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September 2

USC fraternities caught breaking rush regulations (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - Fraternity brothers from at least two different houses disregarded Interfraternity Council rush rules on dry houses and events last week, giving underage rushees access to unlimited bar tabs, acess to alcohol and marijuana at the houses, introducing them to sorority girls, and promising at least one rushee cocaine, a Daily Trojan undercover investigation found.

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Lottery scholarship appeal not automatic

Erin Raterman | September 2

Students who lost their lottery scholarship may find it's not so easy to get it back. More than $27 million was awarded to Lottery Success Scholarships recipients in 2004, said Jim Perry, director of finance for New Mexico Commission on Higher Education.

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Tenure gives UNM profs job security

Rachel Stohr | September 2

Tenure is a good gig if you can get it. If professors are tenured, it takes the president of the University and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure to fire them. Instructors are subject to a six-year probationary period and undergo a comprehensive evaluation in a tenure track.

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Academic renewal wipes the slate clean

Felicia Fonseca | September 1

Laura Chamberlin was the kind of student who would rather hang out with friends than go to class. She was 18 when she started college and had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. She got straight As in some classes and skipped to the extreme in others.

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UNM forms legislative agenda

Manuelita Beck | September 1

The next legislative session may not begin until January, but UNM already has the lobbying ball rolling. UNM President Louis Caldera will solicit proposals from faculty, staff and students to formulate UNM's legislative agenda, said Carlos Romero, director of government affairs.

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September 1

Iraqi extremists may have slain Nepalese hostages BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.

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Phones a common sight on campus

Katy Knapp | September 1

According to the Federal Communications Commission, an estimated 61 percent of 18-to-24-year olds carry cell phones. The FCC estimates about 5 percent of the country has dropped its telephone landlines in exchange for cell phone use. Dave Herzel, Zimmerman Library circulation manager, said the growing trend of cell phone use on campus is what prompted the libraries at UNM to create a cell phone policy.

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Diet fads affect long-term health

Erin Raterman | September 1

After gaining the dreaded freshman 15, fad diets often promise students a quick and easy way to lose unwanted poundage, but they can also harm a student's physical and mental well-being. Diet pills, the grapefruit, raw-food, meat-only, daily starvation, green tea and fruit juice diets are all methods used to quickly rid the body of excess weight.

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UNM's Special Project Legislative Priorities

Manuelita Beck | September 1

The six projects in listed order are: State Support for Research The proposal asks for legislative funding in the amount of 1.5 percent of the previous year's research funding from grants and contracts. "It is simply a mechanism that President Caldera wants to use to get the Legislature to recognize the research mission of institutions," said Curt Porter, UNM budget director.

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Upper-level classes left to profs

Rivkela Brodsky | September 1

Despite UNM's No. 14 ranking in the Princeton Review for having too many upper-level classes taught by teaching assistants, Teresita Aguilar says it is a rare occurrence. Aguilar is the dean of the Graduate Studies Office and said she hadn't heard of the rankings.

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Early birds get single rooms

Rachel AlaimoMonson | August 31

Freshmen who live on campus face the uncertainty of living with someone they probably haven't met before on an unfamiliar campus. About 2,400 students choose to live on campus every semester. After acceptance into UNM, students requesting a dorm room fill out an application and put down a deposit to secure a place in a residence hall.

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Voters could need IDs at polls

Marisa Demarco | August 31

Willow Cornelius has been canvassing on campus with the New Voters Project since January and says an order issued by a state District Court judge Friday will undermine the vote. "I think it's targeting (young voters) - bottom line," she said. The New Voters Project is working to increase the youth vote, Cornelius said.

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Paying off the teacher comes at a high price

Mandi Kane | August 31

It may not be a good idea to ask instructors what their annual salary is, but the Public Information List of UNM Employees in Zimmerman Library has it if you really want to know. The salary book at the Reserves Desk is a 146-page list with the names, job titles and annual salaries of all 7,549 UNM employees as of July 31.

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Romero urges better trade

Rivkela Brodsky | August 31

State Sen. Richard Romero said globalization isn't necessarily a bad term. Romero, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. District I House seat, spoke to a crowd of about 30 at the Center for Peace and Justice on Monday night. "A lot of us like to blame globalization, but really it's the economic policies of the past few years," Romero said.

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Vaccine saves lives, limbs of college kids

August 30

by Bob Groves The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) HACKENSACK, N.J. - For the price of a pair of sneakers, John Kach probably could have saved his fingers and legs. Kach, a college student in Rhode Island, believes vaccination against meningitis would have kept him from contracting the bacterial illness - which most likely happened in his dormitory - that led to the loss of his limbs four years ago.

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Campus ROTC branches join in honor society

August 30

by Mike Weber Daily Lobo When Capt. Adam Loomis is a young lieutenant in Afghanistan or Iraq, he will need close air support. If that time comes, he said he will be much more comfortable with his military counterparts. Loomis is the first student leader of the Scabbard and Blade National Honor Society.

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Nader calls for lower tuition costs

Matthew Chavez | August 30

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader told a packed Lobo Room at the SUB the similarities between the Democratic and Republican Parties tower over the dwindling differences, and he's running to offer a new choice. Nader said as president he would work to eliminate college tuition.

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Linking UNM to the future

Rachel AlaimoMonson | August 30

Project LINK will bring UNM's 20-year-old information systems into the 21st century. The job is in the hands of a team of UNM employees, many of whom have been pulled from their regular jobs to be a part of a multi-year endeavor called Linking Information Networks and Knowledge.

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August 30

125,000 without power as storm slams S.C. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina on Sunday with near hurricane-force wind, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people.

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Fall Crawl to attract 10,000 music lovers

Felicia Fonseca | August 27

At 7 a.m. Saturday, Fifth Street will be shut down between Central and Copper avenues. At 5 p.m. Central will be shut off between Second and Sixth streets and at 9:45 p.m., it will be shut off up to Seventh Street - all for the 2004 Alibi Fall Crawl. Fall Crawl, a night featuring over 100 national and local bands, happens every August.