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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The History Undergraduate Association is hoping to give students a broader view of the Vietnam War era during a panel discussion Thursday.
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.
Mark Smith of the American Association of University Professors said that distance education will have a great impact on UNM's future.
Parts of Albuquerque and the UNM community got a taste of California’s power woes when a blackout that lasted about two hours hit the city Tuesday morning.
Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman told tales of alien abductions, showed slides of flying saucers and complained about blacked out military documents during his presentation, “Flying saucers are Real,” Monday. The Kiva Lecture Hall was packed for Friedman, who said he is the original civilian investigator of the alleged 1947 Roswell incident.
A variety of groups are sponsoring a forum on distance education Wednesday at 1 p.m. in room 123 of Dane Smith Hall.
Ona Savage, a union organizer and UNM staff member, said her faith in people has motivated her to continue to push for collective bargaining despite more than six years of hurdles. “I believe that we can make a difference,” she said. “I have served on committees for over 15 years with little results, and I believe that a union can make a difference.”
Sharon Tebben can remember a time when few women were on college campuses. She was one of only a handful women chemistry majors in a class of mostly men in the late '60s at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
UNM is ranked eighth on Hispanic Magazine's "Guide to the Top 25 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics" in its March 2001 issue.
Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman said he will show evidence of a "cosmic Watergate" during his presentation "Flying Saucers are Real" tonight at the Kiva Lecture Hall at 7 p.m. Friedman said he is the original civilian investigator for the 1947 Roswell incident and that the U.S. military covered up the wreckage and alien bodies found in the alleged crash.
International scholars will invade UNM this week, delving into medieval Spain and the three cultures that once ruled the Iberian peninsula during the University’s Institute for Medieval Studies 16th annual spring lecture series.
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