dream," Sanders said. Sanders said King helped the U.S. overcome racism and organized multicultural events. King would have been 78 on Monday.



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Prepare yourself for a wet winter

After the record-setting storm crippled both interstates and dumped 11.3 inches of snow at the Albuquerque International Sunport on Dec. 29, it can be hard to imagine that no two flakes are alike.


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Heavy snowfall damages trees, buildings at UNM

A winter storm blew through Albuquerque over break, bringing more snow to the city than ever recorded. More than 13 inches of snow was dumped on campus on Dec. 28 and 29. It damaged trees and caused roofs to leak around campus, said Mary Vosevich, director of Physical Plant.


Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson prepares to give a televised interview after a memorial service was held for his ex-wife, Dee Johnson, on Saturday in the SUB.
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A tribute to NM first lady

Lou Ann Hillman said her sister, alumna Dee Johnson, was one of the hardest working first ladies of New Mexico, but her family and friends also remember her as a humble person who loved life, laughter and people. Johnson died of natural causes on Dec. 21. She was 54.


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University's first provost dies

Viola Florez, dean of the College of Education, said that when Chester Travelstead was dean, he would do anything to improve the college, even if it meant getting on his hands and knees to clean a mess.


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Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 30, the day before Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday. He was executed after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the massacre of 148 male Shiite Muslims in the Iraqi city of Dujail in 1982.

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