An Albuquerque man has been charged with vehicular homicide that resulted in the death of a UNM student. Jacob Salazar, a freshman mechanical engineering major on a full academic scholarship, was killed in January during a car accident while driving on Coors Boulevard and Las Estancias Court.
As the New Mexico Dream Team (NMDT) and as a chapter based in the University of New Mexico (UNM), we want to take a formal stance against the participation of the U.S Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) during Career Services Fair. As a statewide organization, we fight for the dignity and equality of all families, regardless of immigration status. As students of UNM, we value education and define it beyond a title or diploma. To us, an education is an avenue towards achieving our dreams and honoring our community.
The competition for Fight for Fiestas 2016 came to a head Tuesday night when the judges finally announced the winning band. Five groups, each specializing in a different genre, were given 15 minutes on stage to impress the judges and more importantly, the audience for a spot in Fiestas de Albuquerque, a festival held every spring.
A short week to get readjusted to Land of Enchantment is in store for New Mexico as the team prepares for its home opener against Wichita State this weekend. The Lobos (3-1) took home its first series in Hawaii since 1985 on Monday, but the players are still reeling from jet lag after arriving back in Albuquerque on Tuesday.
The US Supreme Court decisions that Justice Antonin Scalia championed included those that clearly reflected his bias as a self-proclaimed "devout Catholic," rationalizing his inimical philosophy as originalist when interpreting the Constitution by siding with regressive Christianists in decision after decision, legislative history be damned.
The Institute for Design and Innovation recently unveiled some of the cutting edge work being done at UNM to increase student success in the long run. These developments come in the form of analytic tools, developed by IDI, working in conjunction with compiled data to present higher education outcomes. The tools have various functions across higher education and are meant for use by students, faculty, advisers, administrators and decision makers in NM.
After rolling into town on the “Bernie Bus” provided to them by the Progressive Democrats of America, members of National Nurses United set up shop outside of the SUB this week. Only they weren’t selling things, they were literally giving them away. From beanies and buttons to bumper stickers endorsing democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, there was no shortage of Bernie-brand goods being distributed by the Nurses 4 Bernie in Cornell Mall on Tuesday.
It came down to the final shot, but New Mexico’s hopes of upsetting No. 25 Colorado State at WisePies Arena on Wednesday night were dashed with senior Khadijah Shumpert’s last second miss. The Lobos outscored the top team in the conference in the first and final quarter of the contest, but the squad’s offensive lull in the middle quarters of the game gave CSU (25-1, 15-0 MW) the advantage it needed in what resulted in a 49-48 thriller.
The determination Vince McMahon has to get Roman Reigns over with the crowd is just amazing. No matter how much the WWE fans reject Reigns, it just seems to give McMahon more motivation to try to prove that Reigns is indeed what the fans want. If Monday’s Raw was any indication, Reigns isn’t anywhere close to being the company’s top baby face.
The Agora Crisis Center has a hotline that takes calls on issues like domestic violence, LGBT issues, rape and suicide. One of the people working for the crisis center hotline is Julia Garcia, a nursing student who offers time out of her busy schedule to help others who are struggling. "Through Agora, you do a month long training that is really intense, but only one day was focused on suicide," Garcia said. "So I did another set of training regiments to get the Suicide First Aid certification so that I could intervene in suicide cases."
New Mexico hadn’t won a series in Hawai’i in over 20 years. That streak came to a halt during UNM’s 7-1 victory over the Rainbow Warriors on Monday. The victory was the final in a four game stint against Hawai’i as the Lobos improved to 3-1 to begin their season.
Another road trip, another two losses for New Mexico. The Lobos’ woes away from WisePies Arena continued Tuesday night in an 86-69 loss at Colorado State in Fort Collins, Colorado. The latest setback marked the 10th loss outside Albuquerque’s city limits, including seven losses in true road games.
Saying that Colorado State has not fared well at WisePies Arena would be an understatement. In Albuquerque, the Rams have tallied only a single win at the mile-high venue dating back to 1998. However, this year, CSU (24-1, 14-0 MW) has remained unscathed in conference play and has rallied off 21 consecutive wins. Oh, and the Rams have joined the nation’s top 25 because of it.
A UNM professor visited the White House to brief Vice President Joe Biden's staff on new developments in cancer research. Cheryl Willman, a distinguished professor of pathology and internal medicine at the UNM School of Medicine, was part of a five member delegation that visited Washington D.C. about the progress of The Total Cancer Care/Oncology Research Information Exchange Network consortium that spoke about advancements in the field of precision medicine, the importance of speeding up development of more effective personalized cancer treatments and the need for sharing scientific data.
A selection of local bands will battle it out for victory at the annual Fight for Fiestas on Tuesday night in the SUB Ballroom for the honor of playing live at Fiestas in April. The battle features bands spanning multiple genres such as rock, hip-hop, metal, electronic dance music, jazz and more. Fight for Fiestas is organized by ASUNM, specifically by Student Special Events and spearheaded by SSE Cultural Director Tatiana Solis. “In preparation for our big music festival, we have a battle of the bands, Fight For Fiestas, where UNM students who play music can audition to compete," she said. “In this competition, the crowd, along with the SSE directors, votes for who they think is the best. The winner gets a slot in playing during Fiestas.”
The old adage "don’t take it personally" doesn’t resonate with Linda Schenkel, program manager for the Department of Psychiatry at UNM. And since she was recently named a recipient of the UNM’s Staff Council Outstanding Supervisor award, she might be on to something. Schenkel, one of 10 children and a mother of two, said she believes the most important aspect of supervision is the development of fair, personal relationships with each of her staff members. “It’s really important to get to know them,” she said. “Every employee wants to be heard.”
The New Mexico men’s tennis team got blanked by Columbia on Friday, but bounced back to earn a split on Saturday in Pennsylvania. Columbia jumped all over the Lobos on Friday, winning the first two doubles matches to garner the point for doubles competition. Columbia’s Richard Pham and Shawn Hadavi got by the reunited duo of Hayden Sabatka and Bart Van Leijsen, 6-2, followed by the pair of Miguel Alda and Eric Rubin, who defeated Jorge Escutia and Ricky Hernandez-Tong, 6-4.
On April 20th, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado, two eighteen year old high school seniors named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School and slaughtered 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves in a new, unprecedented kind of crime. According to an NBC report on 20/20 with Diane Sawyer that aired Feb. 12th, there have been upwards of 270 school shootings since Columbine, two of which occurred just this past month in Miami and Phoenix.
Amid a personal struggle between health issues and realizing his own creative vision, artist Aaron Trumm has worked relentlessly over the past 25 years to see his musical ideas come to life. Beginning in the early ‘90s, Trumm studied at UNM under the guidance of music department faculty member Manny Rettinger. At UNM, Trumm worked at Rettinger’s UBIK Studio as a production assistant, and with KNME as an in-house audio engineer. In his free time Trumm would fix up UNM’s basement studio, known then as the “elephant boneyard,” and record his first two solo albums.
It is often difficult to pinpoint exactly why student fees increase from one semester to the next. I too become quite confused when navigating my bursars account. On Friday, February 11, the Regents authorized the refinancing and refunding of previously issued institutional bonds while also authorizing administration to purchase additional bonds, generating approximately $55 million dollars for the University. Why, you may ask? After years of planning and discussion, both administration and student leadership came to the agreement that some of our facilities are behind the times
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