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Watchers focus on rape

Iliana Limn | March 30

A new group called Campus Watchers is trying to draw attention to sexual assault on campus and hopes to bring the UNM community together to fight the problem. The group is made up of members of the Agora Crisis Center, a student-run crisis hotline; Students Educating Peers About Sex; Triota, a Women’s Studies honor society; Rainndrops, a national anti-sexual assault group; and Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center. “This isn’t a response to any single incident, it’s more of a response to the complacency and lack of knowledge about sexual assault,” said Jeremy Jaramillo, president of Students Educating Peers About Sex. “You can read a lot into the word ‘watchers’ and understand what this group is about. We want people to become more aware and watch out for others on this campus.”

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WNIT reward for roller coaster season

James Barron | March 29

After the adversity the UNM women’s basketball team went through this year, dealing with the pressures of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship game was a reward for the team’s efforts toward the end of the season.

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Holocaust survivor to speak on campus

Angela Williams | March 29

Author Benjamin Jacobs will tell his story about how he survived the Holocaust to UNM students tonight. Jacobs, who wrote The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir, will speak on campus at 7 p.m. in Woodward Hall, room 101. Shelli Rosenfeld, Student Special Events speakers’ director, said she the speech is part of a speakers series. Rosenfeld said she chose Jacobs as one of the speakers because she thought the Holocaust was something different to talk about. She added that many students don’t know about the personal effects of it because New Mexico does not have a very large Jewish population. “It’s not a big thing out here,” she said. “But now, with the opening of the Holocaust Museum, people are becoming more aware of it.” Rosenfeld said Jacobs will talk about how his profession saved his life during in the death camps. She said because he was a dentist, the Nazis assigned him to pull the gold teeth from bodies after they had been burned, in addition to dental testing and examining.

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Site caters to the eclectic cowgirl

Justin Bailey | March 29

During Shana Gibson’s reign as Miss Rodeo New Mexico, she discovered that cowgirl queens have needs that can be tough to fulfill.

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Senate funds more student groups

Alma Olaechea | March 29

One ASUNM committee allocated $882 to Students Educating Peers About Sex to fund salaries for the rest of the semester, while another passed three changes to the Law Book Wednesday night.

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Payne tanks stadium proposal

Angela Williams | March 29

City Councilman and mayoral candidate Greg Payne outlined problems with the proposed baseball stadium and the Albuquerque Police Department Wednesday at a College Republicans meeting.

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Fans turn out to support UNM

Lel and Wyman | March 29

When the Ohio State University women’s basketball team came to the Pit, the largest crowd they had seen all season was about 8,000 people

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End of the Road

Francisco Ojeda | March 29

The UNM women’s basketball team suffered a bitter disappointment Wednesday night, losing a nail-biter in the National Invitation Tournament Championship to Ohio State University 62-61 in The Pit. The Lobos lost a late lead because of some careless mistakes, and the Buckeyes made several clutch plays in the final minutes to get the victory. UNM could not get going offensively all night and helped keep OSU in the game with some untimely turnovers. The quickness of Buckeyes bothered the Lobos offensive sets. “Their pressure got to us and that was the difference,” Lobo head coach Don Flanagan said. “They got out in the passing lanes and we had way too many turnovers. The main thing was that they were too quick.” The sellout Pit crowd stood in shock as Ohio State thwarted a Lobo celebration with two long 3-pointers by tournament Most Valuable Player Jamie Lewis and four free throws.

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UNM banks on salary bill for budget

Iliana Limn | March 28

University administrators are crafting next year’s budget with the hope that Gov. Gary Johnson will approve faculty and staff salary increases. Julie Weaks, interim vice president for Business and Finance, said the group has a committee looking at different funding possibilities, including a variety of possible tuition increases, with the expectation that Johnson will sign the bill.

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Student funding fight intensifies

Alma Olaechea | March 28

ASUNM President Jennifer Liu signed a constitutional amendment that cancels New Mexico Daily Lobo funding and cuts what many thought was a proposed increase in funding for Conceptions Southwest and Best Student Essays. Members of the Daily Lobo staff and Student Publications realized Tuesday night that the amendment will decrease funding for Best Student Essays and Conceptions Southwest, though it appears to give the both of the student publications a 1 percent increase. Instead of receiving 2 percent each, the groups will have to split 3 percent — getting only 1.5 percent each.

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Councilman to speak on campus tonight

Angela Williams | March 28

City Councilman Greg Payne hopes to promote and improve student interest in city government when he speaks at a College Republicans meeting on campus tonight.

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GPA hike could hurt students

Iliana Limn | March 27

Leaders of the College Enrichment Program are concerned UNM's changes to the Bridge to Success Scholarship's requirements will close doors to high school students planning on attending the University. UNM has changed the scholarship's minimum grade point average requirement from 2.5 to 3.0.

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Faculty Senate laces up for a marathon meeting

March 27

The UNM Faculty Senate has assembled a marathon agenda and will tackle a variety of issues during its monthly meeting today at 3:30 p.m. in the Kiva Lecture Hall.

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Students urge Johnson to sign scholarship bill

Iliana Limn | March 26

ASUNM representatives are encouraging students to let Gov. Gary Johnson know how much the lottery scholarship means to them and urge him to sign a bill that would shore up the scholarship. The governor has two lottery scholarship bills on his desk that must either be signed or vetoed by April 6 or they will be pocket vetoed, or automatically killed by his inactivity.

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TVI student dedicated to blood

Joseph Sullivan | March 26

TVI student Shae Martin devotes most of her time shuttling blood to city hospitals and shipping it statewide. Martin works in the hospital services division of the United Blood Services. With airline flights to small cities in the Southwest recently reduced, Martin said blood deliveries to smaller hospitals in New Mexico take more time. All flights to Hobbs, N.M., were cancelled late last year and flights to other New Mexico cities such as Roswell, Alamogordo and Clovis are so infrequent that hospital services representatives looked to reliable, but slower, alternative transportation for blood supplies.

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Staff votes for unionization

Iliana Limn | March 23

The United Staff of UNM won the right to represent educational support employees at the bargaining table Thursday. Of 1,050 eligible voters, 658 cast ballots with 531 voting to unionize and 127 voting against it. The union met the minimum number of votes to make the election valid — 630 votes or 60 percent. The group easily met the simple majority it needed to win the election.

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Vietnam veterans share horrors at UNM

Angela Williams | March 23

Thursday marked the 34th anniversary of the night J.D. Roerig lost his squadron and almost lost his life in Vietnam. Roerig, a Vietnam War veteran, was crying as he recounted the horror of his experiences at a veteran panel on campus Thursday.

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Senate passes <i>Lobo</I> funding cut

Alma Olaechea | March 22

The ASUNM Senate approved a constitutional amendment that proposes elimination of all funding the undergraduate student government allocates to the New Mexico Daily Lobo — which is $38,000, or 5 percent of the paper’s budget. The bill eliminates student funding of the paper but increases funding for Conceptions Southwest and Best Student Essays from 2 percent to 3 percent of the student fees the Associated Students of UNM receive annually.

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Scholars: Internet is not always easier classroom

Jenna Naranjo | March 22

Mark Smith of the American Association of University Professors said that distance education will have a great impact on UNM's future.

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Vietnam veterans to speak today about war experience

Angela Williams | March 22

The History Undergraduate Association is hoping to give students a broader view of the Vietnam War era during a panel discussion Thursday.