It’s nice to know that in difficult economic times, UNM administration, headed by President Bob Frank, is looking out for UNM students by planning to offer more “amenities.” Whew.
With the fact that time limits are placed and then holds for payment when the incomes from FAFSA can’t be accessed makes it impossible for anyone to return to school. Being thrown out of the college of fine arts made me realize that, for the third time, this college needs more than revision. With the billions of students that have received Lottery and other means of help while most of us paying students with limited incomes come to a fuddy duddy place with weird situations to encounter things like theft and other complications in the theater dept. It would be advisable that this whole college be transitioned to a better place of learning for the monies that we are paying for them. What is taught is not sufficient to some of us to pass the tests and it isn’t our ability to study, but the distractions of outer concerns and having to back track to finding the mysterious occurrences.
Editor, Did you know UNM charges graduate tuition for undergraduate level classes taken as a prerequisite to a graduate class?
Editor, I think it’s just great that there will be three more white males on UNM’s Board of Regents. That will really help diversify this group so that it will better reflect New Mexico’s population. Way to go, Governor Martinez.
Editor, Where does good-natured humor leave off and barbed insult begin? Once more we have killings by Muslims, this time in France. This was at the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo. It turns out the shooters were offended by the all that satire, caricature and lampooning of Islam and its prophet.
In this year's campaign for the Public Regulation Commission, candidate Lynda Lovejoy ran unopposed yet accepted and spent $26,000 of public financing on her campaign. If it sounds like a rat, looks like a rat, acts like a rat, it must be a rat.
The recent deaths of senior criminology major Matthew Grant and junior business administration major Briana Hillard have brought together the UNM community in a way that is rarely seen. Moments like these show how much of an effect we can have on others.
It wasn’t that long ago when the decision between going to the University Hospital (UNMH) and some of the other options (Lovelace or Presbyterian) for a UNM employee was a no-brainer: If you had to get major surgery or had a major illness, you went to UNMH, you paid out $150 and that was the end of it.
I got to attend the Lobo/Aggies game Wednesday night, and although the game was great, my experience ... not so much. Recently the naming rights to the Pit were sold to WisePies, a local (yes, they’re local) pizza joint, and now their name is sprawled all over the Pit floor. Not only is their name on the floor, but Bank of Albuquerque’s and Verizon’s are, too. The Pit floor is starting to look more like a billboard than a basketball court.
WisePies has purchased naming rights to The Pit. So now, it’s the “Pizza Pit.” Great. Now the rawest building in the state alliterates with bummy sandwiches. You know what else could have paid for the renovation? Abolishing the football team. I’m not sure how this would have affected women’s sports teams with regard to Title IX, but on the flip side, why not just fund them anyway?
Before anyone calls me “anti-teacher,” let me say that I have a degree in education, my daughter is at UNM majoring in education, and I believe the starting pay of teachers in New Mexico should be $5,000 to $10,000 higher. With that said, I have to give credit to the APS school board for delaying a final decision on paying teachers for days they are absent while serving as state legislators. Granted, legislators are not paid a salary.
If the United States wants fewer immigrants, it needs to work for justice for the millions of poor and working people in other nations. Instead, the U.S. government routinely and deliberately sides with the filthy rich to rob and kill the poor. Many immigrants flee here from war, persecution and severe poverty caused largely by the U.S. Many immigrants would prefer to stay in their native lands if living conditions there greatly improved.
I see hundreds of people on my way to class every week, and I try to smile, tip my hat or at least nod to anyone who walks by. Only rarely do I get any sort of response. More often than not, folks simply ignore me. Most people walk right on by, too busy sulking to acknowledge another human being crossing their path. I’m not going to stop doing it, though. As disappointed as I am with humanity, I still enjoy human interaction — and besides, I’m just trying to be polite. I mean, is it really that difficult to connect with another human being — even for a split-second? I can accept that kids are under a lot more stress than when I was growing up, and people are extremely busy nowadays. Others are not so kind, however.
Got a problem with the WisePies Arena name for UNM’s basketball venue? Get used to it. If this deal runs through the length of the agreement, the fedora-clad logo will be on the building for the next 10 years.
Editor, Trayvon Martin was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, on a Sunday night, Feb. 26, 2012.
Editor, As a freshman attending the University of New Mexico, I am required to have a meal plan and eat at the main dining hall, La Posada.
Editor, With the way technology is nowadays, it seems like more and more people are going paperless.
Editor, On Nov. 25 more than 300 citizens of Albuquerque collectively decided to take to the streets to disrupt business-as-usual in the wake of the decision denying young Michael Brown justice. Protesters marched peacefully between San Mateo and Yale Boulevard. Brown was assassinated by the killer cop Darren Wilson and left in the street for four hours in a way that horribly traumatized friends, families and onlookers. The police in all cities act as a cartel or gang in that they are always sending a message about their capability to inflict violence and death.
Dear Dr Peg, Some friends introduced me to hookah smoking a few months ago, and we've been getting together to smoke a couple of times a week. It;s fun to hang out, and the smoke smells nice. I know cigarette smoking is dangerous, so I've never done it, but hookah smoking is safe, right? Doesn't the water filter out all the bad stuff from the smoke? And isn't hookah tobacco healthier than the tobacco in cigarettes? -Hooked on hookah
Editor, Sexual violence is a very serious issue, and I can say with confidence that many would agree that all survivors deserve healing, hope and love.
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