by Rivkela Brodsky Daily Lobo The GPSA election results were certified Monday night, making Buckner Creel the officially elected president. The results had been uncertified since the April 7 election because a student group filed an appeal on April 6 contesting online voting.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo UNM received $670,000 from the Legislature to start a program aimed at keeping New Mexico medical students in the state as doctors. The two main goals of the joint bachelor's degree and medical doctor program are to increase student diversity and provide doctors for places in New Mexico that need them, said Jennifer Riordan, spokeswoman for the Health Sciences Center.
Monday's article "Journalist critiques media" incorrectly identified the network of "Democracy Now!" Pacifica Radio Network broadcasts the show. In Tuesday's Daily Lobo article, "Violist plays tones of Brazil," the information number was incorrect. The correct number is 277-8534.
by Jessica Del Curto Daily Lobo The mob of Girl Scouts passed around the saw, preparing to slice the zombie. "Duey, we get a merit badge if we bring back a head," 12-year-old Danna Derrick said. Then the director yelled cut. CR Productions is a local film company in the process of filming "Necroville.
by Rivkela Brodsky Daily Lobo The results for the GPSA presidential election are still not official. Members of the Student Bar Association filed an appeal on April 6, a day before the election ended. Buckner Creel was unofficially re-elected GPSA president by 408 votes on April 7. According to the rules of GPSA, an election cannot be certified until any challenges to the election are resolved. The appeal stated not all graduate students received notice of the election, because only students with CIRT net IDs are included on GPSA's e-mail list. Other than advertising in the Daily Lobo, all official elections appointments were sent out on the GPSA e-mail list. But they were not disbursed to GPSA members who were not on the list, according to the appeal. The appeal also states access to voting was not equal because only students with CIRT net IDs were allowed to vote online. Michael Neill, president of the Student Bar Association, said the group protested the election because two-thirds of graduate students were excluded from notices and online voting.
by Katy Knapp and Brandale Mills Daily Lobo For the fourth year in a row, University Libraries is asking UNM students to fill out a survey to identify what the library is doing right and what needs to be improved. Johann van Reenan, interim director of Zimmerman Library, said 450 academic libraries across the nation are participating in the survey.
Dana Kursh has a personal connection to the Holocaust - her grandmother was a survivor. She said her grandmother hid in a friend's cupboard for months to avoid being found by the Nazis. Her grandmother's eight siblings did not survive. Kursh, a vice consulate of Israel in Houston, came to the Hillel House on Sunday to speak about Turkey's involvement in the Holocaust.
Man gets 5 years for sex photos with girlfriend CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - A Clovis man has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a girl while being photographed. Marcus Ray, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child by manufacturing and one count of sexual exploitation of a child by prostitution, a statement from the district attorney's office said.
by Karina Guzzi Daily Lobo A study looking at inequities in salaries among men and women at the University will start with faculty at the College of Arts and Sciences. Interim Provost Reed Dasenbrock said the study will look for patterns in inequity, including gender and ethnicity differences.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Amy Goodman said America needs a people's media because of the reliance on corporate media. She said at a talk Saturday that independent media should be a place to report news from the perspective of people, not a venue for government or corporate influence.
by Paula Bowker Daily Lobo In his three years as a parking enforcement officer for UNM, Mike Griego said he has been told off about 36 times. He said he was spit at once. "I think it was someone who didn't like Parking and Transportation," he said. "It might have been someone I had given a ticket to.
by Leeanne Clark Daily Lobo On Monday, 31 hybrid cars were registered with the City of Albuquerque. By Wednesday, there were 38. People who own a hybrid car get to park Downtown for free. An ordinance passed by the City Council and approved by Mayor Martin Chavez allows hybrid vehicles to park for free at all city meters.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo The executive director of the Student Press Law Center said ASUNM's issuance of a subpoena to the editor in chief of the Daily Lobo was "ludicrous." "The whole idea of subpoenaing an editor because they have concerns about the content of a paper is just ridiculous," Mark Goodman said.
"Maybe on parts for my car. Video games, I like to play a lot of video games. Clothes. Just basic stuff like that." Elias Griego freshman "I don't see anything else I'd really want to use it for. I'm happy with everything the way it is." James Bolton Junior "Most importantly would be to spend it on the students, because we're paying for it and its future.
by Brandale Mills Daily Lobo The Recording Industry Association of America is suing 405 students at 18 universities for illegally downloading music. Because of increasing music theft on a high-speed university network called Internet2, the association is taking action by filing copyright infringement lawsuits against students at schools such as Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo The ASUNM Senate voted 18-2 Wednesday night in favor of issuing a subpoena to the Daily Lobo's editor in chief. The subpoena instructs Marisa Demarco to attend an Associated Students of UNM meeting on April 27, three days before her term ends.
Students call trip to Cuba a humbling experience DAVIS, Calif. (U-WIRE) -Ten University of California-Davis students returned to the United States humbled after immersing themselves in a culture foreign to their own. The group returned Mar. 14 from a 10-week abroad experience in Cuba that few universities are able to offer.
About 40 UNM students took a vow of silence on Wednesday. The vow commemorated a national Day of Silence, which protests discrimination of gays and lesbians, said Justin Stewart, co-chairman of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Questioning Alliance on campus.
by Karina Guzzi Daily Lobo Student Mack Neal won one of 10 $150 research stipends with his research on advertising effects on multiracial and biracial communities at the undergraduate research symposium on Wednesday. "I decided to enter and got lucky," Neal said.
Members of the Unite slate celebrated their victory in the ASUNM election Wednesday night by listening to country music. "My whole slate is with me right now - we're excited," newly elected ASUNM president Brittany Jaeger said. Jaeger received 925 votes.
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