The ASUNM Senate unanimously passed its budget for the 2003-04 fiscal year Wednesday with $310,404 out of $485,747 going back to funding for the Associated Students of UNM. The ASUNM student agencies — Community Experience, the Crafts Studio, the Elections Commission, the Homecoming Committee, the South West Film Center and Student Special Events — accounted for most of the $310,404.
Man exposes genitals in popular 7-Eleven store A 7-Eleven clerk’s generosity of giving a homeless man a free hotdog was rewarded with an unwarranted look at the man’s genitals after he exposed himself inside the popular convenience store just north of campus.
Jacque Garcia If Jacque Garcia, a member of the Vision slate, is elected to the ASUNM senate, one of her top priorities will be bringing ideas from the UNM community back to the student government for implementation, she said. Garcia, a freshman majoring in psychology, said getting the word out about the Associated Students of UNM is crucial to the organization’s effectiveness.
UNM presidential candidate Louis Caldera said his interest in leading UNM is to help the University in any way he can and to build support from the state and beyond. "We need to find the resources that the University needs," Caldera said. "You are all to be commended for having a very fine University with very highly regarded programs.
by Stephanie Candelaria Daily Lobo With fewer than 25 employees, the Mid-Rio Grande Chapter of the American Red Cross depends on a core of trained volunteers to fulfill its mission in the local community. Now, a small group of UNM students will do its part to help the international humanitarian organization.
UNM senior Nick Trudell said he will make a good ASUNM Senator because he is very organized, in touch with the needs of the students and easy to approach. Trudell, a member of the Cherries to Silver campaign, said that his main objective, if elected, will be to bring the fun back to the UNM campus.
ASUNM senatorial candidate Matt Hanson, who is running as a member of the Vision slate, said that if elected, he would like to push for faculty evaluation forms that would be accessible to students. "I think it would make the faculty more responsible if they knew students could look up an evaluation, filled out by other students, and decide whether or not they want to take the class," he said.
A dispute between a driver and a pedestrian turned deadly Tuesday afternoon after a male victim was shot with a small caliber handgun while inside the Mail Boxes Etc., 2132A Central Ave. SE, directly across from campus. The man died while being transported to University Hospital, said Albuquerque Police Department Det.
ASUNM senatorial candidate Justin Landis, who is running under the Cherries to Silver campaign, said that, if elected, he would like to see all of the organizations on campus get the recognition they deserve. "I would like to personalize UNM and help the various organizations in getting more appreciation," Landis said.
Elections for the Associated Students of UNM senators, the vice president and president will be held April 16. The Daily Lobo will be running profiles of each candidate today, Thursday and Friday. Josh Parsons Josh Parsons, an ASUNM senate candidate running with the Horizon slate, said communication between UNM students and the administration is a vital priority.
Junior Jenny French is running for re-election to the ASUNM senate because she said she believes the student government goes a long way helping students at UNM. French, who is a member of the Horizon slate, said that her slate's goals would create a safer and cleaner campus.
Junior Keith Lopez said he is running for ASUNM senate because he has a lot of pride in UNM and he wants to provide a voice for all students. "Campus-wide involvement with ASUNM is very important," Lopez said. "As a senator, being a familiar face, saying, 'hey, I'm here, this is what your senate does,' that is how it's supposed to work.
Applications for the 2003 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, a week of workshops for beginning and advanced writers to sharpen their skills, are being accepted until April 15. Since its first year in 1999, the conference, sponsored by the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, has played host to more than 120 writers at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center in Taos to participate in writing workshops, public readings, writers’ panels and related special events.
BASRA, Iraq (AP) — British forces took control of the heart of Basra on Monday, met by few pockets of resistance and greeted by hundreds of people who shook their hands and welcomed them to Iraq’s second-largest city. Royal Marine commandos seized a vacant, pink-hued marble palace belonging to President Saddam Hussein.
An American bomber struck a residential complex in Baghdad on Monday after U.S. intelligence received information that Saddam Hussein, his sons and other top Iraqi leaders might be meeting there, U.S. officials said. There was no immediate word on who might have been killed,..
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (AP) — With Baghdad under siege, President Bush and ally Tony Blair discussed plans Monday for finishing off Saddam Hussein’s government and resolving differences over postwar Iraq. “The hostilities phase is coming to a conclusion,” said Secretary of State Colin Powell, accompanying Bush aboard Air Force One to this British territory with its own decades-old history of violence.
by Jodi Hunley Daily Lobo The Fair Trade Initiative, a UNM group advocating better treatment of farmers, said at a meeting on Monday that Aramark would begin serving Fair Trade Coffee on campus as soon as shipments arrived. Fair Trade coffee will be served at Dane Smith Hall and the SUB tent, said Brandt Milstein, the group’s president.
Border patrol takes more than 1,000 pounds of pot ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 1,300 pounds of marijuana were seized by border patrol agents during five separate traffic stops over the weekend. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection announced Monday that the largest bust included 703 pounds of marijuana that was hidden in a load of frozen food being transported by a tractor-trailer.
An internationally known photographer and filmmaker who has won several awards for his films about American-Indian identity and representation will be conducting workshops and speaking about his work beginning today and continuing through Thursday.
Staff Report Seven UNM graduate programs within the college of fine arts and the schools of medicine and law have been ranked among the best in the nation this year by the U.S. News & World Report. The weekly news magazine, which according to its Web site began its annual ranking of more than 1,400 accredited colleges and universities nationwide in 1983, provides the service to aid its readers in researching how their particular school's academic program compares with those of its peers, or schools with broadly similar missions.
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