by Manuelita Beck Daily Lobo One of the bidders for the construction of the UNM Hospital expansion questioned the fairness of the bid process before the Board of Regents voted on Tuesday. The regents voted unanimously to award the contract for the UNMH Children's Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion to Jaynes/J.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo The UNM Staff Council established its first weeklong celebration to be held through Saturday. The Employee Health Promotion Program will give away smoothies in the Johnson Gym kitchen today from 12-1 p.m. for UNM staff members as part of the celebration.
Woodward Hall was filled with 100 voices and faces of Iraqis on Saturday. Independent journalist Zelie Pollon and photojournalist Laurent Guerin brought a glimpse into Baghdad's vibrant and dangerous life with their multimedia presentation, "The Baghdad Project.
Rain did not stop two dozen UNM Republicans from showing their support for George Bush July 15 at a Party for the President held at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. The party was one of 7,000 events held nationwide to "increase voter registration and expand the president's volunteer base," said Phil Garcia, a UNM student who organized the event.
Veterans and local peace activists spoke at TVI on Wednesday about the horrors of war. Tim Origer, a member of the Santa Fe chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, said his group protests the war in Iraq every Friday in Santa Fe. Origer, whose leg was blown off in the Vietnam War, set up a 168-foot banner adjacent to the food court.
UNM President Louis Caldera has been secretary of the Army, a Los Angeles district representative and vice chancellor of the nation's largest public university system, but he's never taught a class. One year ago this August, Caldera left his post as Vice Chancellor for University Advancement in California's public university system to become UNM's 18th president.
For business student Connie Lee, transferring to UNM was a learning process in itself. Lee said she dealt with the long, difficult process of getting classes to count for credit toward her degree when she transferred to UNM in fall 2003. She said living in California where she attended California State University at Fullerton was becoming expensive, so she made the move to New Mexico.
Proposed changes to the lottery scholarship program are not on paper yet - the governor's Task Force on Higher Education is keeping them all in a discussion phase. Two working groups made first reports on Friday to chairman Toney Anaya about changes that would affect New Mexico's Lottery Scholarship program.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo This week's rain dampened the ground, but there will still be no singing, making s'mores and ghost story telling around the campfire. Don Williams, director of New Mexico state parks, said the monsoon season will bring some relief to the state, but hasn't changed the status of fire restrictions in most parks.
CIRT security administrator Jeff Gassaway said Wednesday that an unknown and unauthorized party outside of UNM accessed a list of the University's Linux NetIDs and encrypted passwords. He said as many as 500 to 1,500 students use Linux, a flexible computer operating system, and urged all students to change their passwords.
It was a long night for Casey Malarcher. Malarcher, a graduate student and Ph.D. candidate, began defending his doctoral dissertation last Thursday at 2 a.m. from Seoul, South Korea. Malarcher said this is the first UNM Web conference that has reached three continents, and the first where the candidate has been outside the United States.
If you are reading this article, you are probably not among the growing percentage of college-aged Americans who are reading less. According to a survey released by the National Endowment for the Arts in July, only 57 percent of Americans read a book in 2002.
UNM College Republicans didn't have signs at the Democratic rally in Albuquerque on Friday - they had flip-flops. Midway through his speech, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was interrupted when the Republicans began clapping flip-flops over their head chanting "flip-flop, flip-flop.
The city ordinance that banned smoking in Albuquerque's restaurants a year ago entered its second and final phase Friday, expanding the prohibition to bars within restaurants. The second phase of the Albuquerque Clean Indoor Air Ordinance took effect July 3 and prohibits smoking in restaurant bars unless they are separately enclosed and ventilated to prevent the spread of second-hand smoke into dining areas.
Eliseo Torres ends each shower by rubbing rosemary onto his skin. The plant, which grows in New Mexico, can also be used to cook and to treat minor illnesses. It is something his mother used for earaches, and is an herb curanderos, or folk healers, use in their practice.
by Rivkela Brodsky and Felicia Fonseca Daily Lobo Enrique Lamadrid says unless the Office of Equal Opportunity discovers skeletons in his closet, he will be the new director of the Chicano/a Studies Program. About five offices need to sign off when a department selects a director.
Washing dishes in the kitchen sink has a theory behind it, but no one explained it until now. Professors Vakhtang Putkaradze and Peter Vorobieff and graduate student Keith Mertens describe the theory and experiment on hydrodynamic instability in a research paper published in Nature, a respected peer-reviewed science magazine.
The New Mexico Lottery Success Scholarship will likely receive record-breaking funds in the coming years, expanding access to students. On July 1, the New Mexico Lottery Authority announced a record $148 million in profits for the fiscal year ending June 30 - $11 million more than last year.
The UNM group that persuaded campus food-service officials to offer Fair Trade coffee will expand its campaign in the fall semester. Established in fall 2002, Fair Trade Initiative has pressed UNM officials to stop selling conventional coffee on campus in favor of Fair Trade coffee.
Jonathan Broyles has lived on Cornell Drive for three months. He said he parks in his driveway, but if he had to park on the street it would be difficult. Many residential streets around UNM are permit parking only because residents often find their driveways blocked and no place to park on the street.
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