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ASUNM senators vote in new agency

Arthur Simoni | September 26

The ASUNM Senate established an executive agency at UNM for the first time in 10 years during its meeting Wednesday. The Associated Students of UNM Senate voted unanimously to add the Community Experience as the seventh executive agency. It joins the Crafts Studio, Election Commission, Homecoming Committee, Lobbying Committee, Southwest Film Center and Student Special Events as committees that provide special services to the undergraduate student body.

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UNM students hit wall with business

Clay Holtzman | September 26

A group of UNM students who started their own on-campus delivery business have been told by University officials to stop operations this week due to a conflict with an exclusive food-service contract signed by UNM in September 2000. Barry Schneider, Jesse Kooperman and Elliott Paul, the three student owners of Underground Services, said they should have the right to run their own business on campus or at least be allowed to petition the University for a review of their request.

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N.M. Commission on Higher Education loses its director

Clay Holtzman | September 25

Bruce Hamlett, executive director of the Commission on Higher Education, publicly announced Monday his resignation because after nine years, he said he has accomplished the goals he established for himself. "Over time, your ability to get things done begins to wane," Hamlett said.

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Faculty regent motion passes first test

Angela Williams | September 25

UNM's Faculty Senate voted Tuesday to approve resolutions for both a new faculty regent on the Board of Regents and to hold an open forum for all presidential-search finalists. Faculty Senate President Beverly Burris said that the resolution to place a faculty regent on the board came from discussion and widespread support from faculty last year.

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Student charged with sex crime

Clay Holtzman | September 25

A former student of the UNM School of Medicine was arraigned Sept. 13 on six counts of third-degree criminal sexual contact of a minor - 16 months after he allegedly molested his former girlfriend's seven-year-old daughter. Christopher Tape, a former undergraduate student in the School of Medicine, is no longer taking classes or performing clinical rotations at the UNM Hospital, said Sam Giammo, director of public affairs for the UNM Health Sciences Center.

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Horse tests positive for West Nile in North Valley

Julian R. LuceroEmmons | September 25

In an announcement made yesterday at the Duck Pond, Rudy Bueno, Albuquerque environmental health supervisor, said that a horse in the North Valley has tested positive for the West Nile Virus. The confirmation makes Bernalillo County the eleventh county to report the presence of the virus in horses.

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Student regent to be selected this fall

September 24

by Ryan Floersheim Daily Lobo The UNM Student Regents' job is to help take the University to the next level of accomplishment, current student regent Eric Anaya said Tuesday during an ASUNM sponsored meeting for interested applicants. A new student regent will be selected sometime after Oct.

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NMSU program receives award

September 24

Staff Report The New Mexico State University Counseling Center's Choices Program has been chosen as the winner for the 2001-2002 Annual College and University Drinking and Driving Prevention Award. The award is sponsored by AAA New Mexico and the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, and includes a $1,000 award.

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$300 in cash taken from on-campus Pizza Hut

September 24

Staff Report The Pizza Hut concession stand near Ortega Hall was broken into and robbed some time between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday. The stand's manager told UNM police that an unknown person broke the rear door lock and stole a metal box containing $300 in cash.

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UNM helps raise money for AIDS victims with walk

Julian R. LuceroEmmons | September 23

Hit the Road-Albuquerque, the 2002 AIDS Walk, was at Johnson Field Saturday to raise money for victims of the HIV virus and AIDS. Thousands of people participated in the 5K walk from Johnson Field, through Nob Hill, and back to UNM. Opening ceremonies began at 9 a.

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Exhibit features Chicano art

September 23

Staff Report Chicano issues such as culture discourse, labor rights and the loss of ancestral lands are on exhibit through Nov. 1 at the Albuquerque Sunport. The exhibit, which is made up of three panels displaying photographs, literature, artifacts and historical documents, commemorates the work of several Chicano leaders as well as the role UNM's Chicano/a Studies program in establishing Chicano Studies as a legitimate academic field.

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Exhibit features Chicano art

September 23

Staff Report Chicano issues such as culture discourse, labor rights and the loss of ancestral lands are on exhibit through Nov. 1 at the Albuquerque Sunport. The exhibit, which is made up of three panels displaying photographs, literature, artifacts and historical documents, commemorates the work of several Chicano leaders as well as the role UNM's Chicano/a Studies program in establishing Chicano Studies as a legitimate academic field.

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Activist promotes American Indian rights

Ryan Floersheim | September 20

David Yeagley, a controversial conservative American Indian, spoke to a group of students, faculty and staff at UNM's School of Law last night. He was met with a less than friendly response.

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News in brief

September 20

President Bush asked Congress Thursday for authority to "use all means," including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he does not comply quickly with United Nations demands that he abandon all weapons of mass destruction. Separately, the White House pressed reluctant allies Russia and France to support a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing force.

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Public space work reaps award

Clay Holtzman | September 20

For his work on the study and design of the 6,000-year-old concept of public spaces such as plazas and markets, Mark Childs, associate professor of architecture and planning, has received this month's Faculty Acknowledgement Award.

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Second OEO director candidate visits UNM

Julian R. LuceroEmmons | September 20

Annazette Fields, the second of four Office of Equal Opportunity director candidates, presented her qualifications, including discrimination investigation, educational background and experiences for the OEO office to University officials and students at a forum Thursday.

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Rentention scores high in '02 statistics

Angela Williams | September 19

University College Dean Peter White said that UNM is already making large strides in retaining students - a statement backed up by the official 2002 enrollment report. "A lot of students are under the impression that we have a very bad problem with retention rates and I don't think that's any longer true," White said.

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Climate debate comes to UNM

September 19

Staff Report Issues of global warming, greenhouse gases and the Unites States' refusal to ratify the Kyoto Pact have sparked interest in the issue of global climate among many Americans. That debate will be coming to UNM tonight when meteorologist and climate researcher Richard C.

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Quest to guard forests a battle

September 19

SANTA FE - People might not single out John Horning as executive director of Forest Guardians. In short pants, sandals and untucked shirt, the 35-year-old Horning looks more like a laid-back English lit major than the passionate and committed point man for an aggressive environmental organization.

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Kilmer joins in on buying trees

September 19

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - A distant cousin of "Trees" poet Joyce Kilmer has planted the 20 millionth tree for the Global Releaf Program of American Forests, a national conservationist group. The poet's shirttail relative, actor Val Kilmer, who has branched out into poetry himself, planted a sawtooth oak Wednesday at Ashley Pond, a Los Alamos park.