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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Monday the Lobo incorrectly wrote that the Lobo men's soccer team is in the Mountain West Conference. The team participates in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
It may have just been some dirt to the naked eye, but it was a gold mine to a trained archeologist, and time was running out. The ruins of an adobe home thought to be over a hundred years old were the focus of a three-month archeological dig in Albuquerque's North Valley, and it will conclude today.
by Deborah Harvey Daily Lobo Textbooks can be an expensive part of attending any institution of higher learning, but students can turn to online companies such as eBay, Amazon, eCampus and Barnes & Noble. A survey commissioned by eBay showed 65 percent of students feel textbooks are expensive and more than 43 percent of students are turning to online services in order to save money on textbooks.
Adrian Rodriguez did not like the idea of his wallet taking a hit every semester because of his textbooks. Like other students before him, he turned to selling his old textbooks from home to offset the loss faced when reselling them to the UNM Bookstore.
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