A UNM sociology professor studying community policing said filling the streets with police is not necessarily the answer to fighting crime. Professor Richard Wood said, although more police working at once can help fight crime, the best way is for police to build a bond with the communities they serve.
A panel of experts played a game of verbal tug of war at the UNM School of Law Wednesday as they discussed the ethics of capital punishment. Professor Robert Schwartz served as the moderator of the four-person panel discussion.Schwartz said the group offered two opposing views on the death penalty - those who believe it should never be applied and those who believe it should be applied only under particular circumstances.
Threats, apologies, disagreements, accusations and appropriation bills filled Wednesday night's ASUNM Senate meeting. Finance chairman Sen. Grant Nichols said some student organizations lost 15 percent of their Associated Students of UNM funding
UNM’s Office of International Programs and Studies is sponsoring a forum on improving New Mexico’s role in international education Friday at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Harvard University professor Michael Herzfeld will deliver the 12th Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Last night’s drizzle and cold weather didn’t stop about 200 students from searching in the dark for broken lights, tripping hazards and overgrown shrubs during the Spring Campus Safety Walk. The bi-annual event, now in its sixth year, is sponsored by a variety of campus organizations and departments. Students break up into about 30 groups and scan different University zones for dangerous areas that could be improved, then they fill out questionnaires based on their observations.
SANTA FE - Thanks to a booming surplus, students who have been lobbying to expand funding for the state's lottery scholarship may soon get their wish. A group of 50 UNM students joined their peers statewide at the Roundhouse during Student Day at the Legislature Monday to lobby for support of using all state lottery revenue to back the Lottery to Success Scholarship.
Joel Goldman knows first-hand that mixing alcohol and sex can be dangerous. Goldman, who found out that he was HIV positive in 1992, gave his presentation, "Sex Under the Influence,"
When Robert Lafarge was 12 years old, he was told he would be in a wheelchair for a long time, but that didn’t stop him from doing what he wanted.
UNM fraternity and sorority members will sing, dance, attend seminars and compete in sporting events during Greek Week to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. For the next five days, the groups will compete against each other while raising money to help the foundation, which serves the needs of children who are HIV-positive.
Phi Delta Phi, a graduate student organization that promotes professionalism and ethics in the legal field, is sponsoring Ethics Week today through Friday at the UNM Law School.
SANTA FE — More than 400 people gathered at the Eldorado Hotel Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the UNM School of Medicine and honor former state Sen. Fabian Chavez, who was instrumental in establishing the school.
The UNM School of Medicine will celebrate its 40th anniversary with some distinguished guests in Santa Fe today.
Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert told a large group of UNM students Thursday that it is their responsibility to fight hate and intolerance.
Members of Students Educating Peers About Sex are seeking support to keep the student organization afloat because the Student Health Center cut all ties with the group Feb. 10. UNM student Jeremy Jaramillo, Students Educating Peers About Sex president, accused representatives of the Student Health Center of forcefully taking over the program, firing employees and unfairly removing it from its health center offices. “They were taking over all of our daily activities, changing all our forms, changing our recruitment forms, changing our mission and we were compromising a lot with them,” he said.
Undergraduate students from throughout New Mexico will head to Santa Fe Monday to lobby legislators for support on key student issues, including funding of the state’s Lottery to Success Scholarship.
People Living Through Cancer, the Intercultural Cancer Council and UNM's African American Studies Department are working together to present "Speaking with One Voice," a forum addressing the unequal burden of cancer on minorities and the poor.
Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert will be speaking on campus today at 3:30 p.m. about his experiences fleeing Nazi Germany. first floor of Mesa Vista Hall.
UNM has suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity through the fall semester for its role in taping a swastika to the roof of a black student’s car that was illegally parked in the fraternity’s lot.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said Tuesday that despite the budget surplus, Congress is still not willing to pay for higher education needs because it’s not considered a top priority.
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