Emergency contraception is now readily available to women in Albuquerque and experts predict it will significantly lower the number of unintended pregnancies. A bill that passed in the last legislative session and became law in May allows the New Mexico Pharmaceutical Association to train pharmacists to prescribe the pills without a prescription.
Ross Kelly is not afraid - not now anyway. A recent graduate from the University Studies program, Kelly is the first person from New Mexico to be a contestant on NBC's "Fear Factor." The episode he was in aired last night at 7 p.m. No, Kelly didn't win the big prize, but he did win a trip to Brazil.
Raton school principal named in fraud complaint RATON, N.M. (AP) - Raton Middle School Principal Bill Nacarrato and a school district secretary have been named in a criminal complaint alleging fraud and conspiracy. The six-count complaint against Nacarrato and Cindy M.
A mostly empty SUB Monday afternoon translated into a light turnout for what ASUNM leaders expected to be a chance for students to voice their concerns about campus issues. During the past month, the Associated Students of UNM has advertised a Mid-Semester Tell-all in the Daily Lobo as an informal opportunity to hold the student government accountable.
Following a national trend, UNM's international student enrollment decreased this semester and officials said planned increases in federal scrutiny may lower the number even further. The number of international students admitted to UNM this fall dipped to 149 - down from the 223 enrolled last year, according to the Office of International Programs and Studies.
A UNM student organization may have been guilty of giving Albuquerque Journal readers the wrong impression Thursday. The UNM chapter of the Planners Network, an organization trying to get students involved in "progressive governmental planning," published the address of the School of Architecture and Planning and one of its telephone numbers in an advertisement it sponsored urging readers to vote against the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County unification election.
Rachel Urban has spent the last five days getting injections to increase the amount of stem cells in her blood. Tomorrow Urban, a UNM sophomore, will undergo blood transfusions for several hours to remove them, in the hope they will help save a 15-year-old from leukemia.
Staff Report UNM's Department of Family and Community Medicine is celebrating its 10-year anniversary of sending medical experts deep into rural pockets of the state to provide care for New Mexico's underrepresented populations. The Locum Tenens Program places University medical faculty, upper-level primary care residents and recent School of Medicine graduates in secluded areas of New Mexico.
Judges inspect entries of the 2003 UNM Pumpkin Carving Contest in the SUB Friday. The first place student winner, Melissa Bell, won a weekend night stay at the Marriot North hotel.
Staff Report The University raised more than $35 million from private sources in 2001-02, earning the UNM Foundation/Development office a spot in the Philanthropy 400, according to figures released Wednesday. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranks the nation's largest nonprofit organizations annually according to how much money they raise from private sources.
Staff Report The University raised more than $35 million from private sources in 2001-02, earning the UNM Foundation/Development office a spot in the Philanthropy 400, according to figures released Wednesday. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranks the nation's largest nonprofit organizations annually according to how much money they raise from private sources.
Children, dressed as everything from ninjas to fairies, filled the halls of the Martineztown House of Neighborly Service Friday for a Halloween party organized by three UNM organizations. Golden Key International Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars sponsored the party for the children who live and go to school in the area, most of whom come from poverty, said Andrea Otero, president of Phi Eta Sigma.
State Fire danger in northern NM unseasonably high SANTA FE (AP) - The peak of New Mexico's fire season has long passed, but federal, state and county officials say the danger of fire in northern New Mexico remains unseasonably high. They blame lingering drought and the bark beetle for the tinder situation.
Starting this weekend, UNM will send a new message to tailgaters at Lobo football games: The out-of-control partying stops now. The University is going to begin enforcing the University's already present tailgating policies more strictly than it has in past seasons, a UNM official said.
For the first time in recent history top UNM officials came together to make themselves available for questions and comments from the University community Thursday - a forum fueled by anger and frustration from many faculty members and students. A line of 19 people, with questions in hand, stretched through the SUB Ballroom and into the hall, waiting to address a seven member panel consisting of three UNM regents, the presidents of both University student governments as well as the presidents of Faculty Senate and Staff Council.
Mayor Martin Ch†vez unveiled a proposal last week aimed at preventing aggressive panhandling and reducing the risk of Albuquerque's citizens being intimidated or assaulted by street solicitors. The proposal went to the City Council yesterday, and if passed, it will take effect 60 days after publication.
Downtown nightspots Sauce and Liquid Lounge reopened two weeks ago after dramatic remodeling. Casey Seis, one of Sauce/Liquid's three owners, said the revamp was costly but necessary. "It was a fairly expensive remodel," Seis said. "But it's a cost that's fairly intrinsic to the type of business.
People parking illegally on campus with forged parking permits is a big problem at UNM, said Clovis Acosta, director of the Parking and Transportation Services department. Between 200-300 of the phony permits are confiscated from cars in University parking lots every semester, according to Parking and Transportation Services department numbers.
LOS ANGELES - Even as crews battled Southern California's ferocious and fatal wildfires, investigators were trying to determine who set them. "Over half of the fires in Southern California are of suspicious origin or definitely arson," said James Wright, chief of fire protection for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
"Unionizing is the key to success," was the message from one of the country's most noted political activists and labor organizers when she spoke at UNM Wednesday. Dolores Huerta, a native New Mexican who worked with such revolutionaries as Julio Cesar Chavez, spoke to a crowd of more than 100 at the SUB about the importance of protecting workers' rights and securing a level of treatment in all organizations, including the University.
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