Magistrate heads to trial this week on rape charge LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - There's no question that a Dona Ana County magistrate met up with a woman at a Las Cruces bar and the two returned to his car together. What happened in the car will be argued in court this week.
by Rivkela Brodsky Daily Lobo Six people will clean between 4,000 to 8,000 pounds of trash after Spring Crawl on Saturday night. "Six people is more than enough, or we think so," said Patrick Dyer, operations manager at the Downtown Action Team. The Downtown Action Team employs five people who clean up Downtown on a daily basis called the Clean Team.
by Aubrey Montoya Daily Lobo Kyrsten Sanderson, the Campus Greens' co-chair, said a recycling drive in the dorms gave her hope. "There's a system that exists, but no one really utilizes it," she said. "A lot of people who are involved in the Greens live in the dormitories and are fed up with seeing all this waste go to the regular Dumpster.
by Patricia Dworzak Daily Lobo Sixty-three percent of American adults do not get the recommended seven to nine hours of daily sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Kaela Kelly, a UNM student, said she got about two hours of sleep Wednesday night.
by Eva Dameron Daily Lobo Don Fotheringham says it is important not to confuse politics with patriotism. Fotheringham, who spoke to an audience of 23 people at the SUB on Wednesday night, asked the audience to compare three events: the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec.
Chuck Crespy, dean of the Anderson Schools of Management, said raising tuition 39.1 percent for the graduate school was a necessary evil. The school is facing an accreditation review in the fall and needs funds to hire more tenure-track faculty and create more educational programs.
Authorities arrest man for posing as professor EUGENE, Ore. (U-WIRE) - A Eugene, Ore., man impersonating a University of Oregon psychology professor was arrested April 13 after a student discovered he lied to her about his position, city police said. Checklin Jonathan Vaifale, 35, has been an active member of several campus clubs over the past two years under the guise of a student and a professor by the name of Jonathan Vaifalc-Valdez, according to Eugene police.
by Karina Guzzi Daily Lobo Inw-Mnw, a mummified dog, followed his master into eternity, as Egyptians made sure they had everything for the afterlife. "They didn't want anything to pass them by," said Salima Ikram, professor at the University of Cairo and director of the Animal Mummies Project.
Student fees are increasing by $10 but not to fund a new student section in The Pit. The Athletics Department requested an increase in the amount of money it gets from student fees to fund student-athlete scholarships. Rudy Davalos, UNM athletic director, said the increase in funding was necessary to support the 21 sports programs and more than 500 student athletes at the University.
April 13 An officer was dispatched to a Redondo East apartment after the smell of marijuana was reported coming from one of the rooms, a police report stated. The officer found a women talking to her resident adviser, according to the police report. The women told the officer she had smoked marijuana that morning and had a small pipe and marijuana in her room.
by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo A student section in The Pit will put students next to the opposing team and closer to the floor. The student section will move from the west side of the arena to behind the basket on the north side. The new section has approximately 662 seats.
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.
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