Editor, I was very disappointed to learn that President Frank failed to honor an agreement that he made with the ASUNM and GPSA presidents and removed over $5 million of student fees from the purview of the Student Fee Review Board without their knowledge. I think it shows a tremendous amount of disrespect ...
Editor, We are writing with extreme concern about President Bob Frank’s plans to induct a new Student Cabinet. We support increased student participation in important decision-making. In fact, this issue has been at the forefront of our demands to make the administration accountable to student concerns.
Editor, At great risk of losing popularity, and in response to your May 7 front page article entitled “ASUNM parking summit gives drivers a voice,” let me suggest that rather than adding more parking spaces at UNM, we need less. It should be painful to park at UNM for the vast majority ...
Editor, I want to thank UNM professor David Correia for being out on the front lines of social progress for us in the community. As an alumni of UNM, it makes me proud to see one of my fellow faculty leading the movement for justice. I saw the statement from the UNM administration dissociating themselves ...
Love. It’s something that we all want, but sometimes cannot find. I have spent the past year filling the Daily Lobo with stories about my search for love, my failure to find it and subsequent nights spent with boxed wine and friends.
Students said price, efficiency and crowding were their chief concerns with the parking and transportation system at UNM. Sophia Gruskos, a senior psychology major, said she chooses to park off campus because of the price of on-campus parking and because the parking meters on campus where she would park only allow payment by card.
On April 28, the UNM Police Department responded to a report of burglary at the Lomas Parking Structure, according to a police report.
A new UNM website aims to connect students with faculty who can provide research opportunities on campus. Research Match will help students find research positions based on their major and interests, said Kiyoko Simmons, director of the Center for Academic Excellence and Leadership Development.
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and Parking and Transportation Services are collaborating to incorporate student voices on the University’s parking availability. Jenna Hagengruber, ASUNM senator and vice-president elect, said when she was elected to the Senate, her most immediate goal was to communicate with PATS about the student complaints she heard regarding a perceived lack of parking and the fines incurred from citations.
The opportunity to compete for a national golf championship is right around the corner for the New Mexico men’s and women’s teams. The Lobo women will play in the NCAA West Regional tournament starting Thursday at the Tumble Creek Club in Cle Elum, Washington.
New Mexico announced the signing of forward Tohi Smith-Milner to a national letter of intent Wednesday. Smith-Milner comes to UNM from New Zealand’s Rosmini College, where he propelled the team to a national championship in 2011.
First, I want to say how proud and encouraged I am by the students who have formed #OurUNM. They are trailblazers who have chosen to look corporate greed in the eye and ask for an accounting. Right now, they are the only reason I am proud to be a Lobo.
In response to today’s headline, “Protesters hijack City Council meeting:” When will the media stop portraying protesters exercising their civil rights as terrorists? And in response to other media accounts that have described the meeting as “descending into chaos:” What is “chaos” and what is “order?”
There is apparently an interesting paradox at the University of New Mexico. On the one hand, a group of students without understanding of the Middle East and the majority of whom have never been there have decided to divest from the State of Israel. The groups are deciding the ‘correct’ borders for the democratic, successful economy of the Jewish State of Israel.
Protesters commandeered the Albuquerque City Council meeting Monday in a bid to highlight a perceived lack of accountability among city officials. The Albuquerque Government Center was shut down and cleared around 6:30 p.m.
A summer camp associated with UNM is offering University students the opportunity to work with kids and teens with who have been diagnosed with autism.
In the light of another shooting death involving Albuquerque police, protesters stormed the Albuquerque City Council meeting. Here is a social media curation of the events.
As students approach the home stretch of the semester, a nice distraction can go a long way in alleviating stress, especially when that distraction is free.
There’s that platitude that tells us to dance like no one’s watching. I write as if no one’s reading. This is not to say that I write without consequence or responsibility. On the contrary, integrity as a writer is the single most important thing to me.
Professor Brian Soller has concluded that not all teen romances lead to happy endings. In his recent sociological study, Soller found that the discrepancy between ideal romantic relationships and real romantic relationships puts some female teens at higher risk for depression, he said.
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