Just a week before election day, all six City Council candidates for District 6 who participated in a Monday night forum agreed that Albuquerque needs to focus its economic strategy on small businesses. "Small business is the engine that drives the train," Shane Canfield, a Democrat, told an audience of about 20 at UNM's Woodward Hall.
UNM President Louis Caldera signed two groundbreaking agreements Thursday with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California - extending research opportunities for students and approving shared ownership of intellectual property. "The number of opportunities it will create will be tremendous," Caldera said.
State Local army reservists to come home this week LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - The remaining 105 members of a U.S. Army Reserves unit based here are headed home from Iraq this week. Sandra Bramble, family readiness coordinator for the 647th Area Support Group for the Army Reserve in El Paso, said members of the 281st Transportation Company are scheduled to leave Kuwait late tonight.
UNM Music department faculty members are giving private music lessons in their University offices and allegedly breaking the law by not paying taxes on the income, a former graduate student said. Robert Starner, who studied music for five years, said department and College of Fine Arts administrators are aware of the situation and allow faculty members to educate each other on how to avoid paying gross receipts tax on money earned through the lessons.
Saturday morning 29 high school bands from throughout the Southwest will fill University Stadium with the sounds of music as they kick off the 26th annual Zia Marching Band Fiesta. The event is expected to draw a crowd as large as 16,000 people.
International Car bomb explodes near embassy in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Suicide car bombers struck in Baghdad for the third time in a week Tuesday, this time outside the Turkish Embassy in yet another blow against those who would help the U.S. occupation.
by Amber Dilley Daily Lobo UNM's Biology department was recently awarded a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center's Biomedical Excellence program in "Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology." Eric Loker, chairman of the department, said the grant is designed to enhance the level of funding for states that have traditionally been underrepresented by the institutes.
Partygoers beware: the Albuquerque Police Department's Party Patrol is up and running again after a renewed commitment by the city to fund the program. Nick Bakas, the city's chief public safety officer, said the city will spend $100,000 to $200,000 to revamp the 2-year-old program, which ran out of money early in the summer.
Despite occupying the cellar in Gallup polls for more than two months, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, continued a dizzying three-day, 11-state tour Tuesday in Albuquerque to formally announce his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. "This campaign will change America's role in the international community," Kucinich said to about 200 supporters during a fundraiser at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
The UNM Board of Regents approved a deal to swap land with the state Tuesday that could bring a large amount of revenue to the University during the next few decades. UNM will give the state most of Young Ranch - 9,620 acres near Cochiti Lake - in exchange for 2,400 acres at Mesa del Sol, south of the Albuquerque International Sunport.
One of Albuquerque's hottest nightspot has disappeared, leaving several unpaid bills and even more unanswered questions. Banana Joe's Nightclub, which moved into the 600 block of Central Avenue more than two years ago, was considered a victory in the city's efforts to revitalize downtown.
Saddam could be hiding, influencing insurgency TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein is believed to have been hiding out recently in Tikrit, influencing the anti-American insurgency, the U.S. military said Monday. Fresh attacks by resistance forces across central Iraq were reported to have killed three American soldiers and wounded five others.
by Neelam Mehta Daily Lobo Four out of every 10 UNM students are binge drinkers, said Peter Nathan, a psychology professor at the University of Iowa. Nathan gave the lecture "Binge Drinking at a Midwestern University: Implications for Prevention and Intervention" on Monday at Hodgin Hall.
Former New York police officer Peter Christ told a crowd of about a dozen UNM community members Monday night that drug prohibition in the United States doesn't work. "Prohibition is the definition of the times we live in today," said Christ, now vice director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
It would appear that the shoe is now officially on the other foot. A free Internet service, www.ratemyprofessors.com, gives students nationwide the opportunity to rank professors in three categories - easiness, helpfulness and clarity. Helpfulness and clarity ratings are combined for an overall grade between one and five, with the highest rated professors denoted with a red chile icon and a "hot" classification.
Staff Report UNM School of Medicine officials are designing a program to get more doctors to underrepresented areas of the state and recruit more minority students to the medical field. The program, still in its developing stages, would help promising University freshmen get provisional medical school admission to increase recruitment and retention of state residents in the school, said Ellen Cosgrove, associate dean of continuing medical education.
UNM Provost Brian Foster said the University is working to become an equal partner with other state entities to further New Mexico's push for economic development. The University has developed a plan that allows it to use its strongest attributes to benefit the state, Foster said.
Bob Anderson said his plan to spend Albuquerque's money on community development rather than "wars abroad" makes him the best candidate for City Council in District 6. Anderson, 59, and an adjunct professor of Western civilization and political science at UNM, is running on the Green Party ticket.
Steve Birdine spoke to about 75 people in the SUB Ballroom Saturday, urging them to change their lives and put his affirmative words into action, as part of the first UNM Black Cultural Conference. Birdine is the president and chief executive officer of Affirmations in Action, a diversity-consulting firm in Indianapolis.
One group of UNM students takes its religious beliefs seriously - broadcasting them on TV for thousands of viewers to see. Ryan and Kristie Gloetzner, both UNM undergraduates, are among 10 University students who intern for YTV, a locally produced television station based on Christianity.
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