The Board of Regents ruled Tuesday that employees making less than $50,000 per year will be eligible for a bonus. Employees haven’t been eligible for a recurring pay raise in three years, and this year saw a 1.75 percent decrease in what they’re required to pay into their retirement funds.
GetEQUAL, a grassroots organization that works to change anti-LGBTQ sentiments, protested Chick-fil-A on campus outside the bookstore on Tuesday.
Oct. 1 — Occupy Albuquerque protesters marched along Central Avenue in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
Protesters still occupied campus grounds as of late Monday night, Police showed up at midnight Sunday and told protesters they had to leave.
The sound of drums echoed across campus Monday as UNM’s Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group celebrated “Indigenous Day.” NASIRG co-chair and student Alyssa Begay said the group organized Indigenous Day events as an alternative to the nationally recognized Columbus Day.
I would like to offer some reasons for why I support the Occupy Albuquerque and Occupy Wall Street protesters across the country, and why I would like to see everyone in this community support them financially and thank them. I hope the movement grows and strengthens. Wall Street and corporate America, as has been reported many times, are rolling in money.
Editor, When did UNM become no better than a banana republic, hiding behind the buzzword of “safety” and lurking behind proper permits? Sure, Karen Wentworth can hide behind University policy as justification for the removal of the protesters, but weren’t the protesters camping out on University property the whole week before?
Thinking about getting inked? You can expo-lore your options this weekend. This year’s Rock the Ink expo, the Día de los Muertos edition, is the fourth time Paul and Irene Zukoski have put on the event.
El Chante: Casa de Cultura is an art gallery and boutique that fuses local poetry, music, art and New Mexican culture.
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At least 20 UNM and state police officers showed up at midnight Sunday with plastic zip handcuffs and canine units and informed the 30-40 Occupy Albuquerque protesters on campus they would have to leave the University.
Protestors outside UNM Bookstore on Saturday chanted “Tax the rich, end the war” in honor of the tenth anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan war.
Twenty-five runners braved the cold Saturday morning to participate in the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity’s first annual Autism Awareness Run at Tiguex Park.
Spend time in any online chat room or try to have a conversation about social change and a common trait of our species becomes evident. Pessimistic comments on our shared political and economic disaster dominate the interaction: nothing can change, we’re headed inevitably toward some sort of corporate state, welcome to the machine, resistance is useless, the list goes on. People get on their soapboxes at that point to tell everyone they saw it coming.
Editor, In Wednesday’s letter, “Media had no evidence al-Awlaki was a terrorist,” Muhajir Romero made several accusations about the Western media lying about al-Awlaki being a terrorist. I think Mr. Romero needs to get his facts straight.
Editor, Bill O’Reilly has said that he believes the moon is not the result of a collision of a meteor with Earth, but that it is a special creation of God.
The UNM swim and dive team opened its season with a victory against the Air Force Academy on Saturday. UNM, which only has a women’s swim and dive team, defeated the Falcons with an overall score of 167-133.
Saturday night may have been windy and chilly, but the UNM women’s soccer team fought through it and beat UNLV 1-0. Senior Jennifer Williams got to celebrate her birthday Saturday by scoring the only goal of the night in the 10th minute.
The UNM men’s soccer team is once again among the nation’s elite programs. In the last few years, the Lobos have had some great team lineups but have not lived up to their hype.
In the fifth and final set against San Diego State, the UNM volleyball team needed just one more point to take the win, but it came too late. The Lobos lost by 16-25, 25-23, 27-25, 21-25, 15-17 Sunday afternoon at Johnson Center, after having five consecutive match-points go to waste.
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